Parking half on the kerb

[G@zza]

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.

Have you tried getting on the car park there in the afternoon?

 

[bluethrunthru]

Not long ago the planning standard for modern housing was a maximum number of offroad parking spaces (to encourage not using cars). That's gone, now it's usually a minimum (unless there's other nearby provision), but the houses with maximums are now the houses with grown-up kids still living at home and with their own cars.

a by-product of pricing kids out of owning their own homes.

 

[One Fan Clapping]

“People who insist on walking on the pavement”.

The selfish feckers!!

 

[stonerblue]

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.

That.

 

[mosssideblue]

Absolutely no excuse for it

 

[We've got Guardiola]

The problem on our estate is people refuse to use their garage for their cars. We use ours because we only have a single space for a car.

Most have double length spaces and they still park on the road no doubt because their garages are full of shite.

Boils my blood. Back to curtain twitching. Starmer out.

 

[MellowJoe]

I go to and from work every day and almost without fail I park on the kerb, never had an issue

 

[give it to gordon]

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?

I put a lovely scratch down the side of a car when my lads were little and in a pram.
Simple choice do I risk putting my kids into the road to get round a car parked on the pavement or keep them safe and scratch the car. For me it was a no brainer, scratch the car.

 

[mosssideblue]

I go to and from work every day and almost without fail I park on the kerb, never had an issue

Can you speak for those you inconvenience?

 

[stonerblue]

Fella moved onto our street and has 3 motors. Two of em are old bangers that haven't moved in months. His direct neighbours are pissed off

 

[give it to gordon]

There was a case down here a few months ago where a mobility scooter got stuck between a wall and a car parked on the pavement. The fire brigade had to be called out to free him

 

[blueinsa]

Live in a cul de sac built in times when virtually nobody had a car and we have been told due to the narrowness of it by the fire service especially to all park down one side only and to use the kerb so to allow access for emergency vehicles when needed.

 

[MellowJoe]

Can you speak for those you inconvenience?

Nope, that's their look out

 

[bluetonium]

It's become a huge problem on our road just in the past 3 to 4 years that we have lived here. Complete lack of common sense, or selfishness, whatever it is, it's dangerous for our most vulnerable. Seems more people are banding together to be able to buy a house and thus more occupants and drivers per road, so they park even on a blind corner half on the pavement. Drives me mad, especially made when the actual driveway is empty, which is common. I happily let the dog piss up their walls or tyres.

Not enough room for a pushchair, and inconveniences both pavement and road users alike. Some are even dumb enough to double park on the same blind corner, and given the increase in delivery vans from Amazon to Asda, there are often damaged wing mirrors and scratched cars. A BMW X1 was the victim yesterday I noticed, and then you see the inevitable post of Facebook or somewhere "did anyone see who damaged my car..."

But they don't care, the inconvenience of parking 50ft further down the road is obviously more costly than the repairs. They don't even have the courtesy to tuck a mirror in, so I don't have the courtesy to not wear my leather jacket with metal zips and chains when I squeeze past on the school run. My daughter and I have almost been hit twice by drivers speeding round the corner (another issue, as the trend nowadays seems to be to drive at least the speed limit, and preferably partly over the middle line, to show dominance) as we are forced into the road, usually on bin day when for good measure the knobs plug the remaining pavement gap between car and wall with their bins, but there is not much to be done unfortunately. Just got to wait for the accident to happen then somebody may take notice, is pretty much what we were told.

It's also the main reason we won't let our youngest walk home alone from school yet. There's even one moron now who is doing up a house and thinks that entities him to park fully over the pavement, forcing people into the road. He's got laminate flooring to get out of the boot, but can't actually park on his own driveway because of all the nails and crap there. Parents picking up kids from the same school drive up on to the pavement at 15-20mph, towards fellow parents and kids walking to school, people our kids have been to parties and sleepovers with, before breaking harshly and flinging the little one out before speeding off again. Can't really walk the dog to school anymore as he's become terrified of cars after a couple of recent close calls.

I get that in some cases, on narrow roads or certain areas, there is a need to do this as a compromise. If you see others do it, you think you'd best do the same. But far too many do it nowadays through sheer empty-headedness. I would also say it links in to the urbanisation of our land, developers given near free roam to build on anything slightly green, but often without supporting infrastructure. This adds more cars to the area, some of which will contribute to the issue of pavement parking wherever they go.

As a example, just round the corner from us are a load of terraced houses with no off road parking, which is also a bus route and opposite another school. But nobody parks on the pavement there, they know better, in fact the only issues there are from a very stupidly thought out cycle lane they've put at the end of the road, giving cyclists priority, yet they're blocked from view of road users until the very last minute by the side of a terraces house and the car that parks outside it's own house and probably has done for decades.

 

[mosssideblue]

Nope, that's their look out

What a top bloke you are

 

[dickie davies]

Fella moved onto our street and has 3 motors. Two of em are old bangers that haven't moved in months. His direct neighbours are pissed off

Are they parked on the road?
If so, they have to be road taxed and you can check if they are by putting the registrations into this DVLA website

Chances are, that if they’re not Road taxed, they won’t be insured either

Enter the registration number of the vehicle - Check if a vehicle is taxed and has an MOT - GOV.UK

vehicleenquiry.service.gov.uk

 

[stonerblue]

Are they parked on the road?
If so, they have to be road taxed and you can check if they are by putting the registrations into this DVLA website

Chances are, that if they’re not Road taxed, they won’t be insured either

Enter the registration number of the vehicle - Check if a vehicle is taxed and has an MOT - GOV.UK

vehicleenquiry.service.gov.uk

I'm not that arsed as they are further down the street. My kind neighbours never park outside ours cos wife needs car as near to front door as possible.

 

[snorky]

There's also the issue of people with drives not using them.

As I look out of my window the two houses either side aren't using their drives and have 5 vehicles between them all on the road & one of the houses has 2 cars and a work van.

Your name is Michael Paine, and I collect....

 

[dickie davies]

I'm not that arsed as they are further down the street. My kind neighbours never park outside ours cos wife needs car as near to front door as possible.

PM me the registrations and street name
I'll dob the **** in

 

[stonerblue]

PM me the registrations and street name
I'll dob the **** in

GR4SS