If they're blocking the pavement you can (from memory) ring the police non emergency number.
If it's a regular thing bring it up with your local council - they've been known to send in the traffic wardens (or have the wardens include the area in a more frequent check).
Roads are for driving on, pavements are for walking....nothing hysterical about that. Maybe we should all start walking on the roads, getting in the way of the cars. Fairs, fair!
I was warned by the police when I parked outside my house with two wheels on the pavement, 'causing an obstruction' would have been the offence.
In my road the choice is to park with two wheels on the pavement and block anyone pushing a triple width pram or park on the road and block access for emergency vehicles and delivery vans. It has only been a problem in more recent years as cars have been getting wider. A few years ago my land rover was one of the widest cars in the road but now it is one of the smallest.
I totally agree OP it really is annoying. The amount of times I see people having to walk in the road because of a driver parking on the pavement. :mad:
In my road the choice is to park with two wheels on the pavement and block anyone pushing a triple width pram or park on the road and block access for emergency vehicles and delivery vans.<snipped>.
.... or park somewhere else where you won't cause an obstruction of course
Same question can be asked about cyclist on the pavement, I have been run into on three separate occasions, and on Friday of last week a neighbour returned home for the first time in THREE months after recovering from surgery & recuperation after being knocked down by a pavement cyclist, he finds walking difficult after having a broken thighbone & a metal plate inserted in his thigh
Roads are for driving on, pavements are for walking....nothing hysterical about that. Maybe we should all start walking on the roads, getting in the way of the cars. Fairs, fair!
Some posters on 'that other thread' believe pavements are also for cycling on. :rolleyes:
If they're blocking the pavement you can (from memory) ring the police non emergency number.
If it's a regular thing bring it up with your local council - they've been known to send in the traffic wardens (or have the wardens include the area in a more frequent check).
Though bear in mind that merely being on the pavement isn't an offence (unless parking restrictions apply or you're in London).
When my children were in prams, and there was just room for me to get through, I did it regadless of the damage I may do to a car! I have literally scraped or forced past many cars and had the wing mirrors of a couple! Ignorance has its price!!
When my children were in prams, and there was just room for me to get through, I did it regadless of the damage I may do to a car! I have literally scraped or forced past many cars and had the wing mirrors of a couple! Ignorance has its price!!
Or the driver could try parking on the road, where cars are supposed to park.
Fine mate - but our road is one with Victorian Houses with no garages. The road is narrow and us residents have nowhere else to park (or visitors either). So what do we do? Park slightly on the pavement? Or park fully in our road therefore not allowing emergency vehicles/refuse collection to pass?
Fine mate - but our road is one with Victorian Houses with no garages. The road is narrow and us residents have nowhere else to park (or visitors either). So what do we do? Park slightly on the pavement? Or park fully in our road therefore not allowing emergency vehicles/refuse collection to pass?
Life is never that simple, my friend.
You have no legal right to park outside your house or anywhere else on the road, if you're causing an obstruction by parking on the pavement you should park elsewhere.
Dave
If i didn't park my car up the kerb the street would be blocked there's no bloody way I'm parking it in another street were I can't see it to please someone I dnt know.
If You want to come watch over it over night then yea ill park It around the corner or u can pay for a driveway
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or higher kerbs
especially if there is ample road space to park
I was warned by the police when I parked outside my house with two wheels on the pavement, 'causing an obstruction' would have been the offence.
If it's a regular thing bring it up with your local council - they've been known to send in the traffic wardens (or have the wardens include the area in a more frequent check).
Try waiting until the road is clear.
.... or park somewhere else where you won't cause an obstruction of course
Or the driver could try parking on the road, where cars are supposed to park.
Though bear in mind that merely being on the pavement isn't an offence (unless parking restrictions apply or you're in London).
Good, I say.
Fine mate - but our road is one with Victorian Houses with no garages. The road is narrow and us residents have nowhere else to park (or visitors either). So what do we do? Park slightly on the pavement? Or park fully in our road therefore not allowing emergency vehicles/refuse collection to pass?
Life is never that simple, my friend.
A car should not take up the whole of the path when parked.
Dave
If You want to come watch over it over night then yea ill park It around the corner or u can pay for a driveway