Parking half on the kerb

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I live on a small cul de sac. Its a 70's estate so 2/3/4 cars per house was never anticipated. However its 2025 and we are where we are. Personally I'll leave my car on the kerb then when the wife is home I'll go out and put mine on the drive at 9 or 10 pm. However I appreciate - as do other residents on our street that in order for bin lorries and emergency vehicles its best to keep it as clear as possible. There has been an issue over the last couple of years where after there was a new estate built behind us ( no vehicular access but pedestrian access) people find their door mirrors folded in by people who insist on walking up the pavement (in one case needing replacement). As its a recent development its taken that its the newbies over the back PLUS we always just walk up the street because there are so few cars come up it so its safe to do so. As an addition I would point out that today a tradesman decided kerb parking was not for him and he parked on the street. That made passing his van impossible ( he knew it was an issue coz he had folded his door mirror in ) so a patient transport ambulance returning a resident to our street had to go door to door asking him to move his van for access.

My question is - who is right? The people bending mirrors in when they have access the other side of a vehicle or the people parking on the kerb - bearing in mind some have no room for all their cars?
 
In Scotland local councils are starting to target cars parked on pavements, a bit half heartedly at the moment but a couple of local councils near here have made declarations of intent. The national legislation to enforce this was passed a couple of years ago.
 
Parking on kerbs which are for people to walk on is a cunts trick, especially if there isn't enough room for the pedestrian to easily walk past. What about disabled people, in wheelchairs? Should they have to go into the road to pass? Not that I do it myself but anyone blocking a pavement deserves to have their car keyed and their wing mirror broken.
 
Parking on the pavement is a no no and should be booked just like the fuckers who block roads at traffic lights because they have entered the yellow boxes, soon so out the black hole of 20billion
 
Roads are for cars, pavements are for people.

Most of our streets were built before people decided everyone in the household needed a car each, fucking ridiculous how most street are unwalkable and practically single lane because too many cars exist parked on both sides and many half/half road and kerb.

Now it is the modern age and so peoples need for a car each won't change, what should be banned is this taking work vans/lorrys home and parking them up, the way companies like argos, mitre, british gas etc no longer have depots you pick the van up from, and so now you take it home clogging up residential streets. It should be banned, have a car drive to work pick up your van, as it was in the past.
 
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The Stockport Iniesta said:
Parking on kerbs which are for people to walk on is a cunts trick, especially if there isn't enough room for the pedestrian to easily walk past. What about disabled people, in wheelchairs? Should they have to go into the road to pass? Not that I do it myself but anyone blocking a pavement deserves to have their car keyed and their wing mirror broken.
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Add to that parking in cycle lanes, go past the Christie and the whole stretch is full of parked cars because they won't pay the car park fee or like next to the place.
 
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The Stockport Iniesta said:
Parking on kerbs which are for people to walk on is a cunts trick, especially if there isn't enough room for the pedestrian to easily walk past. What about disabled people, in wheelchairs? Should they have to go into the road to pass? Not that I do it myself but anyone blocking a pavement deserves to have their car keyed and their wing mirror broken.
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Lazy entitled cunts with no consideration for others, typical of today’s society unfortunately
 
DelToro said:
Years ago there used to be a poster on here called urmston who had 3 obsessions:

1. Cars parked on pavements
2. Cyclists on pavements
3. BBC

A curtain twitcher of the highest order.
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BBC as in the national broadcaster or the more mdern slang term?

Cycling on pedestrian free pavements is a sometimes necessary action, especially on tight roads with audi drivers passing you hugging the kerbside.
 
bluethrunthru said:
I live on a small cul de sac. Its a 70's estate so 2/3/4 cars per house was never anticipated. However its 2025 and we are where we are. Personally I'll leave my car on the kerb then when the wife is home I'll go out and put mine on the drive at 9 or 10 pm. However I appreciate - as do other residents on our street that in order for bin lorries and emergency vehicles its best to keep it as clear as possible. There has been an issue over the last couple of years where after there was a new estate built behind us ( no vehicular access but pedestrian access) people find their door mirrors folded in by people who insist on walking up the pavement (in one case needing replacement). As its a recent development its taken that its the newbies over the back PLUS we always just walk up the street because there are so few cars come up it so its safe to do so. As an addition I would point out that today a tradesman decided kerb parking was not for him and he parked on the street. That made passing his van impossible ( he knew it was an issue coz he had folded his door mirror in ) so a patient transport ambulance returning a resident to our street had to go door to door asking him to move his van for access.

My question is - who is right? The people bending mirrors in when they have access the other side of a vehicle or the people parking on the kerb - bearing in mind some have no room for all their cars?
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The person at fault is the council planner who allowed a pedestrian walkway from a new estate onto what already was a very overcrowded street
 
I object to people parking on the pavement that you can’t walk on the sodding thing as they’ve not left enough room to do so, therefore forcing you into the road. I’ve been sorely tempted to scratch the car when attempting to walk passed on the pavement.

Surely as long as people don’t double park, the road should be wide enough to park on? Unless it’s a van or an SUV the size of a tank in which case I’d smash fuck out of it.

Aren’t the emergency services allowed by law to bulldoze their way through in emergency? I’d love to see that happen one day!!

Basically the world is full of inconsiderate twats.
 
Make the fuckers walk on the roads - and charge them road tax for doing so. Double if they're in a wheelchair.

Too many cars. Need more punitive taxes on single household, multi-car ownership similar to SDLT increases for second home ownership and a huge ramp up in public transport investment.
 
MikeF said:
I object to people parking on the pavement that you can’t walk on the sodding thing as they’ve not left enough room to do so, therefore forcing you into the road. I’ve been sorely tempted to scratch the car when attempting to walk passed on the pavement.

Surely as long as people don’t double park, the road should be wide enough to park on? Unless it’s a van or an SUV the size of a tank in which case I’d smash fuck out of it.

Aren’t the emergency services allowed by law to bulldoze their way through in emergency? I’d love to see that happen one day!!

Basically the world is full of inconsiderate twats.
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Especially those lazy twats who park on the pavement when they have a perfectly accessible drive that can fit one or more cars on.
 
For many terraced housed main roads in places like gorton, leve, burnage, clayton etc one way syatems need to be looked at where workable as some streets are so clogged with cars either side only the centre as a single lane is available, and when. a bus wants to go down it's absolute gridlock
 
urban genie said:
Roads are for cars, pavements are for people.

Most of our streets were built before people decided everyone in the household needed a car each, fucking ridiculous how most street are unwalkable and practically single lane because too many cars exist parked on both sides and many half/half road and kerb.

Now it is the modern age and so peoples need for a car each won't change, what should be banned is this taking work vans/lorrys home and parking them up, the way companies like argos, mitre, british gas etc no longer have depots you pick the van up from, and so now you take it home clogging up residential streets. It should be banned, have a car drive to work pick up your van, as it was in the past.
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And AA and RAC vans.
 
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