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A pavement parking odyssey
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Do you have a thread about parking there conifers on the pavement making it hard to get past?
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Drago
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I have reported similar to the carnsil in the past and days later the Bush was neatly trimmed.
DRM
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Mrs Peabody complained to her neighbours that having moved into her parents old house, a complaint lead to her having to trim the bush she had been growing from being a teenager
And bushes don't even pay road tax!
ebikeerwidnes
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When my parents moved into their final home it was known locally as "Sherwood Forest" due to the row of Leylandai along the border wall
It had grown into a row of trees over 20 feet high and several feet out over the pavement
Fortunately my Uncle used to work for the local park authority - he actually managed the whole of the garage maintaining the tractors, lawnmowers and all that stuff
So he knew the people who cheked on and sorted out all the trees in all the parks
One of them was semi retired but lived locally and said these trees had been annoying him for YEARS and he would love to fix them
Everyone said trimming them back would kill them and they would never re-grow
But he knew better and said he could bring them down to about 8 feet and trim them back
then they would look bad for a couple of years but then thicken up and grow back if he came back a couple of times a year to trim them again
and it worked - did take several years but they grew back and looked much better
BUT - back to the point - they did initially take up a huge amount of the pavement and no-one ever complained (as far as they knew) and the counsel never asked for them to be trimmed
It was only done because they looked terrible
It had grown into a row of trees over 20 feet high and several feet out over the pavement
Fortunately my Uncle used to work for the local park authority - he actually managed the whole of the garage maintaining the tractors, lawnmowers and all that stuff
So he knew the people who cheked on and sorted out all the trees in all the parks
One of them was semi retired but lived locally and said these trees had been annoying him for YEARS and he would love to fix them
Everyone said trimming them back would kill them and they would never re-grow
But he knew better and said he could bring them down to about 8 feet and trim them back
then they would look bad for a couple of years but then thicken up and grow back if he came back a couple of times a year to trim them again
and it worked - did take several years but they grew back and looked much better
BUT - back to the point - they did initially take up a huge amount of the pavement and no-one ever complained (as far as they knew) and the counsel never asked for them to be trimmed
It was only done because they looked terrible
Accy cyclist
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If you can make it past that way over imposing on the pavement conifer crap you then have that white van you have to attempt to pass!
HMS_Dave
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If you can make it past that way over imposing on the pavement conifer crap you then have that white van you have to attempt to pass!
Yes, but Accy. The road isn't wide enough, so take your wheelchair and drop down the curb at risk of damage or toppling over and get in the middle of the road!
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If you can make it past that way over imposing on the pavement conifer crap you then have that white van you have to attempt to pass!
Or you choose the other side of the road & the 3 white cars there, the only advantage is they move, the conifers don't apart from upwards & outwards
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ooh heathcliff !!!
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Accy cyclist
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I think this (taken yesterday) is the narrowest gap I've seen/been left with, on my way from flat to car! Yes, 'you can walk on the grass', but that's not the point! 
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The driver is an utter cant erbury.I think this (taken yesterday) is the narrowest gap I've seen/been left with, on my way from flat to car! Yes, 'you can walk on the grass', but that's not the point!
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ebikeerwidnes
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I think this (taken yesterday) is the narrowest gap I've seen/been left with, on my way from flat to car! Yes, 'you can walk on the grass', but that's not the point!
Yes - you can walk on the grass -perfectly OK - I can do that
except when it is wet and the grass is muddy - not only do my shoes get muddy but the grass gets churned up
also the grass is not designed to cope with any volume of traffic and will wear out and become soil/mudd
also - ever tried pushing an adult in a wheelchair over grass??
and some mobility scooters have quite small wheels and might not be all that good over sloping grass
not really acceptable - they are just making people walk in the road
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Of course, if you slip in the grass and injure yourself the driver may be in bother.
What few folk appreciwte is that you don't need to physically collide with someone to be responsible for an injury. Your motor vehicle needs only be present on a road or other public place. If Accy walked round on the wet grass, slipped and broke his hip (and assuming I were still a copper) I'd book that van on as Vehicle (1).
The classic example is a vehicle that parks on a blind curve that forces drivers blindly into incoming traffic. The vehicle may not physically be touched at all, but its presence on a road is responsible for the resulting head on collision. Known similar get to court a couple of times over my 3 decades, including a blind man that fell and injured himself because some tool revving a stationary motorbike nearby gave the poor old feller the impression the bike was coming straight at him.
What few folk appreciwte is that you don't need to physically collide with someone to be responsible for an injury. Your motor vehicle needs only be present on a road or other public place. If Accy walked round on the wet grass, slipped and broke his hip (and assuming I were still a copper) I'd book that van on as Vehicle (1).
The classic example is a vehicle that parks on a blind curve that forces drivers blindly into incoming traffic. The vehicle may not physically be touched at all, but its presence on a road is responsible for the resulting head on collision. Known similar get to court a couple of times over my 3 decades, including a blind man that fell and injured himself because some tool revving a stationary motorbike nearby gave the poor old feller the impression the bike was coming straight at him.
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