A pavement parking odyssey

[Accy cyclist]

Because there is a gap in the double yellow lines.

I don't know what that dropped kerb is for, it isn't the type designed for disabled people because they all have the tactile pavng.

I'm going to have to ask a 'parking enforcement officer' the next time I see one if that dropped kerb is meant for wheelchair and mobility scooter access or not.🤔

 

[travellingwest]

If there isn't a white H painted on the road in that gap of double yellows, he can legit park there I think. And clearly he knows it. If there were a white H painted, then legally he can't. I only know this because I was going to pay for a dropped kerb and said white H outside my old house to enable motorbike access at all times; this was the information the council gave me.

At my former home, a street of victorian houses with on street parking, we all used to leave each other space for our vehicles. But new neighbour across the road, had a regular visitor who would park right in the middle of two parking spaces. Ignorant g*t. I became very pee'd off with it so printed off a notice, explaining what a knob he was and how irritating he was to the residents, then spray glued said notice on his windscreen, right in his line of sight.
Oh what chuckles we all had watching him trying to scrape it off.

 

[Drago]

Blocking the dropped kerb is an offence in its own right.

The H markings are indicative, nothing more than a polite request, and carry no legal force.

 

[DRM]

It looks to me like the back end of that Bavarian Muppet Wagon (BMW) aka cockmobile is over the double yellow, therefore it's parked on the double yellow, but i'm not fully sure if that is a thing or not

 

[Drago]

It is indeed a thing.

 

[DRM]

It is indeed a thing.

I thought it was, but wasn't 100% sure

 

[Accy cyclist]

Blocking the dropped kerb is an offence in its own right.

The H markings are indicative, nothing more than a polite request, and carry no legal force.

Yes, I too think that no matter the circumstances, you aren't allowed to park over or next to a dropped kerb.

 

[Accy cyclist]

It looks to me like the back end of that Bavarian Muppet Wagon (BMW) aka cockmobile is over the double yellow, therefore it's parked on the double yellow, but i'm not fully sure if that is a thing or not

A 'traffic warden' once told me that cars parked just inside disabled bays without a blue badge won't be ticketed, but a few inches over double yellows equals a ticket.

 

[Alex321]

There is a narrow alley leading to some flats in this photo. Maybe the dropped kerb is to allow vehicles to mount the kerb to go through that alley, though isn't driving on pavements illegal?🤔

That is almost certainly what it is for.

And no, not when a dropped kerb has been (legally) installed. The whole point of vehicular dropped kerbs is to allow vehicular access over the footway. There will usually also be additional strengthening under the paving between the dropped kerb and the property entrance (though of course that is hidden under the paving).

I wasn't previously convinced it was a proper dropped kerb, since it doesn't look like a pedestrian one, and that alleyway wasn't visible in any of your previous photos.

Given the alleyway, I suspect the gap in teh double yellow lines is because they were going to put in the 'H' line, but haven't done so yet.