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To think trying to fit a lorry down this street is RIDICULOUS!!!

27 replies

MrDarcyWillBeMine · 06/01/2019 14:56

So DP and I live just off a main road - on the first street of an absoloute warren of city terraced houses! (You know the type which were built before anyone drove or had cars!)

It’s bay parking (painted down either side) tiny winding streets with the actual road only big enough for a 4x4/ small van!

It’s a popular and pricey area of the city so obviously people within the warren are ordering furniture/ large items and the lorries (I mean huge proper lorries) keep trying to get down our street!

Last week DP was on a run of long nights and crashed out in bed trying to rest before going back to work!
Knock on the door- A Next delivery man was stood there! Not the first time this has happened either!!

He’s driven his HUGE lorry half way down our street (due to it being quite quiet) but now can’t get past two cars parked opposite each other (usually the whole street it like this!)

He wanted me to go wake DP to move his (perfectly and properly parked car) so they can fit their giant lorry past!

I stood gawping and pointed out ‘you realise your lorry is nearly twice the width of the road right? Even if you get past you’ll get stuck in the bend around the corner and they’ll be no way out.’

He just shrugged his shoulders!

😲 - where is the common sense? Where????

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MrDarcyWillBeMine · 06/01/2019 14:59

*in fairness- once I took him to the end of the street and showed him the bend he saw my point - but his only other route out had cars parked down both sides.

I moved DP’s car and went back to my cooking - heard him saying - ‘don’t think we can go either way’ to the other guy in the cab as I left!

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NothingOnTellyAgain · 06/01/2019 15:05

Maybe blame the people who live there and know what the streets are like for ordering big stuff for delivery and then expecting some kind of magic

Rather than the drivers who don't know the area or the roads trying to do their job

I think your blaming the wrong people.

NothingOnTellyAgain · 06/01/2019 15:06

There must be ways of getting stuff delivered if you have narrow streets, it's up to the customer who knows a lorry wont fit to get in touch and give info and take it from there if have thought

Greatorb · 06/01/2019 15:10

How do fire engines get down the street?

recklessruby · 06/01/2019 15:11

That sounds like my street OP. Sometimes I can't bear looking at the lorries trying to squeeze down it when our cars are there.

potatoscone · 06/01/2019 15:11

Next delivery man in small lorry or next delivery articulated lorry?

DaphneDiligaf · 06/01/2019 15:13

How do people move in or out then?

MrDarcyWillBeMine · 06/01/2019 15:17

@Great
If a fire engine needed to get access then many cars would get damaged in the process! We are not the worst/smallest/narrowest of the street! A fire truck may just about (depending on how busy it was) get down our street but certainly wouldn’t get down any of the others behind us!

@Potato - oh no it was a huge one! A small/medium van can manage- we regularly get amazon deliveries and such!

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MrDarcyWillBeMine · 06/01/2019 15:17

Daphne- how many people do you know use giant wagons/ lorries to move?

A medium transit or such would be ok (ish)

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Lose2StoneObviously · 06/01/2019 15:34

How does the dustcart get down?

I don't understand why parking is allowed down both sides if it means fire engine can't get down?

cloudtree · 06/01/2019 15:38

Daphne- how many people do you know use giant wagons/ lorries to move?

um.. surely most people Confused

dudsville · 06/01/2019 15:38

Old street design. Where i live the council recently changed the way the road is used for parking so that fire trucks can get through. There was a spectacular scene about a year before this of sobering driving in the fashion of a getaway car and basically crashing into every car on the street!

Lose2StoneObviously · 06/01/2019 15:44

how many people do you know use giant wagons/ lorries to move?

um everybody does Confused

To think trying to fit a lorry down this street is RIDICULOUS!!!
Lose2StoneObviously · 06/01/2019 15:45

x post with cloudtree

user139328237 · 06/01/2019 15:48

Err if there's not room for a fire engine to get past you shouldn't be parking opposite other parked cars in the first place so YABVU.

user139328237 · 06/01/2019 15:49

Sounds like the council need to get out and paint a load of double yellows on nearly every road on your estate.

Santaisfastasleepatlast · 06/01/2019 15:49

We live in a one way access terraced St. Parking permits only, sharp bend at the end to the left, car parking spaces on the right. Last week a huge cement mixer went along our street - twice. Back round the one way
a third time, realised he was in the wrong St and went back out the wrong way!
Senseless!!

InSightMars · 06/01/2019 15:55

Agree, should be yellow lines, if a delivery truck can’t get through it’s possible that nor can emergency services. And what about garbage collection - how do they go on?

PsychologicalSaline · 06/01/2019 15:55

Quite often, on ordering large items for delivery, I have had to declare that my property is accessible.

We used to live on a small island and most deliveries were made using smaller sized vans due to the windy roads and narrow lanes. It was a right faff when we moved house as we had a small van taking furniture from our house to a larger van on the main road!

starzig · 06/01/2019 15:58

Can you contact the council to reassign they bays explaining the current layout is inappropriate for access? They may need to consider reducing parking so that no-one needs occasionally disturbed.

DaphneDiligaf · 06/01/2019 16:08

I have generally found removal vans bigger than Next delivery vans.

MikeUniformMike · 06/01/2019 16:13

Drivers use satnav not common sense these days.

MrDarcyWillBeMine · 06/01/2019 16:20

@lose2stone

This was bigger than that! Im talking proper lorry looking front! In between your picture and the ones they drive down the motorways!

@user139-

Our street a fire engine could probably get down ‘just’- may take a few wingmirrora off but nothing more! Absoloutley wouldn’t fit down the ones behind us- our fiesta is often a squeeze on some of those!

Now that you raise the point I do wonder why the council allow it? Should I flag this up? I mean they charge HEAFTILY for parking permits (I’m talking £300- £400 annually per car) so I’m gonna guess that plays a part!

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DobbinsVeil · 06/01/2019 16:31

Where we live the traffic often comes to a standstill as there is an industrial unit which is only accessible from the main road. Although cars only park down one side, there's a point it switches from one side parking to the other, so if 2 large vehicles meet in the middle, the traffic just grinds to a halt!

The massive lorry that delivered our home office (a massive shed in flat pack form) had a fork lift in the back. He used it to deliver the stuff to us, as the road in was blocked by bad parking.

greenelephantscarf · 06/01/2019 16:36

yanbu
we are in a width restricted are.
the amount of vehicles that still try to get through is insane.
but we have width restricting pollards and the area shows up as not suitable for wide vehicles on sat nav.