I am wondering why it is allowed to park close to crosswalks. My understanding was that you need to keep some distance.
This is a crossing next to a school. Both the RV and the black car are parked about 1m close.
It seams to me that it is as intended because on both sides the wider portion sidewalk could've been extend few meters to prevent parking but instead the "packable area" start immediately after the cross walk.

by Ice5891

10 comments

  1. You can park closer when the crosswalk doesn’t start from the “same level” as parking. In this case, the sidewalk “comes over” to to cars outer side and helps cars to see people at crosswalk. The distance rule is there to make it so that people already crossing the street won’t just pop out behind the parked cars.

  2. The distance rule only applies when there are no dedicated parking spots. As to why no space was left here, the reason is simply bad planning.

  3. Parking is not on the road but next to the road in a separate lane. If you leave your car next to the road itself, that rule applies.

  4. These are pockets. Both pedestrians and drivers can easily see on the road. Would be different if there were no pockets. Then, the parking cars would block the view.

  6. Your example applies to parked vehicles in the road, blocking or partially blocking a live lane, which would cause an obstruction of the line of sight between pedestrians and oncoming vehicles. Because the vehicles parked in your picture are in designated car parking spaces, outside of the live lane, it’s safe for them to park there as there is line of sight obstruction between pedestrians and live traffic.

    Sure the RV could have been a little more considerate, but it hasn’t technically done anything wrong.

  7. You meant to ask, “Why are general parking rules not valid here?”

  9. It is not allowed to park like that. The rule is simple; do not park within 5m before the crosswalk. If it’s after the crosswalk, it’s allowed. In the picture, they are before, meaning from the traffic direction.

    It is just a bad planning. They will get a ticket if a parking lady chooses to give it.

  10. Also remember it’s not the car length that counts it’s actually 5 meters from the pedestrian crossing, in this case however the parking spots are most likely marked as parking spots and not on street parking, where it again does not apply. Similar cases in Helsinki where you allowed to park in intersections when there’s a specific parking bay marked.

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