A pavement parking odyssey

[DCLane]

Reported a driver parked on zig-zags, on their phone, on Saturday. West Yorkshire are taking action.

Also, one from Friday that I submitted this afternoon as I couldn't work out how to get the video from the car dashcam onto my phone / PC. This one used the pavement / grass / wrong part of the road to bypass traffic on a dual carriageway. It may be a bit late but I'll see what happens.

 

[DCLane]

An update on Friday's bad driving - which just about fits here as they used the pedestrianised central reservation to overtake traffic: West Yorkshire Police are following it up with the driver.

 

[Alien8]

Cambridge guided busway car trap claims another victim.
More pictures here on FB.

 

[Drago]

Cambridge guided busway car trap claims another victim.
More pictures here on FB.

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Someone has a lot of paperwork in their immediate future!

 

[DCLane]

Someone has a lot of paperwork in their immediate future!

And probably some cake fines?

 

[DCLane]

Having reported a vehicle parked on zig-zag lines blocking a pedestrian crossing back on the 21st of December last year, today they were back doing it again.

West Yorkshire Police took action last time. Hopefully they'll do it again and - maybe - this time it'll start to hurt. Particularly as it's a 75-plate Merc GLE so expensive insurance.

 

[C R]

Having reported a vehicle parked on zig-zag lines blocking a pedestrian crossing back on the 21st of December last year, today they were back doing it again.

West Yorkshire Police took action last time. Hopefully they'll do it again and - maybe - this time it'll start to hurt. Particularly as it's a 75-plate Merc GLE so expensive insurance.

What kind of action? I don't suppose parking fines would have an effect on the insurance.

 

[DCLane]

What kind of action? I don't suppose parking fines would have an effect on the insurance.

Offence & Penalty: Stopping, parking, or overtaking on white zig-zags often results in a Fixed Penalty Notice (FPN) of £100 and 3 points.

 

[Drago]

And probably some cake fines?

Frowned upon now.

 

[C R]

Proper fine instead?

 

[Drago]

Proper fine instead?

I doubt the outcome would be any different in terms of actually punishment, but cake fines are considered bullying and were on their way out almost a decade ago when i went..

In the old barely-post-PACE days when I joined you've be called into the area commanders office (back then a full chief supernintendo) and shouted at until you've were quivering. Then, if you were lucky, you'd be facing a £100 fine to be donated to a charity of his choice.

If you were unlucky it would be a full misconduct job (not a 'disciplinary' as the idiot media report it) where you could be in serious sheet, but that would take something very serious to trigger and would be done with fairly swiftly.

I think back then that car would have been the bollarding, the £100 charity donation, and a 6 month to a year hold on any career plans you might have. A punishment meaningful enough to make you think twice next time, that didn't keep an experienced bobby out of circulation for 2 years on restricted duties while civilians who had never walked a beat investigated it, and which was over and done with then and there.

Today it'd be a full investigation that might take a year or more, a hearing, the public invited to watch, and an enormous waste of everyone's precious time for likely a good bollarding from the area commander, a written warning, and 6 month to a year hold on any career plans you might have...

 

[Mike_P]

Aside from restrictive parking on new estates theres the barking arrangement of corner houses that have their parking spaces at the end of the garden. Plainly obvious the occupiers are going to park smack outside their front door and most likely on the pavement.

 

[postman]

The thing in Meanwood and Moortown is to park on grass verges,chew the whole lot up leaving mass mud messes and deep grooves.They don't give a shoot as long as the car does not get damaged actually being parked on the road.

 

[Drago]

The thing in Meanwood and Moortown is to park on grass verges,chew the whole lot up leaving mass mud messes and deep grooves.They don't give a shoot as long as the car does not get damaged actually being parked on the road.

As a parish councillor I deal with this on my manor.

One extreme case involved a family of motorists who utterly obliterated the wide verge outside their house. A log of VRMs over a period of time demonstrated it was only them doing it, and instantly pre-empted and negated any defence they might invent.

They were given a choice of pay £1500 for the district council to dig it over and re turf it, or face court. They got a contractor of their own in to repair it, which is what we'd quietly hoped they'd do but couldn't officially ask for.

A year on theyve started creeping back on and its beginning to get churned up again so the lesson seems to have been quickly forgotten.

 

[postman]

The trouble is times have changed since 1946.Where i live two housing estates were built 1946-7-8-9.Cars were like hen's teeth.Since the 50's a shopping centre,private estates library doctors surgery schools ,families now have two to four cars,the roads have not been made wider.Driveways were not built on the council estates,,but gawd help them getting scratched,plus anti social behaviour so more and more take them off the road,and foot the rest of you.