Accy cyclist
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- Location
- The hills of Accrington
Taken this afternoon. How the fark are we going to pass this? Yes,I know we can walk in the road,but is that acceptable?🤔
A pavement parking odyssey
- Thread starter Drago
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Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Unlike cars, its an offence to park an LGV on t'footway ay all.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Been planned by every government since Bliar but walkers just aren't a high enough priority to make any politician want the "war or motorists... Why can't we park on pavements? Waah!" headlines on GBNews and gutter press.
She should've scraped her pram up and down both pavements.Road near where I live, I had to pull into let a lady pushing a pram down the road pass this morning
You can barely walk the pavement on either side
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Drago
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- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
GB News have been refreshingly neutral on it. Indeed, all the wailing and gnashing of teeth before they even went on air has proven to be pretty hollow, as they seem happy to sensibly discuss all angles of most stories without really latching onto one position.
Indeed, they seem lot less willing to stake a claim on a position, particularly a political one, than the likes of the Beeb and TrotSKY news are, and are much more magnanamous about giving air time to allcomers, and much lass likely to get nasty and insulting than say, the Guardian, or Naga Munchetty.
Its just a shame the presenters are so boring, apart from Simon McCoy who is a bit cheeky without being nasty, so it's back the the NY Times for my news.
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Accy cyclist
Legendary Member
- Location
- The hills of Accrington
They always seem to pavement park right next to a lamp post to make the gap even narrower!
Accy cyclist
Legendary Member
- Location
- The hills of Accrington
What i find worse that pavement parking is driving on pavements. Around here we have an MOT centre/Audi/BMW garage,so you can imagine the amount of 'macho' self-gratification artists that turn up. We also have what's left of a small industrial unit,so wagons and vans are in and out of it all day and sometimes nights. All seem to think that if there's another self-gratification artist parked on the pavement narrowing the road then it's ok to just widen the road by using the pavement as the road! I've been walking along the pavement and had vehicles either approach me or tail me as if to say "Get out of my way,i've taken over this pavement, so feck your 'safe space'"!
KnittyNorah
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- Location
- The Frozen North (of England)
Agreed! I have been standing on the pavement chatting to a friend - careful to be out of the way of passers-by - on a small-town 'high street' (not residential with driveways etc) and we've been hooted at by drivers wanting to get on the pavement.
I always say to anyone I'm with who looks as if they might move out of the way, ignore them, they can't be hooting at us as we're not blocking anywhere they can drive ...
I've even been yelled at to move out of 'their' way! My response to that is to look around me in a puzzled fashion and reply, 'but I'm not in your way, I'm standing on the pavement ...'
captain nemo1701
Space cadet. Deck 42 Main Engineering.
- Location
- Bristol
WTF???
captain nemo1701
Space cadet. Deck 42 Main Engineering.
- Location
- Bristol
I once 'accidentally' stood in front of a bloke trying to drive his car up the dropped kerb to park here:
Its now a construction site for de-cladding a nearby tower but you can see someone thinks it's free parking. I once counted 9 cars parked along here, even behind the bus stop (yellow arrow).
When the Heras fencing came down a few years ago:
Bike stands added later reducing available space but there's always one person who thinks this is free parking. A week later, I spoke with a cop who was putting warning notices on all the cars. The bloke I stood in front of while ' fiddling with my mobile' wasn't too impressed and swore at me ....I'm beginning to think ownership of car really makes people feel entitled...
KnittyNorah
Ãœber Member
- Location
- The Frozen North (of England)
Oh yes, I've been sworn at by drivers for standing on the pavement chatting to a friend. Apparently by standing on the pavement we are 'in the way' of a car on the road ... the logic of it is frankly appalling.
We are perfectly entitled to b!00dy well sit on the pavement and have a brew if we so desire - as long as we are not blocking any other pedestrian's free passage - but woe betide us if the owner of a car or, even worse, a white van, wants to use that bit of the pavement for their own (illegal) purposes ...
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
Saturday outside the leisure centre where i take mini ck 2 swim lessons its double yellows on a steepish hill and a bus stop which many just park in anyway .A person female in this case although it makes no difference was crawling along the pavement i assume to drop off her kid for lessons too , the car park is literally a 2 minute walk at max and is free so ne excuses .I stop and she waves me through .
" You shouldnt be on the pavement in the 1st place" is my reply .
" You shouldnt be on the pavement in the 1st place" is my reply .
