To be absolutely fed up with this type of inconsiderate parking

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First of all I am not talking busy towns or cities as I know parking is difficult (although I still don’t agree with being inconsiderate).

I live in a village. A village with wide enough roads in which one can park their car on the road and there will still be plenty of space for traffic usage.

Yet people are parking like this on a daily occurrence.

I took this picture this morning. My mum and I were going for a little walk down the road she lives (we live in the same village). Parking like this meant we had to either cross over the road or step off the road and walk on the road around the car. The road is quite busy with regular buses and lorries passing through (often not adhering to the 30 limit but that is another story!) and as my 80 year old mum suffers from Alzheimer’s, is bent over with osteoporosis, uses a stick and is frail we decided not to risk it so turned and walked back instead. But we shouldn’t have had to do that. The pavements are designed for people not vehicles.

Why have people become so self centred and ableist? I work with disabled people and this is a daily occurrence for them. Having to cut their journey short or risk their lives by going onto the road. Are people now so materialistic that they will put their car before the safety of pedestrians?

I feel it’s about time the government made this an offence in certain areas and it should carry a fine. We have a PCSO who will come over and slap on inconsiderate parking tickets but it’s not cutting it.

Yesterday I walked my dog along 7 roads in our village and 5 of those roads had cars parked like this. The worst one was by the school. Cars all parked on the paths or double parked yet further down the road was free, people really are too damn lazy to park a little further down and actually walk.

We have a new neighbour who continually parks like this. The previous occupants never did this and there is absolutely no need to as there is plenty of room. It makes me so angry as I have to go around her car into the road with the pushchair endangering me and my grandson. That's bad enough but very inconsiderate for wheelchair or mobility scooter users. Just selfish.

That would be a parking ticket in my borough.

YANBU, happens in my village too.

Half our village parks like your photo.

I don't know how you stop it but it's bloody inconsiderate and dangerous for pedestrians.

At least they pulled their door mirror in.

Selfish, entitled, idiots parking like that

Buy some extra sticky PARKED LIKE A TWAT stickers online for slapping onto the windows of all the cars you encounter like this. Or I guess they could say something clearer like DON'T PARK ON THE PAVEMENT YOU TWAT. People tend to get the message when they have to invest effort in peeling an extra sticky sticker off their car window (back, not front, as you cannot legally obscure a driver's vision I believe). It would be very satisfying though...

We had this where a van was parked in front of a driveway on the pavement I came along with my pram and made a point of walking over their driveway.

I think I'd be tempted to create inconsiderate Parker of the day sticker and paste over people's cars. When I have had to do this I've made sure there is enough room for a wheelchair to pass comfortably by. (And I had to park like this to get my elderly relative in my car)

One for the YPLAC twitter page. You can have a guess what the C stands for. They also sell stickers I think.

This is a massive pet peeve of mine. I walk with a pram and am forever on and off the pavement, onto the road because almost everyone on my estate parks like that, and there's a primary school so there are always lots of cars. There are even a couple of vans that constantly park like that, me and my 1 year old have almost been hit by a car twice in the last week trying to go around the same van as it's obviously creating a blind spot. I find it so selfish. I don't know if I'm just more in tune with it since needing to walk with a pushchair but I swear years ago if people parked on the curb it was one wheel on the pavement, not one wheel plus the whole body of the car. Could be because cars are getting bigger these days, but it's a real problem for pedestrians.

I am definitely buying some Parked like a Twat stickers lol

I won’t walk on the road and put myself at risk so make a purpose of squeezing myself past their car and if my buttons or zip happens to scrape along the paintwork then so be it 😬

Arseholes. I just walk by scrapping the side of the car to be honest!

YANBU. These builders park on the pavement every day and it’s not just a little bit, they’re on the entire pavement.

I pulled my neighbour up about parking like that as I couldn’t get my DDs wheelchair past. He was blocking the lowered kerb so it wasn’t even like I could go round him.

Turns out he drives everywhere so hadn’t occurred to him that people might walk down the street 🙄

grumpypedestrian van drivers are the absolute worse.

YetMoreNewBeginnings it gets my back up that they are so blinkered they can not see other people need that space.

Can you report bad parking with a photo on your council website?

I think people who park like this are thinking that they are being considerate- they are just being considerate of the wrong people: drivers, not pedestrians. Probably some of them would be surprised and would change their ways if they knew how much trouble they are causing by their parking. Also, people tend to copy how other people park, so if they see one person parked like this, they will think it is the 'right' way to park. Maybe, a public information drive is needed.

I have the same. I'm a childminder & walk to the nearby playschool for drop offs & collections. I always have a buggy with me. I refuse to walk on the road with small children so if I can get the buggy through i will squeeze through. I haven't scratched a car yet but I'm not overly careful either. My priority is the little ones. I've done it when people are actually sitting in their car waiting & no one has dared say anything to me cos they know they're in the wrong. If I can't get the buggy through & the owner is in the car I have been known to bang on the window & get them to move.
There was a lady last year who collected a little one & the lady was a wheelchair user. God help her.

They just send the local PCSO over and she slaps on an inconsiderate parking ticket. No one takes any notice of those.

The infuriates me. Along with work vans at houses who park arse end in the drive but hang over the entire path. I’m fed up of endangering my child’s life by pushing her into the road.

That’s true. We are a commuting village and they all park exactly the same along the road where the station is, it is becoming ridiculous.

This makes me see red.

Two things that I think could stop it:

more traffic wardens, more tickets. C'mon councils, aren't you desperate for extra revenue at the moment?

And a mass campaign for pedestrians to simply walk over the top of anything parked on the pavement. Bit more of a challenge with vans, but shiny BMWs would be so much fun! 😆 Obviously not do-able for people in wheelchairs/mobility scooters, but us able bodied could do it for them. In groups, to reduce the risk of attack.

It is upsetting that cars are more important than people.

YANBU, that's terrible parking.

The problem with pavement parking is that it needs nuance.

On our road, the pavements are wide enough to pop a wheel up on the kerb to give more room for traffic and still leave plenty of room for a wheelchair or double buggy to pass.

On my parents' cul de sac, parking is at a premium and it's an old narrow road, so everyone parks up on the pavement and walks in the road - it's quiet enough that that's safe.

On a different road near me, people park up completely blocking the pavement - even though there's plenty of parking on the other side of the road, that does my head in.

AlsonificationElFupacabra exactly, why should you have to risk children’s lives because of idiotic and inconsiderate parking?