Parking on the pavement q

[cassa333]

Hi,

A lot of things are bandied about regards parking on the pavement but is there any enforcable rules about it? or where it is written that it is only enforcable if it is causing an obstruction?

I have had a look at the Road Safety Act 1988 and can only find something about cycle ways (section 21).

Thank you

[Jonestheroad]

It is illegal but usually will not be enforced unless causing an obstruction. In some instances people are required to park with two wheels on the footway on narrow roads.

[B00]

If they're parked on the pavement and im walking past with shopping, i bash 'em- its quite satisfying!

[Mamyalynne]

Don't park near my eldest daughter, she will get her pushchair through any gap - the scraping noise is horrendous.

[ojread2]

This is one thing that sooo annoys me
I have, on one occasion, wheeled a buggy past a car parked completely over the pavement so close that I pulled the number plate off - I left it on the road
I will bash your car with my bags of shopping if you are parked on the path and I walk past, and yes I will even do that if you are sitting in in cos you just dare sat anything
I've reported cars for this via fixmystreet.com. They report to the local council and in turn they pass details to PCSo's who will come up and speak to the owners

[dannyk13]

DRIVING on the pavement is an offence which carries a maximum fine of £1.000.PARKING on the pavement is isually dealt with as an obstruction as pedestrians cannot use that part of the pavement.Some authorities have this offence covered by by laws.

[vulcan]

If driving on a pavement is an offence then parking has to come under the same law, unless the car was lifted onto the pavement of course.

[SlackAlice]

It's very much down to your Local Council. Around here you can park on the pavements, provided that the pavement has been marked in white bays. Park other than in the white bays will get you a ticket.

[carrust]

Don't park on the strips of red tarmac, or you could get badly beaten up or even murdered....They're cycle-paths you know :-)

[cassa333]

Thank you everyone :)

We have a new shared pedestrian cycle track and section 21 of the RTA 1988 makes it an offence to drive or stop on it but the pcso didn't either know it or want to enforce it. The pcso just said as they weren't causing an obstruction and the kids could get round them there was nothing she could do!!!

They have long parked on the pavements making it difficult to get in or out and still park on the new bit. One driver even told me that shehas arkedthere fo two years and there was nothing I could do about it!! She will get a shock when the lines go down in a couple of months :)

[chrissa1]

Just think how you would feel if your car being parked on the pavement, caused death or injury to a pedestrian who has been forced on to the road.

[paddywak]

On the estate were my sister lives if people didn't park with two wheels on the pavement traffic would not get through. It's that bad that the local bus companies have refused to run through it because the buses where always getting blocked in. The thing that really annoys me about it is that all the houses have drives big enough for two cars but the inconsiderate bastards are wont use them.

[Mobius1]

You make a good point paddywak - although it's annoying, particularly if the car owners have a drive they're not making use of, it's not always that simple. The street I live on has very few driveways and cars park either side. If these vehicles didn't park with their wheels on the pavement nothing would ever get past.

It's a bit difficult to point a finger at someone in this case. Is it the person's fault for living in this street? Or perhaps its their fault for owning a car? Perhaps it's the councils fault for not having foresight donkeys years ago and building the road wider? How do you solve the problem? You can't. The road's not going to get any wider, public transport isn't going to get any cheaper or of any higher quality and given that car crime is still rampant, why should a car owner be forced to park their vehicle half a mile away just to be 'considerate'?

People pay their road tax and should be able to keep the vehicle on the road or perched on the pavement (assuming that this is the more considerate position for the vehicle in the context of being least obstructive to the majority of people who would be potentially inconvenienced). If the councils and whoever else don't like it, I reckon they can shove it or just stop charging money to just to make people liable to more litigation and subject to more rules and laws.

[Twenty20]

"...if people didn't park with two wheels on the pavement traffic would not get through"

What a thoughtless thing to say. If the road isn't wide enough to park on without parking on the pavement then find some other place to park where it is wide enough.

There's no excuse for parking on the pavement. Yes, you might have to walk a bit further to your front door but will that really hurt you?

[SlackAlice]

Twenty20
easy to say but not easy to do. My friend lives in Dagenham on the Becontree Heath Estate. It was at one time the biggest Council Housing Estate in Europe. None of the residential roads are wide enough to cater for all the vehicles being parked. In your scenario they would have to park in the next borough and catch a bus back.

[cassa333]

We don't have a problem with residents parking as we all have big drivways. It is the parents who can't let their presious little charges walk more than 20 feet from the school gates.

It amazes me how it is so difficult for 12 to 16yr olds can't walk!!