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Drago
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A pavement parking odyssey
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Accy cyclist
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- The hills of Accrington
The above was parked on the same road,pavement as this one i took on the 10th of June.
Pavement parking is a major problem on that road. Every night there's at least 7 or 8 cars parked on the pavement. To make matters worse,that ivy you can see needs trimming back. Yes,you could squeeze through,but then you get covered in crap off the ivy!
T4tomo
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Our road was blocked by one of 2 ambulances and 4 police/ ambulance service cars that arrived en mass on Saturday for about an hour. Yes they were responding to an incident, but had the not parked the ambulance directly opposite a car parked on the opposite side of the road, then traffic could have got thru alternately. There was plenty of room to pull it 10 yards further forward
snorri
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- East coast, up a bit.
You can report the ivy as well.
iancity
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- Ashington, Northumberland
I did... they replied asking for a link...I sent them a link to this page...interesting to see what the response is...
Accy cyclist
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- The hills of Accrington
This is a polite request for residents of great harwood
Please can drivers in the Great Harwood area to be please be considerate when you park your cars.
I work with young people with a range of disabilities who are wheelchair users. We face struggles everyday trying to access our local community when cars are blocking drop down kerbs, blocking the full pavement !
One of our young people fought for months for drop down kerbs to be installed as they feel scared to go into the road. Some of these drop down kerbs have already been damaged with people parking on them !
Some of our young people get half way down the path and then have to turn around as there wheelchair isn't suitable to be able to drop of normal sized kerbs.
I understand parking is a nightmare and everyone wants to be able to park outside their own house but this really isn't acceptable.
Please please please think about people in wheelchairs and parents with prams !!
Thank you
The above was posted on a local facebook page this morning. I wouldn't have hidden the registrations!
Please can drivers in the Great Harwood area to be please be considerate when you park your cars.
I work with young people with a range of disabilities who are wheelchair users. We face struggles everyday trying to access our local community when cars are blocking drop down kerbs, blocking the full pavement !
One of our young people fought for months for drop down kerbs to be installed as they feel scared to go into the road. Some of these drop down kerbs have already been damaged with people parking on them !
Some of our young people get half way down the path and then have to turn around as there wheelchair isn't suitable to be able to drop of normal sized kerbs.
I understand parking is a nightmare and everyone wants to be able to park outside their own house but this really isn't acceptable.
Please please please think about people in wheelchairs and parents with prams !!
Thank you
The above was posted on a local facebook page this morning. I wouldn't have hidden the registrations!
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Drago
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A Go Electrical nodder.
Neither would I.
DCLane
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- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
Neither would I.
I reckon I could squeeze a nice metal pram through that gap. Or preferably a shopping trolley
Accy cyclist
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Neither would I.
I reckon I could squeeze a nice metal pram through that gap. Or preferably a shopping trolley
Or a nice wide 'doggie pram'!!! 😏
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Drago
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- Suburban Poshshire
Holy Trump. Even Accy's dog is well turned out!
KnittyNorah
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- The Frozen North (of England)
In the years of my severe visual impairment, I delight to think of how many wing mirrors I have damaged and side panels I have scratched as - with little useful eyesight beyond about a metre distance - I was NOT going to step out into a roadway when I could squeeze through and, small and elderly though I am, I am also sturdy, solid and very determined.
Delighted though I may have been at my ability to squeeze through and past, and hopeful as I am that idiots were disgruntled by damaged wing mirrors and the like, I was still - and remain, now I have my eyesight back - simply enraged at the sheer arrogance and ignorance of those who consider their individual convenience/laziness trumps the ability of the public in general to safely use public facilities such as the footway.
If I see vehicles with company logos etc I have no issue whatsoever in taking a photograph and forwarding said photograph to the company concerned. I sometimes think I might join FB - under a fake ID, perhaps? - for the sole purpose of publicising the type of parking that forces vulnerable road users into situations which presents them with even more danger.
GRRRRRRR!
Delighted though I may have been at my ability to squeeze through and past, and hopeful as I am that idiots were disgruntled by damaged wing mirrors and the like, I was still - and remain, now I have my eyesight back - simply enraged at the sheer arrogance and ignorance of those who consider their individual convenience/laziness trumps the ability of the public in general to safely use public facilities such as the footway.
If I see vehicles with company logos etc I have no issue whatsoever in taking a photograph and forwarding said photograph to the company concerned. I sometimes think I might join FB - under a fake ID, perhaps? - for the sole purpose of publicising the type of parking that forces vulnerable road users into situations which presents them with even more danger.
GRRRRRRR!
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Drago
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Well said Nora. Mrs D is a wheelchair user, and it fills me with despair that no wheelchair manufacturer offers a model with an M134 minigun option.
The sooner government act to ban this, the better. Indeed, this was being discussed on GBNews t'other day and it seems the government plan is to ban 'pavement'parking, parking on verges, and parking on those access bits that cross verges to get to driveways. Well, I wish the government would pull its finger out and bloodt well get on with it - its supposed to be "later this year", but can't come quick enough.
The sooner government act to ban this, the better. Indeed, this was being discussed on GBNews t'other day and it seems the government plan is to ban 'pavement'parking, parking on verges, and parking on those access bits that cross verges to get to driveways. Well, I wish the government would pull its finger out and bloodt well get on with it - its supposed to be "later this year", but can't come quick enough.
Accy cyclist
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I'm absolutely bloody seething after reading posts on here and seeing horrid pictures of totally inconsiderate,selfish parking!
I'm off out soon,with my camera to take more piss boiling pics!!
I'm off out soon,with my camera to take more piss boiling pics!!
KnittyNorah
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- The Frozen North (of England)
SCYTHES on the wheels - as Boudicca (in folk mythology only!) had. Or, as we used to say (working in Saudi Arabia in the 1970s, and discussing the likelihood of women being allowed to drive, and what we would want to drive there if that occurred) FLAILS on all four corners ...
I would think either of those would be a fairly simple add-on for a competent DIY-er, although the flails would require some sort of shielding facility for both user, and pusher (if required), of the wheelchair, and the scythes would need to be retractable in some way.
