A pavement parking odyssey

[Drago]

The police take little notice because in most areas the enforcement has been decriminalised and the powers devolved to the local authorities.

 

[mjr]

The police take little notice because in most areas the enforcement has been decriminalised and the powers devolved to the local authorities.

Can highway obstruction policing be decriminalised? Was that one of the new ones last year?

 

[Dec66]

Can highway obstruction policing be decriminalised? Was that one of the new ones last year?

Suella will sort out the me... Oh.

 

[T4tomo]

Suella will sort out the me... Oh.

dont worry its on John Major's list for next week.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Here's a treat for all you who love to hate Audi weenie extension 4x4's! As I left my flat today to walk to my car, I saw this big object blocking most of the pavement. Mmm, they haven't even had the decency to put their wing mirror in I thought, so let's elbow it as I walk past I thought. I elbowed it, trying to knock it forward, but the thing didn't move at all. Damn I thought, then as I passed it and turned to look at the big monstrosity I saw a nice yellow ticket on the windscreen courtesy of Lancashire County Council's Highways Department! It must've been there from last night, as after 8am you're not allowed to park on that single yellow line.


Result...as they say!!

 

[Slick]

Here's a treat for all you who love to hate Audi weenie extension 4x4's! As I left my flat today to walk to my car, I saw this big object blocking most of the pavement. Mmm, they haven't even had the decency to put their wing mirror in I thought, so let's elbow it as I walk past I thought. I elbowed it, trying to knock it forward, but the thing didn't move at all. Damn I thought, then as I passed it and turned to look at the big monstrosity I saw a nice yellow ticket on the windscreen courtesy of Lancashire County Council's Highways Department! It must've been there from last night, as after 8am you're not allowed to park on that single yellow line.


Result...as they say!!

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Hopefully you did the same to the van mirrors.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Then when I got home about an hour ago I saw this. I just managed to squeeze through in my little Fiat 500, but all other cars had to reverse when they approached it. I sat in my car for a good half hour and saw about 12 cars that had to reverse as they were too big to get through that gap.

The high viz bloke owns the grey car on the right of the above photo. He was certainly on patrol, watching for anyone attempting to get through that narrow gap, who might bump his car. I heard him say to someone that he thinks the owner is in the nearby yoga place. He then headed there, coming out 5 minutes later, but without the driver. I then heard him say to the same person that she's busy and will move it after her class. As I left the scene I saw him put a note under her windscreen wiper, probably pointing out how her bad parking had inconvenienced him and others. I think I might've been tempted to do a bit of tyre deflation on the offending vehicle, but then I suppose the idiot who owns it wouldn't be able to move it, which would kind of defeat the object!

 

[captain nemo1701]

Is anyone here using Cattle Market Road near Temple Meads in Bristol?. McAlpine have turned the cyclepath into a drop down delivery zone & parking area. Last week they were unloading a big 360 excavator from a low-loader right in the middle of the path, possibly damaging the brick paviors not designed for traffic (nearby Oxford Street is awful for undulating paviors), but oddly this morning managed to park a massive truck carrying a pre fab girder section in the road parking bay. Cars/vans are squeezed up against the railings having driven up over the pavement/cycle path. Plus, they've got a heck of a load of mud spilling out of the entrance, onto the road etc. When our firm works on site, we have wheel washes before you leave!. Stroppy email & photos methinks?.

 

[Drago]

Aye, they're supposed to wash the vehicles down before leaving and it's a standard condition in the planning approval, but it takes time and effort to do and time and effort to enforce.

 

[Windle]

Is anyone here using Cattle Market Road near Temple Meads in Bristol?. McAlpine have turned the cyclepath into a drop down delivery zone & parking area. Last week they were unloading a big 360 excavator from a low-loader right in the middle of the path, possibly damaging the brick paviors not designed for traffic (nearby Oxford Street is awful for undulating paviors), but oddly this morning managed to park a massive truck carrying a pre fab girder section in the road parking bay. Cars/vans are squeezed up against the railings having driven up over the pavement/cycle path. Plus, they've got a heck of a load of mud spilling out of the entrance, onto the road etc. When our firm works on site, we have wheel washes before you leave!. Stroppy email & photos methinks?.

As a main contractor they are supposed to keep the access roads clean, using a roadsweeper if necessary, as well as providing a wheel wash. I'm sure McAlpine are a member of the 'Considerate Contractors Group' too. If the site is stoned up properly there shouldn't be any mud getting tramped about anyway.

 

[captain nemo1701]

Aye, they're supposed to wash the vehicles down before leaving and it's a standard condition in the planning approval, but it takes time and effort to do and time and effort to enforce.

I'll take photos on tomorrows commute.

 

[mjr]

Aye, they're supposed to wash the vehicles down before leaving and it's a standard condition in the planning approval, but it takes time and effort to do and time and effort to enforce.

In Norfolk, the standard condition seems merely that a construction traffic management plan must be agreed with the council. Of course, you hope that the council won't agree to dangerous practices, but there be seem to be some officers who will sign off any old rubbish, apparently unchecked. One builder simply omitted cycleways from their plan and the council officer didn't pick them up on it, so the contractor treated it as if it was a footway and left it lumpy as hell after their work, within the minimum standard for walking but not smooth enough for riding.

Anyway, I hope Bristol do better.

 

[Drago]

I'll take photos on tomorrows commute.

It is an offence to deposit anything on or above a highway that could endanger or inconvenience a user if that highway, so its worth emailthe carncil and reminding them of their lawful obligations with regards tomkeeping the highway safe and clear.

 

[Poacher]

Not pavement parking, but a textbook demonstration of how to take up four parking spaces with one car.

Taken this morning in Lidl Netherfield car park, ~8:30

 

[newfhouse]

Not pavement parking, but a textbook demonstration of how to take up four parking spaces with one car.
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Taken this morning in Lidl Netherfield car park, ~8:30

It looks like there’s enough room to get a trolley down the left side but you’d have to be really careful to avoid damage.