To ask you if know what an H box painted on the road means?

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So many people dont seem to know this? I wondered if people on mn knew?

Hydrant? Maybe, not sure but that’s what I’ve always thought.

Fire hydrant. The numbers on it denote the distance from the actual hydrant and the width of the pipe.

Helicopter landing site

Yes - fire hydrant location, the numbers are distance in feet and size of pipe.

Do you mean the no parking H lik people have in front of rheir driveway?

This.

It's where H from Steps is buried.

The H marking near me denote a dropped kerb usually leading to a driveway or private road/ lane etc. An area you shouldn’t park across, there’s one across the lane/ road to get to the garage round the back of my house but annoyingly people sometimes ignore it and I’ve been blocked in or out before.

Keep access clear

The fire hydrant ones aren't painted on roads, are they? I'd expect to see them on little concrete posts, or plastic labels on street lamps etc.

Painted on a road, I'd expect an H to be over a dropped kerb, and mean no parking

yes.

What's an H box as opposed to just a plain H?

Why you so bothered?!

It means you can't park here because of dropped curb, but will only get a ticket if reported by the household it's outside.
We have one, I love it because I can always park on it and everyone else is scared to because they aren't allowed

It's a H bar not a box.

What an odd response. She just asked a question, it’s a discussion forum.

An H bar painted in white? Normally by a dropped curb? Is that what you mean? If yes, it's a reminder to road users that it's an entrance in constant use and needs access to it, and you mustn't park on it.

I think you mean H-bar (like an elongated H, usually along a dropped kerb)

It means Don't Park Here, and it's to deter inconsiderate parking (by making it bloody obvious that you'd cause an obstruction if you did park there). You can get a fixed penalty notice for parking on one

I have a disabled bay marked in white outside my house allocated to me, my car, my house, my disabled badge. I wish people were too scared not to park in it - everyone parks in it because it's marked in white, not yellow.

It’s an ‘access protection marking’ to highlight a dropped kerb accessing a driveway

https://cms.wiltshire.gov.uk/documents/s174967/Appendix%204.pdf

Where does it say she is bothered? 😂

Should have nicknamed it an I Box, not an H.

Your area clearly doesn't have parking attendants.

In my area you email that a a vehicle is causing a nuisance and they will come around on their mountain bikes as soon as possible to put on a ticket.

So I've seen a HGV that was parked on double yellows get a ticket. The 6ft attendant had to stretch. If the HGV has just blocked the road for half an hour it would have been fine.

@Reugny in my area Disabled bays are a courtesy place. They cannot be ticketed as they are not legally enforced.

I thought only other blue badge holders could park there, so not just you. However it appears it's only a courtesy bay 😱

Not my council but this is from Leicester

• ADB markings are advisory only and rely on the goodwill of other motorists to operate. Therefore, any motorist is allowed to park in an ADB without displaying a Blue Badge. Other vehicles may overlap part of the markings due to the parking pattern of other vehicles on the road.
• As the ADB is not backed by a legal order, there is no civil enforcement action that the City Council can take to prevent anyone from parking within the ADB marking.