To think there should be a law stopping cars from parking on public streets

[Warriorsoftheworld]

Went on a long journey with DP today through quite a few villages with small winding roads the roads are supposed to be split into 2 one sides obviously but most of thses roads could only have 1 side of the road used because inconsiderate people in the houses had parked their cars in the road blocking the entire left side so cars had to take turns crossing around them on the right side i think you should only own a car if you have somewhere to park it off road like a driveway or garage its a health and safety risk with cars trying not to smash into each other winding around these parked cars and people trying to cross safely its like buying a horse and not having a stable to keep it in imo there should be some sort of law as well as yellow lines to stop this happening

cars trying not to smash into each other

Sounds like an unusual number of bad drivers going far too fast if effort was required to avoid smashing into one another. I very rarely have to try particularly hard to avoid smashing into other cars on the road.

Although maybe one of the villages was mine. People who cut through do seem to have lower than average driving skills, and a higher than average opinion of how fast is appropriate on narrow, winding roads. They could always use the main roads and then go as fast as they like.

So, OP, you're suggesting that people in pretty little villages, quite often with no useful public transport, shouldn't own cars if their cute wee victorian terrace wasn't built with off road parking or a garage.

Ooooooookay.

Mine's a Jammie Dodger

I wonder why the OP has done a runner . . .

I live semi rurally just outside a fair size town that was built on mining and the cotton mills. It is just streets and streets of terraced houses, some back to back so no actually back alley either, do you honestly think it would be fair to ban all those people from owning cars?

And what is it with all the fucking parking and right of way threads, today?

It's like variations on a theme of unreasonableness.

What about people who live in flats?

Have you ever seen the old black-and-white pictures of those baby cages they used to attach to the sides of American buildings so that babies from families without gardens could get some sunshine?

They could come up with something similar for car-owning flat-dwellers.

None of the houses in my street have driveways, or even a space for a drive way. Whats your wonderful suggestion now? I think there should be a law against people using 150 words in the same sentence.

Oh no usual I have a car and a drive but there is a bus-stop outside and that means the plebs use my road. If you have not got a car you should just stay at home. Special transport to get you to and from your work - without windows of course so you can't look out at the world where the proper people live.

We share a biggish drive with our neighbours. If this law comes into force we will be happy to accommodate the cars of two flat-dwelling MNetters.

As long as they promise not to smash into one another obviously.

Ha! Not just where do they park at home, but what about when they get to their destination? Do we all need to park in a car park, and when they are full, give up and go home(unless we have no off road parking, in which case drive to the nearest scrap merchants)?

My little Victorian cottage doesn't have a garage or driveway. I'll just tell my NDN to budge their car along a bit some can squeeze into their driveway, shall I? And never drive anywhere unless there is a suitable NCP car park so I'm off road and not spoiling your journey.
Pfffft!

None of the houses in my street have driveways, or even a space for a drive way.

Mine either, and I have to say my greatest concern, as I lug child and shopping and pregnant self from wherever I've managed to park, is the fact that a driver may have to wait five seconds for their turn to drive down my road. The poor, disadvantaged bastards.

Fuck no, can't have all the now car less people cluttering up the roads on buses, or the pavements waiting for them. Don't mistake me, dear tarquinella loves to point at the poor people who can't even afford basics like homes with parking for several Chelsea tractors, but one doesn't want them walking about instead and passing on their poverty.

I think there should be a law against people using 150 words in the same sentence.

I'll offer a few .........................................

Keep the oiks from getting in one's way

Another Goady thread....

Try living in a busy city!

FFS I have never read such a lot of entitled bollox in my life!
So OP where do you suggest people who live in that road park to allow you to drive your barbie bus through their lovely village?
Please stop and engage brain before posting crap!

Goady thread is goady.

We have two cars and no driveway, so perhaps we should be first against the wall come the revolution.

Then again, maybe I can offer to teach you some punctuation skills, OP, in exchange for our lives?

A full stop looks like this .
A comma looks like this ,
A biscuit for your goady unreasonableness looks like this

OP this may surprise you but there are whole areas of Britain where the road is only wide enough for ONE car and you have to use passing places whenever you meet someone, sometimes reversing up hills and round corners to find one.

YABU.

I think that someone who has a driving licence should be capable of handling a common scenario like having to navigate around cars parked legally at the side of the road.

If it's actually dangerous, or excessively obstructive, for cars to park at the side of a particular road, then I'm pretty sure that the local councils have the power to get double yellow lines painted at the sides of the road.