Parking On Pavements

[Stephen]

Interesting.

https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/news/motori ... st_Feature


I can appreciate that on some occasions there is no option, but most of the time it's purely thoughtless, lazy parking. I welcome the law, not that it will happen in my life time......a bit like Brexit.

[david63]

I agree (about both!)

[Manoverboard]

What's a pavement ?

[towny44]

If its enforced on many of our local streets, and they allow par!ing on both sides, there will no room for any cars to pass along them

[Stephen]

If its enforced on many of our local streets, and they allow par!ing on both sides, there will no room for any cars to pass along them

There lies the problem John. Drivers with no common sense or just plain selfish. Instead of stagger parking in situations such as yours they will park opposite each other causing congestion. As I said in my original post, sometimes parking on the pavement is the only option, providing it doesn't completely block pedestrian access.

[towny44]

If its enforced on many of our local streets, and they allow par!ing on both sides, there will no room for any cars to pass along them

There lies the problem John. Drivers with no common sense or just plain selfish. Instead of stagger parking in situations such as yours they will park opposite each other causing congestion. As I said in my original post, sometimes parking on the pavement is the only option, providing it doesn't completely block pedestrian access.

On streets with no drives or garages, it would leave lots of multi car families without spaces for all their cars, local authority planners need to insist that new developments allow at least 2 parking spaces for each property, but they seldom do.

[Mervyn and Trish]

We have lots of streets of terraced houses round here where there's barely room for one car per house even when parked both sides. I don't like them on the pavement but those streets are narrow and if they're not there's no room to pass. And if they're only allowed to park one side where are the other residents supposed to park?