Badly Parked Cars!

[DrSquirrel]

I think the sweeping bends of some of these news estates doesn't help either... and the same for children's safety as I don't think many people go any slower.

Do you not have driveways there?

 

[cd365]

Yes there are driveways, but one driveway in the 21st century is not enough.
My wife and my son both have cars. Nearly every house on the estate has more than one car.

 

[John the Monkey]

Yes there are driveways, but one driveway in the 21st century is not enough.
My wife and my son both have cars. Nearly every house on the estate has more than one car.

We're one of two households with one car on our road.

Next door have three (one for each adult of driving age).

Folk across the road (both retired, somehow unable to figure out a way to share one vehicle) have one each.

People we lived next to at our old house had five (one for each adult of driving age) and a taxi, and would frequently park on our drive if they thought we were out.

It's ridiculous - and a great many people simply don't use their drives or garages.

 

[cd365]

People we lived next to at our old house had five (one for each adult of driving age) and a taxi, and would frequently park on our drive if they thought we were out.

That would have wound me up the first time I got home and couldn't park on my drive, they wouldn't have done it a second time!

 

[DrSquirrel]

I hate this "21st Century" excuse... it has no meaning so isn't really an excuse.

 

[John the Monkey]

That would have wound me up the first time I got home and couldn't park on my drive, they wouldn't have done it a second time!

They were very inconsiderate people - we were glad to leave that house.

 

[abo]

People we lived next to at our old house had five (one for each adult of driving age) and a taxi, and would frequently park on our drive if they thought we were out.

It's ridiculous - and a great many people simply don't use their drives or garages.

They'd only have done that once if they lived next to me

My mate has five cars between him and his missus, a lift-kitted and snorkled Land Rover, his company car, her car, a people carrier and a 328 GTS which lives in the garage. He's got a MTB in the garage too, he sells a lot of industrial pumps :/

 

[dand_uk]

we should do with cars what china did for people wanting children - limit the number of cars per familty to one unless you pay a huge amount to the government for the second.

Can't see why every adult of driving age MUST have a car, but I do live within 4 miles of work, some people do not.

 

[summerdays]

I think the sweeping bends of some of these news estates doesn't help either... and the same for children's safety as I don't think many people go any slower.

Do you not have driveways there?

I passed a car parked on a driveway in a new estate recently and noticed the car was overhanging the pavement, but for once I didn't get annoyed at them, instead at the builders/planners who had allowed a drive to be built that was too short to fit a car onto!

 

[JamesMorgan]

No excuse for parking on the pavement, but entirely legal to park on cycle path unless it has a solid white line (most don't). Personally I think this should be changed as it makes a mockery of having a cycle path.

 

[abo]

No excuse for parking on the pavement, but entirely legal to park on cycle path unless it has a solid white line (most don't). Personally I think this should be changed as it makes a mockery of having a cycle path.

The ones in my street do. Definately time to take some pictures and have a moan to my local councillor, now that I actually use the cycle lanes. Hmm that statement makes me feel a bit dirty, I previously tutted but never bothered complaining until it directly affected me...

 

[gambatte]

Try plod. Usually local councils are now handling yellow lines and their infringements. Obstructions etc (which is what I believe this is) is still the domain of local coppers.

 

[marinyork]

The ones in my street do. Definately time to take some pictures and have a moan to my local councillor, now that I actually use the cycle lanes. Hmm that statement makes me feel a bit dirty, I previously tutted but never bothered complaining until it directly affected me...

Solid white lines refer to whether you are allowed to cross a line or not. Trivially, if you are not allowed to drive somewhere you aren't allowed to park there . The added parking restrictions are there on top, you don't actually need them at all unless the cycle lane is part time (which requires another sign). JamesAC is a little muddled that is all. It is extremely explicit you aren't allowed to park or drive on a cycle path.

 

[MrHappyCyclist]

No excuse for parking on the pavement, but entirely legal to park on cycle path unless it has a solid white line (most don't). Personally I think this should be changed as it makes a mockery of having a cycle path.

Well, as I understand it, it is not actually illegal to park on the pavement except in London! It's just downright bad manners, as is parking in an advisory cycle lane.

HC Rule 244: You MUST NOT park partially or wholly on the pavement in London, and should not do so elsewhere unless signs permit it. Parking on the pavement can obstruct and seriously inconvenience pedestrians, people in wheelchairs or with visual impairments and people with prams or pushchairs.

 

[Mad at urage]

The pavements where I live couldn't be used by "people in wheelchairs or with visual impairments and people with prams or pushchairs" and are never used by pedestrians; they are about 18 inches wide at the widest, interrupted continually be drives (some of which are as long as half the length of a car) so much that in most places they are non-existent.

People walk on the roads (it is a cul-de-sac) and the only people who cross the pavement outside my house are coming too my back gate, so (like everyone else around here) I park on it.

Circumstances differ. Roads are for People and most in my cul-de-sac drive with that in mind (all indeed, except for a couple of youths who their parents try to reeducate).