A pavement parking odyssey

[CanucksTraveller]

When your S-Line w@nkpanzer is too big for the parent and child space... no problem, just force pedestrians into the road by taking up their space too!

 

[Drago]

You allow your Butler to buy his gruel at Waitrose?

 

[wafter]

Nice one; I'm a huge fan of such work although in my mind such antics on my part would culminate in me falling off / getting a puncture / having to stop for some other reason and subsequently getting kerb-stompted by and angry moron

Some years ago I found a people carrier parked perfectly in the middle of, and completely blocking a wide cycle path near me (located between the road on one side, pavement on the other, each separated by verges with plenty of on-street parking on said road). I let it go on my way to the shop, but on my way back it was still there so I let down the two tyres on the road-side (figured I was less likely to get rumbled by the driver who was presumably in one of the nearby houses).

It never ceases to amaze me how utterly, senselessly inconsiderate and selfish people are; as typified by the way they drive and park. It's on my perpetual to-do list to get some credit-card size self-adhesive stickers printed with "Thankyou for your considerate parking" or some similar passive aggressive note, that can be kept in one's wallet until sufficient need presents itself to apply one to the driver's side centre of someone's windscreen...

 

[classic33]

Nice one; I'm a huge fan of such work although in my mind such antics on my part would culminate in me falling off / getting a puncture / having to stop for some other reason and subsequently getting kerb-stompted by and angry moron

Some years ago I found a people carrier parked perfectly in the middle of, and completely blocking a wide cycle path near me (located between the road on one side, pavement on the other, each separated by verges with plenty of on-street parking on said road). I let it go on my way to the shop, but on my way back it was still there so I let down the two tyres on the road-side (figured I was less likely to get rumbled by the driver who was presumably in one of the nearby houses).

It never ceases to amaze me how utterly, senselessly inconsiderate and selfish people are; as typified by the way they drive and park. It's on my perpetual to-do list to get some credit-card size self-adhesive stickers printed with "Thankyou for your considerate parking" or some similar passive aggressive note, that can be kept in one's wallet until sufficient need presents itself to apply one to the driver's side centre of someone's windscreen...

 

[wafter]

Very restrained; although sadly I think most lack the self-awareness and to actually absorb the message it conveys

 

[classic33]

Very restrained; although sadly I think most lack the self-awareness and to actually absorb the message it conveys

You can change the wording.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

There are some right entitled bastards out there who see parking on pavements as a right.
This is a report of a driver of a white van punching a blind man who asked him to move so that he and his guide dog could safely pass.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-51801370

A blind man walking with his guide dog was punched repeatedly when he asked a van driver to move off the pavement to enable him to pass.​

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Tony Webb, 73, was attacked in Bishop's Stortford in Hertfordshire at about 09:00 GMT on Sunday.​

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His daughter posted a photograph of his black eye which has been shared by more than 15,000 people on social media.​

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She said he was recovering at home but was very shaken and was "petrified" of going outside.​

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Tracy Hassell, who said her father can see some light and dark, wrote on Facebook: "My blind dad was attacked in Bishop's Stortford town centre this morning at 9am by a man... who was parked on the pavement in a white van."​

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She told the BBC: "Dad asked the driver if he would move so he and Sammy, his guide dog, could get past, but the man said 'no'.​

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"Dad asked him again and said it was out of order to park on the pavement, and the next thing he knew he was pushed up against the van - he thinks he was punched three times in his eye.​

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"The man even told my father he didn't believe he was blind."​

 

[Drago]

When will the government just grasp the nettle and ruddy well ban parking on the path?

 

[figbat]

Driving on the pavement is already an offence, and since to park on a pavement requires to have driven on the pavement, surely they can be done for that?

 

[Drago]

Alas, no, the prosecution threshold is 25M so people accessing driveways etc don't get stiffed. 4 wheels up on the footway would be a different offence altogether, and they can still get done for that.

 

[figbat]

Oh yes, the distance thing. I thought driveways were defined by a dropped kerb?
There are some houses on a main road near here who block-paved their gardens but have no dropped kerb. As far as I’m concerned it’s decorative as there is marked parking on the road across their ‘drives’. I won’t park there if they have added an automobile decoration to their garden but if the block paving is empty then AFAIC it’s fair game.

 

[mjr]

Alas, no, the prosecution threshold is 25M so people accessing driveways etc don't get stiffed. 4 wheels up on the footway would be a different offence altogether, and they can still get done for that.

Can you remember which offence? Fly tipping a car? Or is that only once we've rolled it into the ditch?

 

[mjr]

Oh yes, the distance thing. I thought driveways were defined by a dropped kerb?
There are some houses on a main road near here who block-paved their gardens but have no dropped kerb. As far as I’m concerned it’s decorative as there is marked parking on the road across their ‘drives’. I won’t park there if they have added an automobile decoration to their garden but if the block paving is empty then AFAIC it’s fair game.

I don't think so. We've entire roads where the whole kerb is "traversable" so the council highways department doesn't have to be cursed by motorists who want to tarmac their front garden instead of using the provided parking spaces a few metres further from their door. Now the drainage board has to be the villain, prosecuting them for tarmacking in a flood plain. :Roll:

 

[icowden]

Driving on the pavement is already an offence, and since to park on a pavement requires to have driven on the pavement, surely they can be done for that?

The problem is that they don't get done.
I see people regularly parking on the pavement entirely (council widened it to be a shared bicycle and pavement) near the wetherspoons. I've seen deliveroo riders travelling along the pavement to cut the corner into the high street so they don't have to go round the one way.
Then there's the McLazyArses who park on the double yellows and zebra zig zags...

The council send out a warden on Saturday nights now, but it's still like the wild west.
I sent a photo to the cops of a van man that parks on the pavement during the school run, but nothing.

There is no interest in enforcement around here.

 

[mjr]

The problem is that they don't get done.
I see people regularly parking on the pavement entirely (council widened it to be a shared bicycle and pavement) near the wetherspoons.

If it's been turned into a cycleway properly, it's an offence to park on it, not only to drive along it.

There is no interest in enforcement around here.

That's the central problem.