It should be, it’s a disgrace the way it’s socially acceptable to give a big middle finger to any wheelchair user, guide dog user, pram pusher or anyone who just wants to walk along the pavement.
But this government has declared war on the pedestrian so don’t get your hopes up
Edit: The government literally replaced the Statutory Guidance on Active Travel with a document called ‘Plan for Drivers’. Just to be clear this isn’t hyperbole.
I’m genuinely baffled how this was ever accepted. I’m in East London and someone would genuinely topple your car over if you tried that.
While I agree, particularly after having to push a wheelchair around this would cause absolute chaos in a lot of residential areas particularly those new build estates with minimal parking.
Would be nice but having cars on pavements but where are the cars going to go?
Some streets, it is impossible to get two rows of cars parked on the road way..
The general attitude around pavement parking absolutely stinks.
If you can’t park without either blocking the pavement or blocking the road, find somewhere else to park.
I’m pretty sure the vast majority of people bought either their car or their house knowing how wide the street outside is. Don’t now try and claim some kind of hardship because your presumption of being able to park on the pavement might now be taken away.
A road I lived on used to get an annual letter in the post actually asking people to park on the pavement, because otherwise an ambulance couldn’t get down it. Some older streets just aren’t wide enough to accommodate the modern car ownership issue
Fully get the issues pavement parking can cause, but I genuinely don’t understand how there are realistic ways around it in some areas and why it gets quite so much animosity towards it. Up north where there are just large areas of terraced housing with narrow roads and no driveways, it’s impossible to do anything but park half on the pavement really.
Whenever I take my son out in his pram, I sometimes have to walk him in the road because a car is parked almost completely on the pavement.
If there’s a tight enough gap to fit through, I go for it, ensuring the pram scratches and scuffs the car as much as possible in the process. Cunts.
If I dumped a bed and a washing machine right across the pavement outside my house blocking it, people would be outraged.
If I parked my car there doing the same thing, nobody bats an eye. Its completely wrong. Both are private property and both are unacceptable. What difference does it make if its a car or not? Its still my property and I’ve still dumped it in the street. We only justify these actions because “I understand where they’re coming from. Could be me that.” So we excuse shitty behaviour to justify our own when we do it.
My convenience is more important than your inconvenience.
We fucking suck as a society.
Then councils need to provide adequate, affordable parking solutions
Maybe make it compulsory to leave a 4ft clearance for pedestrians and if you don’t, treat it as if parking on double yellows. Give traffic wardens tape measures and a box of tissues so they can police it and enjoy themselves.
I’ve no problem with cars on pavements so long as it’s possible to pass them without having to go on the road. I do get pissed if there’s not room for a wheelchair or buggy, that’s just shitty of people.
London and smaller towns are going to be royally fucked if it becomes law as some streets aren’t designed for parked cars and access. Even new build estates can only cater for maybe a couple of cars parked of pavements but with larger cars parked on the road then buses, vans or emergency vechiles trying to move around then it’ll be impossible
Some houses. Even new builds don’t have parking that’s adequate. And this is no joke. My gf used to live in a flat and she would struggle to park every day and left because of it. In certain parts you just can’t park. So have to resort to this to double park either side or whatever
And how exactly do they expect people to go for this? alot of houses are terraced 🤣
This isn’t feasible, tons of roads in my area aren’t wide enough for cars to be parked not on the curb and bins to be collected, deliveries to be made etc. it’s the nature of the country we live in.
Maybe we could have some middle ground Cars can pavement park Pedestrians can key said pavement parked cars.
Only so they can go around fining people so they can keep paying their buddies in non jobs
This just isn’t feasible at all. I have to park on the pavement otherwise emergency vehicles can get around my area.
Cyclists too. Think its always been banned for cyclists to use pavements? But since covid and more people bought bikes, no one seems to care. Amount of times ive nearly gone flying as someone has flown past me.
I refuse to move for them now as i have right of way
I’m surprised nobody suggested removing the pavements to give enough room for the cars
Pointless demand. No one’s going to enforce it.
Anyone who lives on a street with a primary school knows already that *existing* rules with street parking are not enforced – adding more changes nothing.
Schools should be the first. All paths blocked by cars dropping kids.
The area where I live in E London has fairly wide pavements, the local council has laid two colour tarmac to indicate how far on the pavement you can park roughly 60/40 in favour of pedestrians. It works well and people with mobility buggies etc can fly along at breakneck speeds forcing pedestrians out of the way.
As annoying as it is on some roads where pavement parking is safe this is the right thing to do. If you’ve ever been to a town like Luton you quickly realise that if you have a buggy or are in a wheelchair you’d be fucked. There are roads where it’s hard for abled bodied people to navigate the cars let alone disabled people.
lol guys google “west acton” in Ealing, London. They literally draw the parking bays onto the pavement
I was looking at two estate cars. A Skoda Superb and a Toyota Corolla. I took the Superb home and realised I couldn’t park it outside my house without being on the pavement. It was that bit too wide and would have made it difficult for other drivers, and our street isn’t the narrowest locally
Realised looking down the street that everyone has narrower cars too 🙂 We bought a cheaper terraced house, so the boat on wheels is not for us.
I think if it is banned, decisions will have to be made and frankly people in terraced houses won’t be able to buy a fucking massive SUV. The solution is to buy a house with a drive.
In my little street with about 80 appartments, there are 8 guest spaces.
If you don’t park on the pavement, you or your partner are parking several streets away.
Make parking a little easier for us poor folk and then make this law.
Are all car owners expected to park on the road? But,We NEED to park just where we want,even if the road is too small. And anyway,people walk on the road when the pavements blocked,so cars should be allowed on the pavement,rather than blocking the road.
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It should be, it’s a disgrace the way it’s socially acceptable to give a big middle finger to any wheelchair user, guide dog user, pram pusher or anyone who just wants to walk along the pavement.
But this government has declared war on the pedestrian so don’t get your hopes up
Edit: The government literally replaced the Statutory Guidance on Active Travel with a document called ‘Plan for Drivers’. Just to be clear this isn’t hyperbole.
I’m genuinely baffled how this was ever accepted. I’m in East London and someone would genuinely topple your car over if you tried that.
While I agree, particularly after having to push a wheelchair around this would cause absolute chaos in a lot of residential areas particularly those new build estates with minimal parking.
Would be nice but having cars on pavements but where are the cars going to go?
Some streets, it is impossible to get two rows of cars parked on the road way..
The general attitude around pavement parking absolutely stinks.
If you can’t park without either blocking the pavement or blocking the road, find somewhere else to park.
I’m pretty sure the vast majority of people bought either their car or their house knowing how wide the street outside is. Don’t now try and claim some kind of hardship because your presumption of being able to park on the pavement might now be taken away.
A road I lived on used to get an annual letter in the post actually asking people to park on the pavement, because otherwise an ambulance couldn’t get down it. Some older streets just aren’t wide enough to accommodate the modern car ownership issue
Fully get the issues pavement parking can cause, but I genuinely don’t understand how there are realistic ways around it in some areas and why it gets quite so much animosity towards it. Up north where there are just large areas of terraced housing with narrow roads and no driveways, it’s impossible to do anything but park half on the pavement really.
Whenever I take my son out in his pram, I sometimes have to walk him in the road because a car is parked almost completely on the pavement.
If there’s a tight enough gap to fit through, I go for it, ensuring the pram scratches and scuffs the car as much as possible in the process. Cunts.
If I dumped a bed and a washing machine right across the pavement outside my house blocking it, people would be outraged.
If I parked my car there doing the same thing, nobody bats an eye. Its completely wrong. Both are private property and both are unacceptable. What difference does it make if its a car or not? Its still my property and I’ve still dumped it in the street. We only justify these actions because “I understand where they’re coming from. Could be me that.” So we excuse shitty behaviour to justify our own when we do it.
My convenience is more important than your inconvenience.
We fucking suck as a society.
Then councils need to provide adequate, affordable parking solutions
Maybe make it compulsory to leave a 4ft clearance for pedestrians and if you don’t, treat it as if parking on double yellows. Give traffic wardens tape measures and a box of tissues so they can police it and enjoy themselves.
I’ve no problem with cars on pavements so long as it’s possible to pass them without having to go on the road. I do get pissed if there’s not room for a wheelchair or buggy, that’s just shitty of people.
London and smaller towns are going to be royally fucked if it becomes law as some streets aren’t designed for parked cars and access. Even new build estates can only cater for maybe a couple of cars parked of pavements but with larger cars parked on the road then buses, vans or emergency vechiles trying to move around then it’ll be impossible
Some houses. Even new builds don’t have parking that’s adequate. And this is no joke. My gf used to live in a flat and she would struggle to park every day and left because of it. In certain parts you just can’t park. So have to resort to this to double park either side or whatever
And how exactly do they expect people to go for this? alot of houses are terraced 🤣
This isn’t feasible, tons of roads in my area aren’t wide enough for cars to be parked not on the curb and bins to be collected, deliveries to be made etc. it’s the nature of the country we live in.
Maybe we could have some middle ground Cars can pavement park Pedestrians can key said pavement parked cars.
Only so they can go around fining people so they can keep paying their buddies in non jobs
This just isn’t feasible at all. I have to park on the pavement otherwise emergency vehicles can get around my area.
Cyclists too. Think its always been banned for cyclists to use pavements? But since covid and more people bought bikes, no one seems to care. Amount of times ive nearly gone flying as someone has flown past me.
I refuse to move for them now as i have right of way
I’m surprised nobody suggested removing the pavements to give enough room for the cars
Pointless demand. No one’s going to enforce it.
Anyone who lives on a street with a primary school knows already that *existing* rules with street parking are not enforced – adding more changes nothing.
Schools should be the first. All paths blocked by cars dropping kids.
The area where I live in E London has fairly wide pavements, the local council has laid two colour tarmac to indicate how far on the pavement you can park roughly 60/40 in favour of pedestrians. It works well and people with mobility buggies etc can fly along at breakneck speeds forcing pedestrians out of the way.
As annoying as it is on some roads where pavement parking is safe this is the right thing to do. If you’ve ever been to a town like Luton you quickly realise that if you have a buggy or are in a wheelchair you’d be fucked. There are roads where it’s hard for abled bodied people to navigate the cars let alone disabled people.
lol guys google “west acton” in Ealing, London. They literally draw the parking bays onto the pavement
I was looking at two estate cars. A Skoda Superb and a Toyota Corolla. I took the Superb home and realised I couldn’t park it outside my house without being on the pavement. It was that bit too wide and would have made it difficult for other drivers, and our street isn’t the narrowest locally
Realised looking down the street that everyone has narrower cars too 🙂 We bought a cheaper terraced house, so the boat on wheels is not for us.
I think if it is banned, decisions will have to be made and frankly people in terraced houses won’t be able to buy a fucking massive SUV. The solution is to buy a house with a drive.
In my little street with about 80 appartments, there are 8 guest spaces.
If you don’t park on the pavement, you or your partner are parking several streets away.
Make parking a little easier for us poor folk and then make this law.
Are all car owners expected to park on the road? But,We NEED to park just where we want,even if the road is too small. And anyway,people walk on the road when the pavements blocked,so cars should be allowed on the pavement,rather than blocking the road.
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