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.

Absolutely shocking, OP. A parent with a buggy or someone in a wheelchair or other mobility device is going to have to step out into the road. Is it not possible to report this? If I saw a car like that, I’d take a photo and report it, and sell o tape a piece of paper to the windscreen informing the owners of what I’d done.

So glad I live in a country where it is nearly always illegal even to park on the side of the ROAD (even right outside your own home), let alone parking on the pavement!

It is if you're 80, infirm, walk with a stick and have Alzheimer's like the OP's mum. Maybe try not being such an inconsiderate wanker?

It would be a shame if someone walked past their car with a handbag with a few sharp metal buckles and accidentaly scratched the paintwork all the way down the side while squeezing past and didnt realise so carried on their innocent way, im almost sure that wouldnt be a criminal offence.
They would probably reconsider their parking strategy.

My wee old granny (she was a bit of a battleaxe) used to take her key out and run it along the side of auch parked cars. At the time I used to be mortified, now as an adult who uses a pram on a daily basis and from time to time, takes out a relative in their wheelchair, I'm sometimes tempted to do it myself.

Actually it is hard. Have you tried getting a wheelchair up and down kerbs? Personally I'm not able to and that's with my relative who weighs about 8 stone. A lot of people are much heavier.

Yep it's bonkers, and very unfair those using the pavement like with a pram, buggy or mobility scooters.

It’s awful!

Although, Not as bad as the horrible people in my street who park nose in over the whole pavement and the back of their car half into the road. Makes passing with my pram very dangerous. I called them out on it once. They were very entitled and nasty.

I haven't read the whole thread, but in the picture on original post, surely it would be difficult to squeeze between the hedge and the car without scratching the paintwork.

Wow I've never actually seen cars parked like this but I'm in London & no one does it (didn't realise it was illegal!).

Tbh I would scratch the car going past

@Studswagger I’m sick to the tits of friends in wheelchairs being physically moved out of the way (what the actual fuck?!) or being addressed rather than them in cafés etc., or how many times people will just walk into us, or on one occasion last year was knocked off my feet by a twunt who ran full pelt into me because he, “Didn’t see me”.

It’s not like I’m a plump, slow moving object with brightly colour crutches or anything.

Do you fancy robbing a bank with me? We’re obviously so invisible no bugger would notice!

If I scratch a car parked on the pavement squeezing past I don't give a shit.

It should not be a fine. It should be points on a driving licence, and no pleas for hardship entertained if it gets to the point of a ban.

I expect larger cars are part of the cause, either the cars parked on the pavement, or the concern of being hit by other vehicles. End SUVs or make you take a separate test to drive one, numbers would reduce.

YANBU. And I'm just an ordinary pedestrian. The problem is that, once one car does it, others with follow.
I've put on stickers in the past and, if it's a commercial van, rung up the company and complained.
But I find it almost as annoying when house owners allow their hedge to grow over the pavement, so you can't use most of it. And you can't put a sticker on a hedge!

I feel your pain OP. On the road where I live, my side of the road all have driveways but only big enough for one car. Yet some people squeeze two cars on their drive meaning the second car hangs out over the pavement totally blocking it. I have to either cross the road to the other side or walk into the road to get round these cars. With a toddler who hates holding hands or listening at all at the moment making crossing the road not easy and a baby in a pram it makes me reluctant to walk with the kids at all.

@CentrifugalBumblePuppy we should rob a bank- put the disability invisibility cloak to good use!

Handbags with exposed zips are always handy in this kind of situation...

I hate this. Few years ago I had a double buggy (slimline one same width as wheelchair) and had hurt my shoulder badly so I could push the buggy but bumping it up or down kerb would jolt my shoulder and hurt. I'd walk a route that I knew had dropped kerbs etc. Then some twat would park on pavement and cause me extreme pain or massive walk round to find dropped kerbs (often on streets with terraced house therefore no drives so no dropped kerbs). It infuriated me and only impacted my life for about 6 months. Those who need wheelchairs etc it must be an ongoing annoyance that they shouldn't have to deal with!

Also why should you have to go round or negotiate
The inconsiderate parkers are in the wrong

Serious money made to fine these people

Let's end sidewalk parking! from Reinventing Parking | Podcast Episode on Podbay Reinventing Parking has a good podcast on pavement parking, worth a listen for those who are interested in this problem and what to do about it.

My dd2 is 8 stone and I agree it is hard to get her up and down kerbs - and I'm pretty physically fit.

I agree with you people think they are leaving the road clearer for cars passing by. It's just not on people's radar. I still parked like this after being in a wheelchair for a period because I really didn't know what else to do! In the end we got a dropped kerb to expand our driveway.

Just to add, Transport Police have told our local residents group that we need to phone 101 with bad parking. They can't do it retrospectively, so you have to do it at the time.

Full of that kind of fuckery round here too. Sick to the back teeth of lumps of metal being given priority.

As a double buggy user that has been forced into the road more times than I can count, yanbu.

It fucks me right off.
And If there's any way I can squeeze by with my double pram but it involves scraping my pram down the side of your car in the process, you can bet I'm doing that.
Not my problem if your car ends up damaged, I'm not risking my child because you're too lazy to walk a little bit.

Selfish pricks.

It’s selfishness that causes pavement parking not lack of knowledge about use of a pavements. People can’t be bothered to find a correct parking space and just pull up on the pavement to protect their car from passing vehicles. It also creates danger for cyclists as they have to go more into the road. It’s pure idiot selfishness. If you both really don’t know how to park correctly you shouldn’t be driving. I’d take driving licences away forever for pavement parking because of the danger it creates. That would put a stop to it immediately and the same treatment of course for drunk/drug driving - ban the idiot selfish drivers.