Badly Parked Cars!

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summerdays

summerdays

Cycling in the sun
Location
Bristol
subaqua said:
unless signs state you are permittted to do so.

Waltham forest has a new policy of widening pavements for cars to park wholly on, rather than 2 wheels only as they used to be allowed to do ( olympic streetscene alledgedly) .
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I was talking to someone in the council about this and he said that they didn't want to encourage parking on the pavements as they hadn't been designed to stand that weight parked on them continuously and it lead to services being damaged.
 
subaqua

subaqua

What’s the point
Location
Leytonstone
waltham forest have designed them to in this case. sadly. apparently it makes it safer for cyclists. all it has done is remove one problem- tailgaters revving engines, and replaced it with dooring hazards if you use the cycle lane :whistle:

how this is safer i don't know. I just continue to ride primary. although most bits like this i am moving at a fair speed anyway. not sure how fast as the batteries for the cycle puter cost more than buying it :ohmy:
 
400bhp

400bhp

Guru
People are just lazy and many are lazy & inconsiderate.

For example:

The nursery where my daughter goes has 4 parking spaces. There is a rugby club over the road with ample parking and they (the rugby club) are happy to allow people visiting the nursery to park there.

I always park in the rugby club as mostly the nursery's car park is full.

Yet, some will park up in the full car park in non existent spaces.:rolleyes:

The nursery has sent out 3 emails over the space of 6-12 months asking parents to be more considerate (no idea how many times they did this before m daughter went there). It clearly falls on deaf ears.

I challenged one mother tonight. She was half in-half out of the car park waiting for a space and taking up a fair chunk of the pavement (we had to walk behind her vehicle). I managed to tell her in a way that was non-confrontational that the rugby club allow you to park over the road. Her "excuse" was that she has a child in the tots class :rolleyes: She had another child in the back so I can only assume it was too much effort for her to put the other child in a (double) pram and WALK. Now I come to think of it I think she was the one last week who pretty much pushed past my daughter and I when we were half way down some steps (I suspect she had left the other child in the car whilst she rushed in to pick the other one up). Self centered. :angry:
 
summerdays

summerdays

Cycling in the sun
Location
Bristol
I'm hoping I'm responsible for one getting either a ticket or a tow today ... I've reported it as obstructing the highway first thing this morning after struggling to see a taxi get through the gap (don't know if I want to go back and find out if it is still there or not - I'll find out on my way to school later).
 
Arch

Arch

Married to Night Train
Location
Salford, UK
summerdays said:
I'm hoping I'm responsible for one getting either a ticket or a tow today ... I've reported it as obstructing the highway first thing this morning after struggling to see a taxi get through the gap (don't know if I want to go back and find out if it is still there or not - I'll find out on my way to school later).
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Either you've got your syntax wrong, or you need glasses... ;)
 
cd365

cd365

Guru
Location
Coventry, uk
JamesAC said:
What an astonishing attitude!

Pavements are for pedestrians. They are not overspill additional parking facilities for motorists! You have no right to park on the pavement, certainly morally, and in London, legally. Parking on the pavement presents yet more hazards to pedestrians, especially less able ones, and damages the curb and the pavement.

And the road is not yours to park in, either. You have no right to park anywhere on the highway unless it's at a parking meter, and you've paid the appropriate fee; or in a residents' parking zone, and you've got a permit.

Why on earth do motorists, uniquely, assume that the public highway is the correct place to store their property? People don't erect garden sheds, conservatories, cucumber frames on so on in the road - they'd get short shrift if they did.
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Get your pitch fork out and ban cars! Where do you suggest people park their cars then?
 
summerdays

summerdays

Cycling in the sun
Location
Bristol
Arch said:
Either you've got your syntax wrong, or you need glasses... ;)
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With me it would always be bad grammar, or spelling... :biggrin:


cd365 said:
Get your pitch fork out and ban cars! Where do you suggest people park their cars then?
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Well not on cycle lanes, not right next to a junction, or across a dropped kerb for pedestrians to cross or on a blind bend or where they don't leave sufficient space that a large vehicle such as a fire engine could get past and not on the pavements forcing pedestrians to walk in the road especially those that need a little more space such as those with buggies, and wheel-chairs etc. These are all examples I see on a daily basis.

(And I note that the car I reported earlier is no longer there ... :whistle: )
 
summerdays

summerdays

Cycling in the sun
Location
Bristol
troyka said:
hi i hadn't been b4, i like it, feel free to post any of my bristol parking pic to it, (with credit)
T
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He does credit the suppliers of the photos and you can even write your own tongue in cheek submission to go with them too sometimes :biggrin:
 
cd365

cd365

Guru
Location
Coventry, uk
summerdays said:
Well not on cycle lanes, not right next to a junction, or across a dropped kerb for pedestrians to cross or on a blind bend or where they don't leave sufficient space that a large vehicle such as a fire engine could get past and not on the pavements forcing pedestrians to walk in the road especially those that need a little more space such as those with buggies, and wheel-chairs etc. These are all examples I see on a daily basis.
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Agreed to the above, but a car can be partially parked on the pavement without causing an obstruction.
 
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