A parking one with pics.

[Robstersgirl]

Neighbour has parked his car on the pavement facing the traffic on our extremely busy road for 2 days now. I have to reverse in from the road to my dropped kerb drive. No fucker on the road can see me. Neighbour thinks this is fine. It’s double yellow lines on the road? AIBU to think this is pure CF?

Double yellows include any pavement or area that isn't private land.

I discovered this when parking my motorbike outside a shop in what I thought was a parking space. It went shopfront, tarmac space of about a small car length, flagged pavement, kerb with double yellows adjacent.

I appealed my ticket, and lost. If the tarmac had belonged to the shop I would have been fine but because it was owned by the council it was classed as pavement too and my ticket was valid. Shop owner was very pissed off as a lot of his customers used to park there but loads ended up getting ticketed and when word got around he lost a fair bit of passing trade.

Similar happened to a friend of mine who used to park his bike on the pavement behind some bollards at Manchester Uni. There it was building wall, space about 2-3 feet wide under an overhang of the building, concrete bollards, pavement about 10 feet wide, kerb with double yellows alongside. He thought the bollards marked the start of the Uni's private land but they didn't, turned out they were purely decorative.

Ring the council, they will send a warden out to ticket him.

If it's the road I think it is, my parents are further up it on the same side, also just after a bend. How the hell are they parking that way round? If it's the road I know, it's 30 mph but because of the 4 lanes people think it's a dual carriageway and drive like idiots. Ring the council, as that road is an absolute death trap as everyone drives so fast! Also there are no options to walk in the road, unless you want to take your life into your own hands. I'm sure they've been parking like that for a while, at least the road I'm thinking of (just before the bridge...) always seems to have at least one car on that pavement when I've been down it.

I say ring the council, but if you are where I think you are, that's a mean feat as they have no one answering the phones. The police might be more successful as they are potentially going to cause an accident.

HackedOffSeller Yes that’s the one! I’ve seen 10 RTA’s in the 5 years I’ve lived here it’s such a dangerous road, there’s 3 cameras along the road so people just speed up between them.

Ring the council and highways - he's an idiot. Where does he normally park?

Parked by a double yellow.
Parked on the path.
Parked facing the wrong way
All three are offences. Contact the council. There are reasons for these rules.

I remember even as a small child having to reach for the phone to ring and ask for the police and ambulance as there were so many accidents along that road. So many times my parents had to rebuild the wall outside their house, and the house a few doors down had to rebuild the whole front of their house after someone went through it! I think the police would be quite supporrive as they know what that road is like.

Report NDN to the police. It’s illegal to park on a path next to double yellows. He is causing a hazard.