11mo ago

What are your throughts on pavement parking?

www.gov.uk

Pavement parking: options for change

Link is just to inspire discussion I know it's already closed.

17 comments

You can’t park there mate
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- Yes and from memory the government have been sitting on the results. This was a question to the community mostly.
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.

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