Parking on the pavement - it's plain selfish!
People who are guilty of parking on the pavements! This drives me totally insane. Why do these idiots think that the safety of their precious cars is more important than peoples right to walk safely? Park on the pavement at your own risk I say!
My mom was seriously ill and for a while had to use a wheelchair. Ive lost count of the number of times that we had to wheel her into the road just to bypass cars blocking our way. Had she had to push herself she would have stood no chance.
And then there are people with buggies and prams. WHY should any parent be forced to cross a road just to avoid some dimwits car? There have been times when people I know have scratched cars as they have tried to get past. But still these morons insist on blocking the way.
I've taken to carrying Vaseline in my pocket, and generously smearing the pavement-side wing mirrors; I'll smile at the thought them of the drivers trying to get it off when I wake up in ITU after being hit by a car trying to get past these vehicles!
It is a pity the traffic wardens are not sent away from the main shopping centres sometimes to help stop this happening. Im sure that after a few parking tickets the constant offenders would soon stop!
Phew, feel much better now.
By: SarahJaneBlogsworth & Lisa
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What do you propose the solution is here then?
Buy a thinner car.
Buy a thinner car.
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Where I live we have grass verges instead of pavements. Everyone parks on the road without any problems - unless you have a 4x4 and then you have to park on the grass verge and churn it all up.
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The streets where I live cannot accommodate cars parked on the road nor do the houses have driveways. Because of this everyone on both sides has to put two wheels on the path (without completely blocking it - I always make sure). What do you propose the solution is here then?
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Idiots who block the pavement with their cars are simply selfish. Why should anyone have to shuffle past some wa*ker's car? Or worse still, step in to the road? If you see a car blocking your path, SMASH the wing mirror!
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Anyone who parks on a pavement should be clamped and towed and then made to pay £500 to get their car back. Selfish b'tards, who do they think they are?
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Throw the book at 'em - 20-Dec-11 20:19
Personally MikeP, I won't be doing anything about it as I feel it is a complete waste of time. I'd rather just enjoy life, occaisionally walk around cars parked on the pavement and not worry about such petty things! Each to there own I guess, but I wish you all the best with your quest against pavement parkers. Hopefully the 'actions' you take will not end up with you getting yourself into more trouble than its worth or endanger the lives of others more so the the parking issue itself.
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MikeP - My point is that there seems to be a worrying ammount of people on here that are willing to take drastic (and in my opinion illegal) measures to stop people parking on the pavement. Yes I understand that parking on the pavement is technically illegal although nothing seems to ever be done about it, but again my point is two wrongs do not make a right. Maybe a polite notice won't work but resorting to criminal damage etc is a step too far - as is suggesting to other people to smear vaseline on car mirrors. I see why people get so frustrated about this issue but ultimately the only people who can do anything about it are the police. They don't care, neither do the traffic wardens so I/we have to come to the conclusion that its one of those gripes in life that you just have to deal with...or write a polite letter to the offending driver or police to make yourself feel a little better! Annoying but lets face it, true!
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Yes it's funny that. If you said to someone get off the pavement and cycle on the road so you can be squashed to a pulp by a truck you would think the cyclist would say "great idea, I'll do that straight away" wouldn't you? I don't think pedestrians would like to have to walk in middle of the road so I don't see why cyclists should be forced to.
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I have seen many cars parked on pavements. I have never seen a car parked on a pavement that means pedestrians would need to walk on the road to get past. Having said that, I assume it must happen otherwise there would not be so many people griping about it on here. Surely if it bothers people so much that they wish to do something about it, it would be better to leave a polite notice on the offending cars than commit a crime (i.e. keying, vandalising, etc) in trying to stop them doing so. I have always been a great believer in two wrongs not making a right. Lets not even get into the safety issues of smearing vaseline on wing mirrors which in my opinion is more dangerous than the entire reasoning behind this gripe!
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"you'd honestly rarther me obstruct the road and hinder the ability for a fire engine to get through????"
Pedestrians don't walk in to cars, they have to walk into the road which can be dangerous. Park somewhere else. It isn't that difficult to work out the answer but maybe it is for someone who uses 4 question marks.
Pedestrians don't walk in to cars, they have to walk into the road which can be dangerous. Park somewhere else. It isn't that difficult to work out the answer but maybe it is for someone who uses 4 question marks.
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right, so pedestrians are so clumsy they see a parked car and immedaitley decide to walk straight at it do they???
if people are such moron's that they walk straight into a parked car then clearly they have no common sense or eye coordiantion. you'd honestly rarther me obstruct the road and hinder the ability for a fire engine to get through????, 'its ok the house is burning down but its ok i can walk down this path very nicely' daft really
if people are such moron's that they walk straight into a parked car then clearly they have no common sense or eye coordiantion. you'd honestly rarther me obstruct the road and hinder the ability for a fire engine to get through????, 'its ok the house is burning down but its ok i can walk down this path very nicely' daft really
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I went out in my Mobility Scooter on Sunday. In just one busy Road each side of the road, i took the numbers of 24 cars parked on the path, on a bit of one of the pavement where i could not get through. I had to go in the busyest part of the road. It is much worse at weekends, is there enywhere I can get something done about this? Thank You.
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Bicycles too will have have trouble going along the pavement with these cars in the way. The drivers of these cars should be jailed.
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I live near a hospital, and every day we have staff and visitors parking on the pavement in our road. Some park with 3/4 of the car on the pavement. Lorries and vans cannot get through. We have complained to the local council and police, but nothing is done, even though the councillors say the situation is under observation. It is very tempting to vandalise the cars to stop them doing it, but instead I have cobbled together the highway code sections concerning parking on pavements and across drives on an A4 sheet, and leave it under their windscreen. This seems to work in most cases, but there are a few persistent offenders.
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Gordon Eyles - 14-Jul-11 14:58
If it's not OK to drive on a footpath / footway, why is it OK to park there?
Parking on a footpath / footway, should be taken a proof of the offence and prosecuted as such. The ONLY defence should be incontrovertible proof that it got there by teleportation / crane etc.
Driving on the pavement causes vastly more deaths than cycling on the pavement.
Parking on a footpath / footway, should be taken a proof of the offence and prosecuted as such. The ONLY defence should be incontrovertible proof that it got there by teleportation / crane etc.
Driving on the pavement causes vastly more deaths than cycling on the pavement.
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Paveparking watcher - 3-Jun-11 07:50
Maybe if they came back to their car to find - "don't park on the path" in indelible ink on their car, it might stop them.
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You should not have to get upset Pete w. I have been griping about the police for years. These important safety issues are constantly ignored, which is affecting your quality of life. Yet again we have another example of Joe Public having to do the lazy, bone idle, coppers Job.
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Cynical Boblet - 13-Apr-11 18:46
Parking still on pavement including several for sale,police are not interested at all,has anyone any fresh ideas to shake this matter up.
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pete woodley - 13-Apr-11 16:34
I have it on good information from someone who I know, who has been to Bournemouth recently, that this council has some of the nastiest Civil Enforcement Officers going. Apparently they have gained rather a nasty reputation for zealotry as I understand it.
Apparently the shop keepers hate it, they say it causes their customers real problems. Neil Herron discovered a lot of illegal parking bays in Bournemouth so I heard, he told the world about it on his website. The Police have handed parking issues over to the local councils, it is now de criminalised, it was known as DPE, it is now called Civil Parking Enforcement or CPE.
The Police only deal with obstruction now, not general parking issues.
Apparently the shop keepers hate it, they say it causes their customers real problems. Neil Herron discovered a lot of illegal parking bays in Bournemouth so I heard, he told the world about it on his website. The Police have handed parking issues over to the local councils, it is now de criminalised, it was known as DPE, it is now called Civil Parking Enforcement or CPE.
The Police only deal with obstruction now, not general parking issues.
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parking law expert. - 13-Feb-11 02:04
The parking on the pavement is still not been solved neither the police or council are bothered in Bournemouth.
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