People who don’t use their drives. Why? 😆

[emmerdaleorcorrie]

I’m really curious about this. I doubt it’s just my area. It doesn’t annoy me or anything like that, but after living in a terrace with on street parking for years, I love having a drive now and can’t wrap my head around people who don’t use theirs. There’s a house a few doors down with 2 cars always parked on the street, while their drive sits empty. I’ve been living here for nearly a year, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a car on their drive. I only noticed because one of their cars is always parked on a bend, forcing everyone to drive on the other side of the road to get past.

My whole estate is like this, with cars scattered everywhere, on pavements, and drives just sitting there empty. I know that some people don’t want to play car jenga, having one car in the drive and another on the street, but not using it at all seems a bit odd. Houses with parking usually cost more too. I feel more at ease knowing my car is safer and less likely to get damaged. It also frees up more space for guests.

I don’t know, I just think it’s a little odd, but what can you do. I don’t think there’s a law that saids you have to park on your drive haha. Is there anyone on here that does this? 😆

The main reason why I don't park on my drive are idiots who try to block me in.
It's obvious the drive is much wider than the drop kerb, or we wouldn't be able to fit more than 2 small cars with a tight squeeze. The amount of drivers who make a point to park right to the very edge of the drop kerve. It doesn't magically create more space to park another car behind them, but it blocks or at the very least annoys me.

Fine, I just park on the street. Complete non-issue. It leaves a free space for visitors who come at time when the street is busy.

1962 Garage Act in Japan...

I have a double drive, and park on it.
All fine except 3 houses up have 5 cars and a double driveway...3 adult kids st home it seems. So they have taken to parking opposite my driveway, meaning its a struggle to get off my drive.
Nothing except common sense to tell them not to park there, and knocking to say pls move your car i need to get iff drive in my huge van (wheelchair van), then return from the shops 5 mins later and need to ask them.to move again.
Simpletons.

I know several people who park on the street rather than their drives.

1 person is a very nervous reverser and won't reverse onto or off their drive. Even when shopping she will drive through spaces so she doesn't have to reverse out.

My BIL and SIL live on a street with almost all street parking, their neighbours have converted their fronts to a drive, however as the road is double parked and there is so much street parking it is very difficult with sight lines and turning circles to get on and off the drive and the neighbor now just street parks.

1 person just hates playing car jenga, they have a long drive with space for 2 cars one behind the other and they just don't like shuffling them about.

An elderly couple near my MIL park on the road rather than their drive as they have carers coming 4 times a day and street parking is limited (live close to town so lots of shop workers park on their road and walk in rather than pay all day car parking), the carers park on their drive when they visit.

1 person lives on free parking street close to train station and park on the street as they have found themselves blocked in on their drive due to selfish commuter parking.

Some workers at the care home down the road from us street park rather than use the car park. The care home car park is very tight (for modern cars) and also involves playing car jenga at shift change if they all park in the car park. It is a very contentious issue on the street as when the care home expanded no provision was made for the extra staff needing to park and the way many staff park (on the pavement) make it very dangerous for pedestrians and wheelchair/ pram users and also block sight lines for getting on and off drives safely (road is 40mph coming down from national speed limit, most of the cars coming past the care home are doing around 50mph and lots of cars parked on the road get clipped as other drivers try to squeeze round them at speed).

So you want more protected space than your dropped kerb? To allow you easier access in and out?

This is why permission for drives/dropped kerbs should be be much more difficult to get, and many dropped kerbs should be rescinded and general parking restored. It’s an outrage that householders can alter the rights of everyone else to park on a public highway.

If you have enough land to accommodate off-street parking without interfering with others’ parking rights, fine. But in most urban places it doesn’t work like that.

I can't make a diagram to show my point, so I realise I am being BU

But when there's space for ONE vehicle in front of a house, and parking at the very edge of the dropped kerb doesn't free any space for another car, yes, it's people behaving like idiots. So I park there instead and they lose the spot.

It's common sense, and idiots as usual penalise everyone else.

I still think Japan has it right - no parking space, no car (or no car registration)

Dropped kerbs are an access for wheelchairs and buggies to cross the roads, so there's no real solution. We can't ask for permit to park (and block) our own drives which would solve a few problems.

It’s an outrage that householders can alter the rights of everyone else to park on a public highway. Don't be ridiculous. People pay more to have somewhere to park, you pay less and have no allocated space, it's your choice.
Of course people need access to their home.

What's next? Private gardens alter the rights of everyone to access green spaces? 😂

Oh dear. As ever, the point escapes the posters with something anxiously to protect, against everyone else’s interests.

If there’s enough room to allow off-street parking then of course it’s fine. I have a friend who lives in a rural place who has space for probably 20 cars on his huge gravelled, country pile drive. He isn’t removing parking from anyone else. But that’s not the point.

You might pay for a dropped kerb. But if you live in a town I would stop you having the opportunity to have a dropped kerb. Park on the street like everyone else and when you’re using your car, anyone else can use the parking space. The rest of the world wouldn’t have to search around for a space while you’re away.👍