Cars on the Pavement
burton07
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In my village there has been a BMW parked on the pavement all weekend. The road is wide enough to park with all 4 wheels on the road yet the driver has parked with two wheels on the grass and two on the path. (the grass is on the other side of the path to the road). In order to get by, you have to squeeze past. If you were pushing a pushchair or pram you would have to push it on the road to get by.
Why do drivers have to do this? There is no reason whatsoever to put any wheels on the path although it wouldn't be too bad if he'd parked two on the pavement.
Should I pop a note under his windscreen wiper telling him he is a dick, or do you think he already knows?
Why do drivers have to do this? There is no reason whatsoever to put any wheels on the path although it wouldn't be too bad if he'd parked two on the pavement.
Should I pop a note under his windscreen wiper telling him he is a dick, or do you think he already knows?
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Technically the police can get him to repark his car as he shouldn't really park on a grass verge/pavement.
Round our way we don't have garages - old properties - and heve no room to put one. The roads are narrow and when we park 2 wheels on the pavement it is for our car's safety, as there are idiots that come round corners so fast if we didn't they would take the back end of our car off if we parked fully on the road.
This has come up in another thread - it isn't always a black and white argument - but if your road is wide enough it dosen't sound as though he has an excuse.
Pop a note under his windscreen politely asking him/her to move.
If they don't move after, say, a couple of days, spray-paint the same
message all over the vehicle. That should do it
If you had an Angel Eye cam you could record all these cars on the pavement, I did it once.
I presume that you were bereft of something useful to do at the time!:)
Especially if you're standing in a bus queue...
Handlebars indeed, it's very annoying when cycling on the pavement to have to squeeze past unsocially or illegally parked cars like this! :cool:
He has a customer car park but won't stick his own van in it.
You presumed wrongly.
I was walking to the shops and filming at the same time, so no extra effort was being made.
park your car normally leaving a small gap, causing a traffic jam. If anyone knocks on your door (wanting you to move your car) ignore it. They are then likely to visit the shop. After a few days problem solved.
What do you mean by “under the windscreen”, do you mean after putting a brick through it.:eek::D
It's not just people using prams, wheelchairs etc that need to be considered. What about people who are visually impaired and have to use a cane?
This has happened to me before. A taxi suddenly mounted the pavement and started driving along it, for reasons unknown (it was a wide pavement). I've also seen someone else driving on the path in the same way, but I was safely on the other side of the road.
"Popping a note" anywhere is unlikely to get anything done though. It just makes you look like a passive-aggressive curtain-twitcher. You need to say something in person, if you can.
Got a bit of a shock when a copper knocked on my door at 9pm asking me to move the car
Still an offence to park on the pavement and you do have a choice of parking elsewhere and walking a few hundred yards.
Aye. Two wrongs don't make a right, people.