To not know why mn has an issue with parking on the pavement?

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I have my driveway but the street I live in is quite long (has 3 postcodes) and there's always cars parked along the pavements.

I see it everywhere.

Who honestly has never parked on a pavement?

Why is it such an issue?

Mobility scooters!

It's only an issue if they are parked so far on the pavement I can't get my twins through the gap in their pram or if they are parked too close to a driveway so it's unsafe for cars to pull off the driveway onto the road because they can't see.

I have literally never parked on a pavement.

In all the years you've been driving and gone to see a friend, family member or gone to a shop that has no car park .... you've never parked on a pavement?

I also don't understand why people want to bump their cars up and down the kerb

Don't most people use the drop and then drive up.

My dad is blind. He has hurt himself countless times thanks to inconsiderate drivers parking on pavements, people keeping wheelie bins on the pavement instead of pulling them in to their gardens, etc.

YABU.

I should have been more specific in my OP. Clearly I'm not referring to dangerous driving, such a parking too close to a turning.

I'm also not referring to cars blocking access for wheelchairs, pushchairs etc.

I'm asking what's the problem with parking on a pavement if pedestrians can still walk by easily.

I also very very rarely see an entire car parked on a pavement. Most are half on half off so there's generally plenty of room left.

Try pushing an adult in a wheelchair along a pavement full of parked cars. You will never need to wonder why ever again

Hth

"In all the years you've been driving and gone to see a friend, family member or gone to a shop that has no car park .... you've never parked on a pavement?"

Yup.

Park a little further away and walk, when necessary.

Every single fucking day I have to take my kids into the road to pass cars parked on our road. Every day I see other residents take their wheel chairs and mobility scooters into the road. The road on which it is perfectly legal to park but the selfish arseholes still choose to park on the pavement. If the road isn't wide enough don't park there.

The other day I honestly almost started a thread as to why anyone would ever park on a pavement.

My dad is blind. He has hurt himself countless times thanks to inconsiderate drivers parking on pavements, people keeping wheelie bins on the pavement instead of pulling them in to their gardens, etc.

I sympathise of course, but with wheelie bins people don't always get chance to put them away until they finish work.

Also if your dad has hurt himself countless times are there no protective precautions in place to help him?

Park a little further away and walk, when necessary

Park where exactly?

I visit my friend all the time. Her car fills her driveway. The nearest car park would take me 45 minutes to walk from.

Some twonk near me has taken to occasionally parking fully on the pavement near me - on a route used by numerous school children and elderly with mobility aids.

But it's ok coz we can all tramp through the wet muddy grass verge (extra slippy in snowy weather) to get past

Protective precautions such as not parking on the pavement?

He use a white stick, but the point is the cars shouldn't be there in the first place and he doesn't anticipate them being there.

The bin issue isn't people that get their bins in late on collection day, but people who leave them on the pavement permanently.

catch there is a long road where I walk where there is no dropped kerb and people just bounce up and down. There is a large car park on the opposite side which makes it even more bizarre.

Possibly because Rule 244 of the Highway Code states that you may only park wholly it partially on the pavement if there are signs telling you this is allowed, and never in London.

Because:

a) People can't get past with buggies, wheelchairs or even kids who need to hold hands. Even more frustrating when the gap you've left has a big turd smeared across it.

b) Pavements aren't designed to take a tonne or more of weight in one place and end up full of bloody pot holes.

If you think the road is good enough for my disabled child, then it's almost definitely good enough for your precious car.

Until the councils knock down all the terraced houses, build new ones with off road parking and widen the streets in the process you will always have this problem. I live just outside a northern town that has loads of Victorian terraced houses built long before the motor car was invented. There isn't enough parking provision and most of the house owners have a car.

I wouldn't buy a house without off road parking, but not everyone is as fortunate as we are.

I'm not condoning parking across the pavement, but painting a picture of the reality of living in a terraced house with no parking.

Someone died a few years ago from a heart attack because the ambulance couldn't get down the road die to parked cars.

And you know, it's not so bad with a small child in a buggy, if there is room (and if you've left an only just big enough gap, yes I would squeeze past), but wheelchairs are often wider and big kids in SN buggies are heavy, which means having to go back and fund some dropped kerb which isn't blocked and use that to get into the road, so it's more than just your car that people have to travel along the road for - then some other twat drives along the road impatiently, wondering why the fuck they're having to wait for pedestrians who are taking up their road and shouting abuse.

And since then was "everyone does it" a good reason to do anything. How about thinking outside the box and putting yourself in the shoes of the people you inconvenience. Even the potholes you leave are a PITA for someone in a wheelchair/large buggy and can cause them to tip over.

Who are these people who park on the pavement?
Where?

I wouldn't want to, but if I did i would get a ticket in minutes.
It's illegal unless indicated.

Absolutely I'm going to ram past your car if it's a choice between that or taking my kids into oncoming traffic. If you care so much about your car, park it appropriately. Funnily enough I have far more attachment to my children than to some selfish stranger's car!

And for anyone who's never seen a car parked with four wheels on the pavement I can start a daily gallery of parking twattery just from my walk to school and work.

I'm asking what's the problem with parking on a pavement if pedestrians can still walk by easily

Most people who park on pavements will claim that pedestrians can still walk by easily, however this in often not the case. They might have left room enough for a person walking by, but not wheelchairs, or double buggies etc.

I'm also happy to post up pictures from tomorrow's school run where we will have to go into the road multiple times due to cars blocking the pavement.

My particular favourite is the woman near to the school who parks her car entirely on the pavement, all four wheels, right across her empty fucking driveway. Then there is the person we refer to as "that four by four dickhead" who parks on the corner where the lollipop man is, blocking the pavement so that you have to go around their car and into the busy road in order for the lollipop man to see you across said busy road. The driver has been told countless times by parking enforcement, the school and the lollipop man but apparently there is no cure for being a selfish prick because he still parks there. Heaven forbid his children (coincidentally, they're also entitled little snowflakes) should have to walk an extra ten feet to get into school.

I am endlessly fascinated with the fact that people are not able to see past their own circumstances. So many posters here firmly believe that if pavement parking is twatty and perfectly avoidable in their own, it must be so everywhere across the land.

I live in a very narrow terraced street where most houses don't have driveways and everyone parks on the pavement. There is not alternative parking as all the other streets around are just the same. I am currently massively pregnant to the point that I cannot squeeze past the cars on the pavement. When my baby is born, I will have to take the buggy out on the road as the cars are taking up much of the pavement. But hey, I am also looking on the bright side: my car is also one of those parked on the pavement. In the absence of decent public transport, this affords me the luxury of having a car, especially now when I can hardly walk. I am also planning a home birth and am extremely happy that an ambulance will be able to get to my house in an emergency because all my sensible neighbours parked on the pavement. Something tells me that all other buggy users and disabled people who live in my area think similarly. Not being able to use a pavement is a pain, but in our town the alternative is much worse.