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?

Depends on the path. I park partly on the path outside my house, as do all my neighbours. It's an old road, now major truck road, with strangely wide pavements. You could actually park totally on the path and still leave room for the widest double buggy to pass. I use a double buggy as a guide of width because I remember having to push one around streets and would often have to go onto the road to get round cars. People need to be considerate of others.

I will occasionally have 2 wheels up just on the kerb if I have to but if it doesn't leave enough space for a double buggy then I drive on and park in another Street. Why? Because I'm not a cunt. Hate people taking up the fucking pavement and then giving you dirty looks for daring to walk on it. I wouldn't deliberately damage a car but certainly won't go out of my way to avoid it. If there's not enough space and it gets scraped, that really isn't my problem.

There's a large Victorian housing estate near where I live. Nobody parks on the kerbs, but the local council have a strict parking permit scheme and it's one per house. I have been forced to walk out onto a main road with my very young child in their buggy. All because someone decided to be selfish. It wasn't a case of a lack of parking, just stupid laziness.

I think there are more than one issue with pavement parking. There are occasions where cars parked on pavements do no cause an obstruction. However l have a huge issue with the slow erosion of pavements being safe places for me and my children to walk on. After all vehicles drive on and off the pavement to park. My concern is where does it stop with rising car ownership? it's not illegal to park on pavements as long as vehicles don't cause an obstruction. Does this mean that every wide enough pavement will be slowly turned into a car park? What will happen then to safe places to walk?

The attitude in the uk that having a car is somehow a human right is ridiculous. I have a licence I don't currently drive. Most of my life I've used public transport and as an army brat I've lived all over the country and mostly in out of the way places (though I've lived in cities too).

Lots of car drivers are lazy and won't walk more than 50 yards if they can help it. Where I live I've seen loads of kids driven to school when they live less than a 10 min walk from school. The local mall is literally across the road from the high street and yet people will shop on high st/mall first then DRIVE ACROSS THE ROAD to the other! And God forbid someone can't park right outside their own front door!

A car, serving licence is a privilege not a human right. Decent human beings consider others including the disabled (and not just wheelchair users), young children and elderly.

It's been said several times but some posters clearly aren't getting it

PAVEMENTS ARE FOR PEDESTRIANS NOT CARS!

I had year of trying to get around with a pushchair and for a few months a wheel chair - all our neighbours could see this yet parked so it was impossible to get past.

Current area is worse so glad passed that stage of pushchairs - it is worse as the have entire cars on pavements - so even single person can not get past.

years not a year - one year would not have felt so bad.

Our neighbours would see us - often stand their watching us have to go into the road - if for once it was not their car complain about others parking then later that day do the same.

It's a matter of common sense, isn't it? If a pavement is 14 acres wide and the road is narrow, then parking on the former is unlikely to be a problem. If the pavement is narrow and the road wide, it's bonkers to park on the former.

The problem comes where you have eejits confronted with a narrow pavement and narrow road, who decide to park on the pavement and obstruct it for everyone. I live just up from a very busy main road where people do this and force pedestrians into traffic, including fast-moving buses. It's unbelievably dangerous and inconsiderate, particularly as it's done just opposite a primary school.

Dear OP - it is very simple. Pavements are for pedestrians.

Roads are for wheeled vehicles.

I have a double buggy and live near a main road. Its our regular walk to shops, softplay etc. I live 10 minutes buggy pushing from our nearest softplay. On one occasion it took me 45 minutes to meet a friend there because I had to double back & find alternate routes so often due to hideous parking.

My dad's in a wheelchair & I always think this is 3 years max for me but imagine never just being able to reliably get somewhere.

The worst is people parking across dropped kerbs. Our kerbs are several inches high, you cant cross anywhere else.

My friend is blind and has a guide dog she often has to walk on the busy road to get past inconsiderate car Parkers.
I think the issue is more the way the cars have been parked badly and its bin day as well there's no way she can get past

Every house on my road has a two car drive, and there's two houses who leave the drive empty and park on the pavement, completely blocking the pavement. Now that's dickish.

Itsissue near my sons school as dickheads park in such a way all the way down the street you have to go half way across the street to see round them.... eventually someone will be killed as these people are twats.

But on the flip side there are some great parking officers by the school who have a field day with these dickheads

I've never parked on a pavement. The local police have recently reminded everyone not to do it and announced a clamp down. It causes lots of problems in villages around here when people park on pavements and pedestrians are forced into the road. Maybe there are places where it isn't a problem but overall it is an issue.

I avoid it as even if every other car on the street is parked with two wheels on the pavement I never know whether it's permitted or not so choose another street. We have a few streets where it's obviously permitted with signs and marked bays but on the other street where all cars do it has no bays but differently patterned pavement. Very confusing

Because it's selfish.

I've nearly scraped paintwork off before as they are hogging the whole pavement.

It's also illegal, so there's that...

So many Internet lawyers here... its NOT illegal to park on the pavement outside of London unless the local authority for the area has prohibited it. HC Rule 244 applies to London only.

Actually its only legal in other areas if signs say it is permitted, NOT if it has been outlawed.
Big difference, and its changing to cover the whole country soon anyway.

Again, it's not illegal. If the Highway Code states MUST NOT, that infers to it being illegal. It states SHOULD NOT, which infers that it is NOT illegal. Clarification here

My cunt of a neighbour's cunt of a son in law always parks his massive car fully on the pavement at the end of their drive, even though there is usually free space to park on the opposite side of the street (regular two car width street, everyone parks one side). If I approach my house from that side, I have to walk up their driveway with kids and dog in order to access the shared path to get to my own house.
Cunt of a neighbour often sees this out his window but it doesn't stop cunt of a son in law being an entitled twat.

One of our horrid neighbours parks like this on the pavement and dropped kerb despite having room on his drive for 3/4 cars. Completely blocking the pathway to the local children's park.
It's lovely having to walk over the boggy grass when it rains