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.

Me too. I actually got driven in to, whilst forced onto the road around parked cars. They hit my hip. If it had been one of the children...

Well it's hardly surprising that the people who are bothered by this are the people it actually affects, is it.

Pavement parking is illegal in London, wish it would extend to rest of UK - unless it's explicitly permitted with a sign saying so (and where this is, the pavement is usually very wide so there's plenty of space left). Honestly, scratch the car with a key, that's what I do.

I think your comments on here will be more likely to provoke a response from someone with a disability. So it may seem that way but it's not.

If I was able bodied I'd probably scroll on. But I have to put up with this stupidity everyday.

Funny how the people who post the most about things are the ones most affected…

You’re not very bright if you don’t understand that.

How many people are going to post a thread saying “people in my area park like this and it makes no impact on my day whatsoever…”?

Not just disability. Buggies, shopping trollies, and to honest, in OP photo, a larger adult would struggle to get past.

That would get a parking ticket here. They are HOT on stopping people parking on kerbs.

I'd be complaining to your council. If some actual tickets get issued, regularly, it'll stop this type of parking.

I posted a picture of me trying to squeeze my pram past a car parked like this the Facebook page for my estate and got absolutely attacked being told "you should have just knocked and asked them to move their car!".

Apparently I was in the wrong. Next time I want to walk 10 mins to the shop with my baby I'll factor in an extra 20 to knock on all the doors of the people who have blocked the pavement.

No not everybody has a disability, just the people responding to you. Why should anyone risk walking into to the road just because idiots park on the path? Many years ago I pushed a double buggy plus a child walking, no way on earth was I going to take them into the road, if the buggy caught the car it was their own fault. If certain car drivers refuse to keep paths clear they shouldn't expect padestrians to make allowances for their car

A large part of the population do yes

Did they fuck, a pedestrian probably did that. Hopefully keying them at the same time.

I don't have a disability. I don't even know anyone who uses a wheelchair or a walking frame. But even I can see how parking a car in a way that forces a wheelchair user or small child into the road is a massive dick move. It's really not that hard to understand that not everybody's daily life is exactly like yours unless you're a psycopatb.

The vans near me are on the entire pavement, there’s no room whatsoever, disability or not. Why should pedestrians risk their lives walking in the road?

Ive reported it to the council several times and nothing gets done about it.

I agree it's so annoying. I had to walk on the road with the pram yesterday as someone had parked like that and I genuinely got my pram wheel stuck and bashed into their car on my way past... served them right.

As you may guess with my username, I'm registered blind. Parking on pavements is my nightmare. I am terrified having to cross roads by myself, let alone go onto a road to walk around parked cars.

I am very placid and patient, but when a driver pulls up in front of me I ask them to move their car so the pavement is safe and accessible.

NOT ONCE HAS THE MAN MOVED OR APOLOGISED and I can only remember once where the man did not become aggressive towards me, raise his voice or be obnoxious. And yes, it has always been a man.

It is so unsafe for many pedestrians; I feel for you and your mum OP, it's so infuriating isn't it?

YANBU op, it’s inconsiderate and infuriating. Parking on pavements should be an offence imo. Unfortunately if drivers see others doing it, they will invariably think it’s acceptable and follow suit.

Oh dear and on and on you go.
Why don’t try volunteering fir a disability or elderly persons charity and then you will see just how many people this kind of thing actually does affect. The world is a little larger than you in you little bubble you know?

There’s a new housing development by me where all the houses have two large tandem spaces and the main road has double yellow lines. Lots of people have three cars so they either park the third car entirely on the pavement outside their house or they overhang their driveway and leave about a foot of space for pedestrians. It’s bloody irritating.

I don't understand why the owners of cars who do this thinks vehicles can't just drive around it if he/she parked fully on the road itself, like traffic does on loads of roads all the time. It's not a busy looking road. Parking partly on the pavement has become so normalised, when it used to be the exception.

YouveGotAFastCar I have forwarded this onto our local parish council. One of them is a neighbour and he says they are receiving more and more complaints like this.

MichaelCane I am sorry you encounter this on a regular basis. I really do despair these days, where has decent consideration for others gone?

They're selfish and obviously don't have a pram or wheelchair that they need to navigate.

I think it is awful

However on some pavements I see a white line and cars park up to the edge.

This is usually when the road is so narrow so I think technically it is permitted

I could have written this exact post. Added to which, the road I live on is very narrow, winding and at peak times full of school run traffic. If it's busy, I can't go in the road, also there are often a string of cars parked like that, so no space between them to either go back in the pavement or would mean walking a long distance in the road.