Alphabet Street...join us for some parking drama!

[originalcatlady]

Started a new thread on the off chance () that something funny might happen in my street later. Maybe around 10pm...

Diagram below for the handful of people in the country that haven't printed it off yet...

I'm enjoying this saga thanks OP!

What's happening OP?

Does the man who needs X have a blue badge?

Way back in the dark mists of time, I had one and the ex had a car he was rather fond of parking legally. After a year of this sort of thing from the people in the adjacent road, those opposite who had driveways (and fucking private garages behind their houses) and people who had access to their own secure parking area but couldn't be arsed to get out and unlock their parking barrier, I found out from my OT that I could apply for a proper Disabled parking space to be installed by the local council. I thought about it for all of about ten minutes.

Unfortunately, the legal dimensions of said disabled Parking space were not only far larger than the space needed by your average Suzuki Ignis, they placed it right where there would no longer be enough space for more than a third of another car before the corner/double yellows started.

Six weeks later, they decided to put a bus stop directly behind that.

So the space for six cars turned into one disabled space policed by the nice parking man on a scooter if somebody called them first thing in the morning and a bus stop.

I got rid of boyfriend and car shortly afterwards. Then I moved house. Ten years later, there's still only one disabled space and a bus stop, but because the type of buses they use has changed, they've now double yellowed the opposite side of the road altogether and the council compulsorily purchased the garages to build social housing with designated parking spaces through a locked gate.

So the only person who can ever park in that hundred yard stretch on either side of the road or the adjacent streets is somebody with a blue badge.

All because somebody thought they 'owned' the space nearest my front gate.

I'd love for them to double yellow the street. When we have our ten minute rush hour each morning, people drive down the footpath to enable two way traffic around the parked cars.

I'd buy that teeshirt Twernip

Shame on Mrs K for daring to go out and spoil our fun this evening.

I definitely feel like OP could sell merch. T-shirts with pink dressing gowns and quotes such as "but is it touching" and maybe some graphics of two car bumpers/ car and van bumpers super close together. Or "B says don't park here" with a wagging finger.

Oh and a shirt that says alphabet street with a bunch of cars and letters on

Most of the houses round here have long drives for two cars and pretty much ALL of us park one car on the road. Apart from NDN who doesn't use his drive at all and parks car and work can in front of his house and a little over our house too.
It's a tricky situation, if you pop both cars in the drive some arse neighbour parks their work van in front of your window and blocks out the little sunlight that the front of the house gets.
So we all park one car on the road. A road with a junction 20m from our front door....and a bend in the road just after junction.
We also do the car shuffle once someone else has moved to get 'our' parking spots back. But I've never heard any bitching or tutting. We're civilised parker's.

Does anybody else feel OP has changed since the daily mail got involved? It just feels like the thread has a different feeling now. I understand OP but it was one of my all time favourite threads

Hadn’t realised that this had hit the Daily Wail until I read it now but I suspect my neighbours must be readers because I came home this evening and there a hordes of spaces in my street where there are usually none!

Sorry Cantstop youre out of order-you dont want your sunlight blocked? ffs people need to park visitors workmen allsorts

my dsis road sounds like yours lots of driveways but there cars are onthe road in front of their house for no reason also taking up two spaces again for no reason-bloody selfish

I'm inclined to agree with GabsAlot

Unrestricted parking spaces on the public highway are there for anybody to use on a first-come-first-served basis and do not belong to any single house.

HOWEVER, by having a drive, you have effectively gained the right to replace what could otherwise have been another available space for anybody to use with permanent access to your own property. It's only not a space for everybody to use because you have a drive which you want to access. In fact, if there are no yellow lines or white H-mark, you can usually get away with parking there yourself and 'blocking in' your own household, ergo you have scored the right to your own personal exclusive parking space on the public highway, which is not owned by you but which can only realistically be used by you, purely because you have a drive which you don't use anyway.

As a householder with a drive, I think that, if it can be proved that a householder is never using their drive for a vehicle(s) and instead choosing to occupy one or more general spaces on the public road which could otherwise be used by those without their own special drive-access concessions, they should lose the right to their unused drive-access privilege and it be marked out as a normal parking space and specifically labelled as free to all.

Also with the council disabled bays, it should be the standard terms that, on selling/vacating the property, the blue badge holding resident must notify the council, who will then come and scrub out the space - unless the new resident is also a blue badge holder or there can otherwise be shown to be a genuine need for frequent disabled visitors to use it.

Most of the houses on the other side of the road to ours don't have drives, so the road parking is at a real premium. There were two next-door neighbours with blue badges who had requested disabled spaces and the council took so long to do it that, two weeks after they'd painted the spaces, one of the disabled residents had moved out. Sensibly (at last), the council came and scrubbed out one of the two new spaces. If they hadn't, it would just have gone unused with the space being badly needed by non-disabled residents.

Er... @GabsAlot you obviously didn't read @Cantstopeatingchocolate's thread.

The van is owned by the NDN who, instead of parking it in his own drive chooses to always park it directly outside Can'tStop's window, blocking the light into her house. If someone parked outside my window making my room dark and dingy and giving me a horrible view of a flipping van all day when there is a drive for it to sit on next door them I'd be pretty pissed off too. The NDN is being a CFer. Can'tStop was merely explaining that the only solution she has found to prevent him from being a CFer is to park her own smaller car outside her window instead. Clearly she would be happy just using her driveway (as she started she has tried to) but feels like she has no option but to park one car on the street. She quite clearly appreciates how crazy this is but doesn't feel like she has any choice. Your rant was entirely unwarranted.

Apologies, I also didn't quite properly take in Can'tStop's situation.

I stick by what I wrote in general terms, but in this case, I don't think it's at all unreasonable.

Ok, back to the important stuff....@twernip, brilliant idea for 'but is it touching' tshirts and being able to wink and nod at other MNetters when you wear it around town.....I laughed so hard when I pictured you, I woke up my poor old deaf pug( guess the shaking of the bed whilst I was laughing was what did it🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣)
@DanceItOut , I'd wear one of your tshirts too...even if it was just to get a chuckle when I looked at myself in the mirror. So, get cracking on those tshirts pdq before we see an advert in the DM for them being sold by none other than our Mrs.B🤣🤣🤣

@Supertrooper98 Yes. Different feel now, bloody Daily Fail.

Perhaps we need a new thread which the OP doesn't link to this one and no diagram, that those of us who have RTFT might be able to find by the choice of words used in the subject?

I think I'm safe. I bumped into her in Sainsbury's and it was the usual hello. She'd have laid into me if she knew surely. And it seems it was only online too.

Also, she was at work then out all day so a disappointing lack of action on her behalf.

I haven't left you all! I've had fun reporting my curtain twitching and lack of life 😉

So anyway, workmen have been to emerge the signs at some time between midnight and 7am ????

But Strange Car is still there.

@DanceItOut link your online shop please

Imagine if I walked down the street in your t-shirt! Think my cover would be blown then 🤣

Ah but then we would know if Mrs K is on here!!!

I did read it thanks theyre all out of order

they all park one car on the road what for exactly? so the annoying visitors dont get to park?

I think we could start a new fashion trend

Who's old enough to remember the 'Relax' and 'Choose Life' t-shirts from the 80s?

@HopeYouStepOnALego 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@HopeYouStepOnALego yes definitely old enough to remember those t shirts! I'll buy one of your ones, it would be hilarious.