It’s a parking one….

[Peaceandquietandacuppa]

Wanted to share a bonkers parking situation and get some perspectives!

Live on a narrow terraced street with parking restrictions/ resident permits.

Diagram has: black cars parked up both sides. Colourful cars are the ones in the road. Road has a dead end marked at the bottom so only one way to exit.

Blue car neighbour’s daughter decides to leave car in the road because they are fed up of not finding a space. There is a local landmark where people visit every week and neighbour is pissed off about it.

Green car neighbour is trying to go and pick up her son (goes to a special school which is a drive away). Is going NUTS as I would be! I thought she was going to hit the neighbour who was laughing at her, so I was trying to protect her from getting arrested and talk reason to them.

Red car is someone in my house trying to park (we have one car, I don’t drive) , ends up giving up and parking 2 streets away. My relative turns up and also start shouting when they realise why they couldn’t park 🤣

Other colour cars are waiting around bemused. There were also people parked up who ironically couldn’t get out and would have freed up about 4 spaces.

I was trying to calm green down as she was panicking, trying to plead with the blue neighbour, why are you punishing your neighbours who hold permits for other people’s actions. I called the police who weren’t interested sadly. The neighbour and his daughter were standing there laughing and saying “we’re making a stand”

So we just had to knock around and find some people parked to move their cars, eventually got Green out of there to pick up her kid..

Im still so shocked and angry! After a few people managed to get out and some spaces freed up, we shouted through their window, “you can move your Fucking car now idiots” and they came out and moved it.

Note there were spaces further up the road near the dead end (hard to show on diagram), but my relative couldn’t get through to get to them. And blue were deciding not to use the spaces further up out of principle…

Any tips if it happens again?

and the YABU:

YABU - they should make a stand about people parking on our street, even if it massively inconveniences their neighbours as well

YANBU - they’re selfish idiots and should use the proper channels

Sterling diagram that.

I think give a taste of own medicine should do it but maybe someone else has a better idea.

The only person who is in the wrong is the blue car, I couldn’t live with that. On my street, there would have been fights breaking out if someone did that.

I feel really sorry for green car neighbour. She must have been pretty desperate to get to pick up her kid.

We were getting very close to a riot 😅

We do have a resident permit scheme and visitor badges. Just a lot of cars come for about an hour on a Friday and then go again. Some of them park without permits, taking a risk, some of them maybe get given visitor passes. But neighbours daughter knows this and could either adjust her timings to arrive later or park a few houses down the road. But they are just throwing their toys out, affecting us who actually live here too!

Get together with other neighbours so that if blue car owner does it again, you instantly surround the car and block it in. Make plans with people at the end who can get out easily to give lifts if absolutely necessary.

Is it a mosque OP?

Photograph blue car every time it blocks the road - and spaces available elsewhere in the road if possible. Contact police or council every time, so that they can see there is a pattern emerging. (Police would soon be interested if an emergency vehicle needed to get up there!!)
Have a local tow company on speed dial to have it removed!!

You need to contact your council and ask them to send the parking enforcement officers down your street. If you can give them days and times when the highest number of non permit twats are parking there you should start seeing them there regularly and when word gets about that you get a parking ticket for parking in your street it should calm down

Oh and round here blue car owner would wake up to smashed windows and slashed tires for her purposefully blocking of the road

Damn I forgot to take photos! They had fully left it, locked up and just went in the house.. this is good, thank you!

She was 😢 she was getting really desperate. I was about to offer to pay towards for a taxi for her when we managed to get her out.

It is, so is mainly a Friday afternoon traffic pressure

You should have a local traffic department at the local authority. If you highlight the problems particularly on a Friday due to the prayers, then a warden can come out to stop such behaviour. They do state in the mosque that worshippers should not block others.

We are having works done at the top of our small cul de sac (leisure centre) the construction staff all block down the road. Last week they were parked at the junction in and out of the cul de sac. We rang the council to say we couldn’t see out onto the main road or if a car was coming up when we turned in, the council said that they would send the traffic warden. Since then the parking as improved somewhat as in it’s not right at the top,

So blue literally left her car in the middle of the road? I'm not surprised people were raging.

How did you get to this?

id personally go and see whoever is in charge of the mosque and explain that their customers are causing mayhem and chaos and upset parking where they are and ask that they ask people to be considerate and park elsewhere

the OP said the issue arises every Friday afternoon, so Friday prayers is an assumption, no different to someone having an issue on Sunday mornings, one might automatically think church service.

So are there deeper layers to blue cars stance possibly, re the mosque?

Does the neighbour's daughter live there? (Just being curious.)

She must be on here anyway, someone's voted for taking a stand 😂

Perhaps the neighbour's daughter could cycle

Potentially - it did cross my mind. But if that was their logic, the two main people they inconvenienced (red - me, and green) are not mosque goers and actually live on the street and have permits! And so any sympathy I had for their parking struggles and support I may have given by signing a letter to the mosque etc, is long gone. I don’t find it that much of an inconvenience anyway.

I dont think so. The parents are elderly but she does visit a lot.

I predict a riot

Report it as a hate crime to the police. They’re clearly trying to stop people going to and leaving the mosque.

Blue car is clearly in the wrong and total arseholes.

However, is it worth contacting the mosque and asking them to remind worshippers to park their cars mindfully and be aware of local residents?

Otherwise the only thing would be to have the street residents only 8.30 - 8.30 (or whatever timing would deter worshippers from parking there).