The BAD PARKING Thread [Vol 2]

[Vipers]

White van man, not sure what he was delivering, back doors closed, could be a contractor working in the house, but decisions decisions, shall I park around the corner off the main road,



Or just abandon it on the path completely blocking it, and deary me along side that bus stop sign as well.



No contest, blocking the bus stop wins hands down.

[thetapeworm]

Perhaps it's a new bus shelter? Keep watching and see if people keep climbing in and out of it to escape the rain until their bus comes.

[Pulliptears]

O/T but what shockingly bad planning for a bus stop next to a traffic island!

(concur white van man is a knob btw)

[LordGrover]

Planning? I think that went out about mid-nineties.

[yellowjack]

Pulliptears said:

O/T but what shockingly bad planning for a bus stop next to a traffic island!

(concur white van man is a knob btw)

It's not bad planning at all. It's a deliberate ploy, used as 'Traffic Calming' without having to 'fess up and tell the public that it's what their intention is.

It's also used to discourage following drivers from overtaking the bus while it is stopped. Especially prevalent where the bus stop is 'on the road' and not 'in a lay-by'. Because of the "Keep Left" board on the island, it becomes technically illegal to pass the bus at that point.

[Vipers]

Pulliptears said:

O/T but what shockingly bad planning for a bus stop next to a traffic island!

(concur white van man is a knob btw)

We have a few of those around here, bus stop near an island, most motorist fed up waiting, drive past the other side, how on earth are you supposed to know how long the bus will be there for?

BT what's OT mean? Off topic maybe, and how do you do it.

Edited by Vipers on Friday 9th May 15:38

[Vipers]

Daily Mails cartoon re women soldiers.



Only joking ladies.

[BE57 TOY]

Winning

[Cliftonite]

BE57 TOY said:

Winning

Oh, to see a couple of sheds parked correctly, directly in front and behind that!

[gubbabump]

BE57 TOY said:

Winning

how so? he's/she's clearly a twunt and blind

[grayme]

gubbabump said:

BE57 TOY said:

Winning

how so? he's/she's clearly a twunt and blind

Don't worry gubbabump, he's royalty so can park as he likes.

[gforceg]

BE57 TOY said:

Winning

Do the grown-ups around you not pay you enough attention?

[delboy735]

Pulliptears said:

O/T but what shockingly bad planning for a bus stop next to a traffic island!

(concur white van man is a knob btw)

We have a much better one in Scarborough.......I feel a new thread coming on!

The Ridiculous bus stop positioning thread,


I'll get a piccie and post it later.

[gazchap]

[wades]

I'm sure through the bifocals it looked straight.

Taken this afternoon at Insanesburys, Haywards Heath in case any one's wondering!

[BE57 TOY]

gforceg said:

Do the grown-ups around you not pay you enough attention?

Yes thanks, why so touchy? No need to be personal either!

Maybe this will help calm your nerves

[Gary C]

gazchap said:

Oh I loved people parking like that at work when I had my shed of a polo, I would park it millimetres from the drivers door so they had to climb in through the passenger door

Don't mind it of they park at the remote end of the car park but to take up two places at the front is a tts game.

[BE57 TOY]

Gary C said:

Don't mind it of they park at the remote end of the car park but to take up two places at the front is a tts game.

You speak sense.

[Steff1965]

Gary C said:

gazchap said:

Oh I loved people parking like that at work when I had my shed of a polo, I would park it millimetres from the drivers door so they had to climb in through the passenger door

Don't mind it of they park at the remote end of the car park but to take up two places at the front is a tts game.

If you did that and he went away first you would be parked accross two bays exactly like him.

How do you know he didn't do that to someone?

[Cliftonite]

GV60 EXF

Completely on the pavement. There is a pedestrian gateway conveniently placed for the "driver" to escape into its house.