A pavement parking odyssey

[stephec]

If I lived near a school and had a driveway with two cars that kept getting blocked I'd be tempted to put one in front of my drive, then the other one about ten feet behind it, taking up as much space as possible in front of my house.

Either that or park round the corner and wait until someone blocks my drive, then bring my cars back and go front and back of them blocking them in. 😂

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

@stephec
My Kodiaq lives outside, generally in exactly the same spot (so I can see it easily from our bedroom. & if there's any scrotes been at it, taking wheels, I can see the change in position, relative to the boundary wall)
Garage could hold 2 cars, & has in the past, now a 1/3rd of is has items stored in there, & my trailer (SWMBOs Q3 lives in rhere)
Wifes 'works-van' (Toyota Yaris hybrid) lives on street too, daughters M-B sometimes is on drive

 

[stephec]

@stephec
My Kodiaq lives outside, generally in exactly the same spot (so I can see it easily from our bedroom. & if there's any scrotes been at it, taking wheels, I can see the change in position, relative to the boundary wall)
Garage could hold 2 cars, & has in the past, now a 1/3rd of is has items stored in there, & my trailer (SWMBOs Q3 lives in rhere)
Wifes 'works-van' (Toyota Yaris hybrid) lives on street too, daughters M-B sometimes is on drive

There's probably not many garages that are used for their original purpose, with the size of modern cars now older garages aren't exactly spacious.

 

[Drago]

I have two garages, one built with the house in the 60s and a later 2 car tandem job I think dates to the 80s. You might fit a Morris 1100 or an A35 in the older garage, but nothing made in recent decades will fit in there.

 

[DCLane]

When we bought our 1996-built house in 2004 the car 2 had, a 1995 Rover 400, it wouldn't fit in the garage. Fortunately our plan was to convert it to a home office, which was started a week later.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

SOme years ago the road where I lived arranged a NeighbourHood Watch meeting with a local community Police Officer.

He did a short talk and asked for questions - one of the things he was quite keen on was people leaving their cars on their driveway if they had one
He reckoned that a house with an empty drive was more likely to be burgled than one with a car parked on it

He said a few useful things - my neighbours not so much!!
(especially like the old bloke moaning about the f entrances and exit to a "close" - we only ever found 3 or 4 (depening on the definition) unless he was worried about invasion by helicopter.
Also - lots of complaints about how the Police never attend when there is a problem - turned out no-one had ever rung them about it because it was "someone else's responsibility to do something"

but still - the copper was useful to listen to - they must dred such meeting with "concerned citizens"!

 

[icowden]

There's probably not many garages that are used for their original purpose, with the size of modern cars now older garages aren't exactly spacious.

All of the houses in my area were built by a developer in about 1986-1990. Every house has a garage. You can get a car in there but not get out of the car. They are completely pointless. In my BiL's street they are also "protected" in that the Council won't permit conversions as it would "spoil the look". So the majority are now garage doors with a wall behind.

 

[Stephenite]

Well. If anyone is interested I have a garage (wide enough to park in) to let!

 

[Accy cyclist]

I have two garages, one built with the house in the 60s and a later 2 car tandem job I think dates to the 80s. You might fit a Morris 1100 or an A35 in the older garage, but nothing made in recent decades will fit in there.

I bet my Fiat 500 would easily fit in it!

 

[Alex321]

All of the houses in my area were built by a developer in about 1986-1990. Every house has a garage. You can get a car in there but not get out of the car. They are completely pointless. In my BiL's street they are also "protected" in that the Council won't permit conversions as it would "spoil the look". So the majority are now garage doors with a wall behind.

Our house was built in 1998 with a double garage, and you could actually fit both of our cars in it as it was built.

But we have partitioned off the rear 8 feet for a laundry room and workshop (where my lathe lives), and the rest is completely full of various things. The cars sit on the drive outside the garage.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I thought it was normal for garages to be full of proper stuff

like bikes and old tyres, wheels, tools and other important things

mind you - cyclists have nothing on dinghy sailors who can easily fill garage with sets of sails and spars and a wide variety of string of various colours
and probably a boat if it is big enough

 

[potsy]

My neighbour has a 5m drive & a 6m van, he often parks in it leaving the remaining metre sticking out onto the pavement, virtually blocking it!

 

[fossyant]

We live opposite a junior School, so hence it's busy here at the appropriate times(1)
Earlier in the week, a woman parked over the driveway gates (2), at about 14:45, wandered off, to chat with other mums at the gates
At 15:10, it was still there (3)
Feeling slightly belligerent, I went out, opened the gates, got SWMBO's Q3 thing, out of the garage, as though I was wanting to leave
15:15, she returns
"It's a good job that I wasn't in a rush, with you parked over my gates, or had any kind of emergency call on the phone"

If she'd apologised, or even been confrontational, it would have been fine
All she said was.........."Yes" & got in the car

As @Drago states, it's not illegal, but courtesy ought to dictate that you don't park over a drive, & leave it unattended

I was very tempted, if the house had been locked, to get in it & follow her, see where she lived, wait till (hopefully) she parked on her driveway, & then parked over it. & gone for a walk


1. Summer holidays start; Wednesday 26th July
2. My daughters junior school (they called it a 'Prep school!) was in a residential area, but I can't recall ever seeing a parent park over a driveway
3. I'm sure she's parked there before

Never ever say anything to a mum on the school run, especially parking. Let's say our Primary got the cops in to deal with them.

 

[fossyant]

Need to get some YPLAC stickers !

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Never ever say anything to a mum on the school run, especially parking. Let's say our Primary got the cops in to deal with them.

Bullshire Police, which may, or may not, have been @Drago Force, distributed this free magazine to ‘school-run mums’