Page 2 | AIBU to park like this?!

BarHumbugs · 15/06/2024 10:18

You have no right to reserve a bit of the street but you can be imaginative with your garden. Do you have a lawn? You could put down messing and have somewhere to park without losing the lawn visually and environmentally for instance.

daffodilandtulip · 15/06/2024 10:20

A terrace with no front space at all did this in our batshit parking brigade street. Completely pointless as it's not enforced because it's not blocking anything when the others park there.

CandiedPrincess · 15/06/2024 10:26

EmeraldsAreForever · 14/06/2024 19:43

As a wheelchair user, I don't care whether you own it or not, anyone who parks over a dropped kerb is a stupid and selfish twat. The other day I had to wheel myself in the actual road for ages before I could cross over to my house. Dangerous as well as exhausting.

But hey, you being able to "reserve" the front of your house and keeping your roses and poppies, are more important than people in wheelchairs being able to cross the road.

Oh come on. Get over yourself. If she WERE to put in a dropped kerb and blocked it it is of no more inconvenience to you or anybody else, than when there was a proper kerb there. You couldn't have crossed there before, you wouldn't be able to after. You're in no worse a situation. Am assuming there are already dropped kerbs in place for people to cross. The entitlement of some people is mindboggling.

EmeraldsAreForever · 15/06/2024 11:33

"Am assuming there are already dropped kerbs in place for people to cross. The entitlement of some people is mindboggling."

"Assuming" is the key word here. There are indeed other dropped kerbs but I can't fucking cross them because people are parked over them.

The "entitlement of some people" is really ironic. People are entitled to block dropped kerbs yet people in wheelchairs aren't entitled to be able to cross the fucking road! The other day there were four cars parked over consecutive dropped kerbs opposite my side of the road so I had to either wheel all the past them to cross over at the last available kerb in the line and then all the extra way back on my side of the road to get in my house which is fucking exhausting, or use the first dropped kerb and wheel myself in the road. Perhaps spend some time living like this every day before you start insulting people whilst demonstrating your ignorance.

CarlaH · 15/06/2024 12:14

EmeraldsAreForever · 15/06/2024 11:33

"Am assuming there are already dropped kerbs in place for people to cross. The entitlement of some people is mindboggling."

"Assuming" is the key word here. There are indeed other dropped kerbs but I can't fucking cross them because people are parked over them.

The "entitlement of some people" is really ironic. People are entitled to block dropped kerbs yet people in wheelchairs aren't entitled to be able to cross the fucking road! The other day there were four cars parked over consecutive dropped kerbs opposite my side of the road so I had to either wheel all the past them to cross over at the last available kerb in the line and then all the extra way back on my side of the road to get in my house which is fucking exhausting, or use the first dropped kerb and wheel myself in the road. Perhaps spend some time living like this every day before you start insulting people whilst demonstrating your ignorance.

What do disabled people do when there are no dropped kerbs? Obviously people don't put them in for the benefit of disabled people, they do it for their own convenience. Here a lot of people do park over their drops because if they don't other drivers encroach on them so that they can't actually get on to or off of their frontages.

Relying on other people to spend money on drops seems unreasonable but so does not being able to actually cross the road.

GinForBreakfast · 15/06/2024 12:17

YABU for not giving us a diagram!

EmeraldsAreForever · 15/06/2024 12:38

What do disabled people do when there are no dropped kerbs? Obviously people don't put them in for the benefit of disabled people, they do it for their own convenience. Here a lot of people do park over their drops because if they don't other drivers encroach on them so that they can't actually get on to or off of their frontages"

We can't cross the road if there are no dropped kerbs available and have to keep going til we find one, what do you think we do? It's not like the minor annoyance of having to bump your child's pushchair off the pavement to cross (if you see what I mean?)

I will stand by the fact that people parking on dropped kerbs are thoughtless if not selfish with no regard for others. People parking over their own kerbs when they have the luxury of driving of a driveway is infuriating. If your neighbours park like dicks (and God knows it's common round here so I sympathise there!) take it up with them instead of causing problems for people with disabilities. It's not an "inconvenience" to us, it totally removes options to travel independently.

EmeraldsAreForever · 15/06/2024 12:51

For example if I come out of my house and wheel right I have a bus stop on the other side at the end of the road. There are probably 7/8 dropped kerbs where 5/6 have driveways (I'll count next time I'm out!) and if people have parked over them all I just can't cross the road to get the bus. I could wheel left and travel the extra distance and find a dropped kerb to cross then wheel back all along the road but it's fucking exhausting.

Sorry OP I didn't mean to derail your thread (especially when you've already made the decision!) but being called entitled etc stings - I don't think people realise just how hard it is for wheelchair users. I lose what little independence I have, and I want to be independent. It's hard.

Don't get me started on bin day and pavements! I realise this is no one's fault really but the other day I couldn't get to the shop and came home and cried. And I only really just wanted some Jaffa cakes it wasn't essential but life is just so frustrating.

CarlaH · 15/06/2024 13:13

EmeraldsAreForever · 15/06/2024 12:38

What do disabled people do when there are no dropped kerbs? Obviously people don't put them in for the benefit of disabled people, they do it for their own convenience. Here a lot of people do park over their drops because if they don't other drivers encroach on them so that they can't actually get on to or off of their frontages"

We can't cross the road if there are no dropped kerbs available and have to keep going til we find one, what do you think we do? It's not like the minor annoyance of having to bump your child's pushchair off the pavement to cross (if you see what I mean?)

I will stand by the fact that people parking on dropped kerbs are thoughtless if not selfish with no regard for others. People parking over their own kerbs when they have the luxury of driving of a driveway is infuriating. If your neighbours park like dicks (and God knows it's common round here so I sympathise there!) take it up with them instead of causing problems for people with disabilities. It's not an "inconvenience" to us, it totally removes options to travel independently.

It's not the neighbours who encroach, it's commuters who use the nearby station. Once there they stay all day so if two of them in a pincer movement both encroach then getting off of your frontage becomes very difficult, especially if there is somebody parked opposite.

I do appreciate that it makes the lives of the disabled very difficult but that's not really the reason why the dropped kerbs are there is it? If you live on a street of terraced houses where there is no space to park on your frontage then there won't be any dropped kerbs at all.

EmeraldsAreForever · 15/06/2024 17:03

It's depressing raising accessibility issues on here. Being told to "get over yourself and being called entitled then basically

Yes but
But
But
It could be worse for you

Parking over dropped kerbs causes accessibility issues for wheelchairs. It's as simple as that. I think I'll leave it at that.

uhOhOP · 15/06/2024 19:14

EmeraldsAreForever · 15/06/2024 17:03

It's depressing raising accessibility issues on here. Being told to "get over yourself and being called entitled then basically

Yes but
But
But
It could be worse for you

Parking over dropped kerbs causes accessibility issues for wheelchairs. It's as simple as that. I think I'll leave it at that.

Somebody parking over a newly created dropped kerb for their drive doesn't change the situation for a wheelchair user – they couldn't have crossed the road there before, and they still can't. That's the point people are making, that it kind of makes no difference to the wheelchair user.

Auntimabelsbudgie · 15/06/2024 19:38

mynamechangemyrules · 14/06/2024 19:28

And is it even legal/ doable...

So I live in a cul-de-sac and most houses have converted their front gardens into parking spaces. Most can fit 2 cars except the turning circle houses.

My house and the one I'm semi detached to have kept our front gardens. As have a few near the end of the road.

So there are 3 little stretches where people can park.

People who have driveways park on there all the time as they have lots of cars each. My immediate opposite neighbour has 5 (!!!) cars for her 3 bed semi (she's lovely but has 2 adult kids moved back in with their partners..)

So- I want to get a dropped kerb- but not turn my garden into a concrete slab. Can I get a dropped kerb, but still park on the kerb myself (block my imaginary parking space in?!)
If I don't make the garden into a car park space can I do this to 'reserve' the space out the front of my house?!

Pathetic, petty whatev I know 🤪😂 but I have 3 small kids and just some days get fucked off parking miles away- but also don't want to concrete over my lovely rose bushes and California poppies 😫

AIBU to get a dropped kerb without a parking space behind it?

No, you can't. Council have to be involved to make dropped kerb and paint white line

nettle86 · 15/06/2024 20:07

Have you spoken to your neighbour(s)? I imagine trying to enforce some rule around a dropped curb would end in tears, save yourself the hassle and persuade them you need the space in front of your house now.