Start enforcing it and the road will jam up at rush hour!
Oh - and the bit that leads to most of our estate would be impossible - some people would LITERALLY have nowhere to park their car (except their driveway of course!!!!)
My heart bleeds for them.
Not.
Footways are for people. I don't know why some car drivers struggle with that concept. Footways - people. Say it after me - footways, people. Easy, innit?
It's up to car drivers to park their cars safely and lawfully, even if that means they have a bit of a walk (and thats the issue, theyre allergic to walking.) It's not up to the rest of us to accommodate them.
Obstructing the footway to avoid obstructing the road is simply not acceptable. That's the car drivers problem, so what gives them the right to suddenly foist their problem off on pedestrians? Keep your problems to yourself, don't make them an SEP.
When I'm PM - surely any day now - there will be a £1000 car tax supplement for vehicles that are stored on the road. You can bet the problem will resolve itself right quick, much as it did in Tokyo prefecture when they effectively banned the ownership of cars (other than tiny Kei cars) unless the prospective purchaser could prove they had somewhere off road to store it.
These footway parkers wouldn't give a sheet if I bought a cow, sofa or a fridge and had nowhere to store them, and would bleat endlessly if I decided to store my fridge, sofa or cow in the road or on the footway, so why should we be any more solicitous towards them and their car storage problem?
I don't have a cow precisely because I have nowhere to keep it - clearly an olde fashioned concept these days.
