You can’t park there mate
this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2024
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Nor there.
Someone's sitting there, mate.
Regardless of what is decided, I am doubtful the sole traffic warden I see once a month will bother.
Minimal traffic wardens, who only seem to work normal working hours results in parking laws only ever applied in normal working hours.
The moment its an evening or weekend, people seem to be able to park wherever they please.
the wardens around here target "problem" place.ere they can catch lots of people quickly, over problem areas where there is a real issue. For example untill recently there was no where to stop outside our local post sorting office, so people just risked it, and the wardens would wait, they have finally put some spaces here and it's no longer an issue
As a chronic car user, I live in a dreaded fear of that one warden - I can't afford their fines
Its really simple to avoid fines! Just one simple trick to avoid all fines, forever!
Don’t park like an asshole. Park legally. Park further, legally, and walk if you have to.
Absolutely impossible to implement where I live up North. Half of the town's cars would have to go. Which I'm all in favour of, but there's a lot to sort out first (e.g. public transport and cycling infrastructure). Or I suppose we could put up a bunch of parking garages everywhere but that would be awful.
around me there are quite a lot of cars that sit on the street and never seem to move, getting those off the road as as a start would help. Also plenty of places I see where there is plenty of space to park fully on the road, but people park on the pavement by habit
I just had an adventure on Google Street View dropping into random neighbourhoods, and it varies a lot by town. Some places like Leeds and Sheffield had wide roads that would have perfectly coped with a ban on pavement parking. Other places it looks impossible. Here's a place I dropped into in Bolton. Those people would really suffer from a ban. I guess this is my main issue with it, you're disproportionately affecting the less well-off. The middle class will be fine with their driveways and spacious estates.
would making it easier for people not to use their cars help? Better public transport, closer services etc? Do a lot of people have multiple cars just in case they sometimes need it.
Hopefully public transport helps, that's the dream. Maybe self driving electric cars make taxis cheap and people stop owning cars, who knows! I wouldn't expect the people on the crowded terraced estates to be the multiple car owning type, maybe two cars per household.
Not even "just in case". Where I live, there is one bus into town at 9:30, and a second at 3:30. Completely unhelpful for anyone who wanted to get to work.
We need significant better public transport for it to even be am option, at the moment its just a token.
The consultation is closed.
Yes and from memory the government have been sitting on the results. This was a question to the community mostly.
Right, wasn't sure if someone had just posted an old link. My €2. I'm in favour of it in some places. If a certain amount of pavement can be left clear, for the sake of the argument 1.5m, then yes. If that can't be achieved (narrow pavements or street furniture that stops that being achieved) then no, you cannot park there.
I see this every day between Ware and Hertford with cars parked and blocking pavements on both sides of the road. Some of those houses have front gardens. Some of those houses also have rear gardens and a garage at the back. They could adapt them for their cars.
In Leighton Buzzard, my ex has a small garage block at the end of her row of 3 houses. There is space to put a car in front of the garages and one in it. She parks on the road in front of her house. The 'drive' is empty and her garage is full of crap.
Some people are just selfish
The government needs to make a policy though, instead of just kicking the can down the partially blocked road.
oh god yes, the people who park on the road when they have multi car drives to save having to shuffle cars every now and then do my nut in.
My neighbors and I have the same driveway shape and size.
I can fit around 6-7 cars in mine if I valet for everyone.
Although, that's more like 4 cars if I just let random guests do their thing.
My neighbor calls it quits after the first car and then uses the street for their other 2.
I also don't really understand why you'd need 3+ cars for 2 people when one of them works from home and the other is retired, but they could at least learn to park them.
Doubly so in the winter when the street ones get buried in snow when the plow comes by. Shrug.
It your using them every day I can get (but don't agree) with the hassle of shuffling them. But if they are still and your just reserving space you don't need them your a *unt
They get out of the house maybe once a week and the ones in the street get used maybe once every other month. I don't get it, but whatever.
People are weird.