The BAD PARKING thread [vol3]
Discussion
Here we have the northern pick up/drop off at Reading Station, on a busy weekday evening as the commuters are arriving back. I'm there every day picking up the trouble and strife. In this particular example, the Mazda CX5 was parked up for a good 10 minutes in the access road as shown (note double yellows), whilst the lady driver yakked on a mobile, making all the traffic passing through squeeze through carefully, and the Alfa Giulietta was in the disabled spot for just as long. Bizarrely, when the Alfa's passenger turned up and they left, the Mazda driver decided that was the right time to get in the disabled spot. Neither had blue badges. You can clearly see normal free spaces to my right, there were further free spaces they'd both passed to my left in order to get to the disabled spots.
SilverSixer said:
Here we have the northern pick up/drop off at Reading Station, on a busy weekday evening as the commuters are arriving back. I'm there every day picking up the trouble and strife. In this particular example, the Mazda CX5 was parked up for a good 10 minutes in the access road as shown (note double yellows), whilst the lady driver yakked on a mobile, making all the traffic passing through squeeze through carefully, and the Alfa Giulietta was in the disabled spot for just as long. Bizarrely, when the Alfa's passenger turned up and they left, the Mazda driver decided that was the right time to get in the disabled spot. Neither had blue badges. You can clearly see normal free spaces to my right, there were further free spaces they'd both passed to my left in order to get to the disabled spots.
Pull up behind, hand horn permanently and wait for a response.
jhfozzy said:
cookmysock said:
Liquid Knight said:
Not exactly parked but "KEEP CLEAR" and the use of a handbrake is beyond some people.
highway code section 114 said:
114
You MUST NOT
use any lights in a way which would dazzle or cause discomfort to other road users, including pedestrians, cyclists and horse riders
use front or rear fog lights unless visibility is seriously reduced. You MUST switch them off when visibility improves to avoid dazzling other road users (see Rule 226).
In stationary queues of traffic, drivers should apply the parking brake and, once the following traffic has stopped, take their foot off the footbrake to deactivate the vehicle brake lights. This will minimise glare to road users behind until the traffic moves again.
You MUST NOT
use any lights in a way which would dazzle or cause discomfort to other road users, including pedestrians, cyclists and horse riders
use front or rear fog lights unless visibility is seriously reduced. You MUST switch them off when visibility improves to avoid dazzling other road users (see Rule 226).
In stationary queues of traffic, drivers should apply the parking brake and, once the following traffic has stopped, take their foot off the footbrake to deactivate the vehicle brake lights. This will minimise glare to road users behind until the traffic moves again.
I guess the for 4 years I lived in the UK that I was breaking the law / highway code. Though it was Wales - does that count?
Maidencombe beach last weekend. Free parking spaces within 20 yards on the roadside next to where I took the photo, P&D car park 100 yards down the road. Double yellow, blocking a junction, not remotely tucked into the roadside even, but the hazards are going so it's ok to leave the car for 15 minutes to go buy ice creams and then take them down to eat on the beach... 
irocfan said:
driverrob said:
"F**k the pedestrians"
k other drivers too - that is asinine parking 
It is, however, the main pedestrian entrance/exit from that area to the shops/bus stop/schools/library .....
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