A pavement parking odyssey

[DRM]

Trucks. I had a work colleague who took exception to a sand lorry regularly parking in his street so he modified the end of his walking stick with a dart tip to give some steel on rubber action.
Never happened again.

Dicing with death doing that, they don't put HGV wheels in cages & inflate from a distance for nothing you know

 

[Drago]

Can't park there, then. Not complicated, is it?

Indeed.

I firmly believe we should be like Toyko prefecture, where if you can't prove to the authorities you have off road parking you don't qualify for the permit required to even purchase a car.

Except here people should pay triple the car tax if they don't have anywhere to store their car off the road.

People would soon bleat if I stored a garden shed or spare sofa in the road, yet littering the kerbside and footway with cars and restricting the highway that everyone paid for is somehow seen as normal.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Can't park there, then. Not complicated, is it?

A lot of vehicles to move, there's about 100 houses before the next 'main street' (on all 3)

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Too narrow

That’s not an excuse to park on a footway. If you can’t park fully on the road without causing such a restriction on it, it means you need to find somewhere else.

Sadly, enforcement is currently too weak in terms of financial penalty and frequency that we’ve lost our footways to lazy sods who prioritise their convenience over everything else.

 

[Drago]

A lot of vehicles to move, there's about 100 houses before the next 'main street' (on all 3)

It might sound unsympathetic , because it unashamedly is, but that's their problem.

The public have endured decades of inconvenience and danger as a result of people using the street as a car park and thus making their car storage problems our safety and convenience problem.

The time is long overdue for them to take ownership of and responsibility for their own problem.

If anyone is inconvenienced or endangered by this it should be those that own these vehicles, and not innocent third parties who are simply wanting to walk, cycle or drive along the roads that they've paid towards.

Making people take responsibility for the consequences of their own actions is so blindingly obvious, so hugely sensible, yet somehow stragengely alien.

 

[captain nemo1701]

My commute yesterday on a cyclepath on Cattle Market Road Bristol. Its not officially closed for the works nor are there any signs.
I did complain to McAlpines (site on right) but they came back with the fact they have a dedicated car park around the corner for their staff who don't park here (the lady from SRM did wander along and placed notes on some cars).

Now, I've just got to find out who it is!. They'll tell me to 'cycle in the road' and my defence would be 'Provide parking for your contractors, this is a cyclepath'. Plus, the brick paviors are starting to become uneven, sure sign of driving on them.

Any Bristol CC'ers use this route?.

 

[Drago]

The worst thing that ever happened was the deregulation of parking enforcement and the binning of police traffic wardens.

Bring them back, but four times as many of them.

 

[wiggydiggy]

My commute yesterday on a cyclepath on Cattle Market Road Bristol. Its not officially closed for the works nor are there any signs.
I did complain to McAlpines (site on right) but they came back with the fact they have a dedicated car park around the corner for their staff who don't park here (the lady from SRM did wander along and placed notes on some cars).

Now, I've just got to find out who it is!. They'll tell me to 'cycle in the road' and my defence would be 'Provide parking for your contractors, this is a cyclepath'. Plus, the brick paviors are starting to become uneven, sure sign of driving on them.

Any Bristol CC'ers use this route?.

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You can report that to Plod and the Carncil, apert from the fact they are parked on the pavement the double yellows apply to both sides of the lines.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

If those appeared here, no vehicles would negotiate 3 of the 4 parallel streets, where we live
The section we live on, is wider than further down, so there's almost 4 feet between most cars & the walls
(we're on a corner/junction of 2 lanes)

I thought wrongly about the width
I ought to have measured it, as it’s actually 5’6” from my Kodiaq to our boundary wall, & it’s even more for the ‘free Corsa’ & the ‘works Van’ (Yaris hybrid)
5’6” is wider than the pavements on a side-street close by that l cut down when riding to work

I know it looks less/odd here, but l did take a steel tape-measure to it



EDIT @ 17:06
The width of the pavement doesn't stop the kids heading to/home from fhe school opposite from rubbing down them, & scratching them
I'd had the Kodiaq less than a month before the first scratch appeared

 

[PeteXXX]

New estate near me... And they park on the opposite pavement, too..
Be interesting if the fire brigade did a cursory drive through!

 

[Dag Hammar]

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New estate near me... And they park on the opposite pavement, too..
Be interesting if the fire brigade did a cursory drive through!

I know it‘s not right to be parking on the pavement and I am in no way endorsing it, but, the problem is that when these developers plan housing they squeeze as many properties as they possibly can on to the available land.
In an ideal world the planning authorities should make it compulsory for every residence whether it is a flat or house have a minimum of two good sized parking spots. That would solve the kind of problem shown in the photo above.
As I said, in an ideal world !

 

[BoldonLad]

I know it‘s not right to be parking on the pavement and I am in no way endorsing it, but, the problem is that when these developers plan housing they squeeze as many properties as they possibly can on to the available land.
In an ideal world the planning authorities should make it compulsory for every residence whether it is a flat or house have a minimum of two good sized parking spots. That would solve the kind of problem shown in the photo above.
As I said, in an ideal world !

I believe there is a definition of parking spaces to residences for new builds, but, I don’t think it is anywhere near as generous as two spaces per dwelling.

Even two spaces per dwelling would probably be inadequate, if visitors etc are to be allowed for. One of our neighbours (2 people in house) have three vehicles. 😊

 

[DRM]

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New estate near me... And they park on the opposite pavement, too..
Be interesting if the fire brigade did a cursory drive through!

Many years ago on my parents street, there were two residents, dead opposite each other insisted on double parking, until there was a chip pan fire further down the street, the fire brigade forced them to move, and said if no one was in they would have rammed both vehicles out of the way, and they would pay for damage to the fire appliance! Stopped them parking like that again.

 

[wiggydiggy]

I know it‘s not right to be parking on the pavement and I am in no way endorsing it, but, the problem is that when these developers plan housing they squeeze as many properties as they possibly can on to the available land.
In an ideal world the planning authorities should make it compulsory for every residence whether it is a flat or house have a minimum of two good sized parking spots. That would solve the kind of problem shown in the photo above.
As I said, in an ideal world !

Sounds a like a legislation problem. I think is (some) cities in Japan that restrict you from owning a car unless you already have a safe legal place to park it.

 

[DCLane]

The close I live on doesn't have pavements. It's got bits of grass / visitor parking but each house has 1-2 spaces only. We've the biggest house on the street and can now fit three cars on the drive as I've squeezed space in. But ... between SWMBO and myself we have the three cars; when son no. 2 visits it's four. Most houses on the street have 2+ cars, so the 'visitor' parking is taken up by residents.

The designers knew the issue they were creating but clearly couldn't be bothered.