The BAD PARKING thread [vol4]

[Uncool]

skip_1 said:

Timbergiant said:

Great parking, so busy that day too.

What is that area for? Doesn't look like there are any loading bays needing a turning circle/extra room. Great place for some extra spaces.

That looks like a housing development just over the fence at the back. Maybe part of the conditions of development of this retail space was that they weren't allowed to have parking up near the fence for concern of noise/pollution for the residents?

[DoubleD]

Vipers said:

HTP99 said:

DoubleD said:

Surely its obvious that the blue badge holder has to be in the car

Yep.

How can they be in the car, if the driver has dropped her off at the shop?

But the post did say he was shopping "for" his wife, I am just pointing out the holder doesnt have to be in the car if they have been dropped off. So that is wrong if he is shopping for his wife, just pointing out the obvious.

Edited by Vipers on Sunday 16th December 18:13

Obviously a blue badge holder is allowed to get out of the car, I thought that was so obvious that it wasnt worth mentioning.

[Mammasaid]

nonsequitur said:

MartG said:

No Crap Parking. (please).

We care where you park........



......just not where we do!

[zedx19]

Uncool said:

skip_1 said:

Timbergiant said:

Great parking, so busy that day too.

What is that area for? Doesn't look like there are any loading bays needing a turning circle/extra room. Great place for some extra spaces.

That looks like a housing development just over the fence at the back. Maybe part of the conditions of development of this retail space was that they weren't allowed to have parking up near the fence for concern of noise/pollution for the residents?

If that was the case, why go to the effort of putting tarmac down? Why not just landscape straight across instead of notching the car park back?

[MartG]

Perhaps the neighbour's complaint came after it had already been laid ?

[ashleyman]

[funkyrobot]

dheads on the school run:

[Vipers]

DoubleD said:

Vipers said:

HTP99 said:

DoubleD said:

Surely its obvious that the blue badge holder has to be in the car

Yep.

How can they be in the car, if the driver has dropped her off at the shop?

But the post did say he was shopping "for" his wife, I am just pointing out the holder doesnt have to be in the car if they have been dropped off. So that is wrong if he is shopping for his wife, just pointing out the obvious.

Edited by Vipers on Sunday 16th December 18:13

Obviously a blue badge holder is allowed to get out of the car, I thought that was so obvious that it wasnt worth mentioning.

Stange that it is obvious to us, blue badge holders seem to not know the obvious to the rules of the badge entitlement and use, yes of course I knew you knew what we were saying.............. onward and upwards. Next picture please.

[Writhing]

Tesco main entrance. Lots of empty spaces a mere 8ft away.

[ecsrobin]

Nothing too extreme but is it really that hard to park in between the lines?

[nonsequitur]

ecsrobin said:

Nothing too extreme but is it really that hard to park in between the lines?

HILTI = Hello, I Like To Irritate

[MartG]

[Bobberoo99]

funkyrobot said:

dheads on the school run:

Founding members of the "It's ok, i'll only be a minute" brigade!!

[nonsequitur]

MartG said:

Unless the drivers name is Lance....

[zedx19]

Bobberoo99 said:

funkyrobot said:

dheads on the school run:

Founding members of the "It's ok, i'll only be a minute" brigade!!

2 parents that do this every morning at our junior school. 1 parent is a single mum with 3 feral kids, the head teacher has confronted her many times but she just ignores him, unsure what else can be done. The second parent is actually a nice normal family and once it's pointed out, she doesn't park on the zig zags for a week or so, then goes back to doing it?! She does however, often sit in the car on the zig zags, waiting for her child to come out, because it's ok if you're sat in the car?!?! The mind boggles.

[jamei303]

nonsequitur said:

Unless the drivers name is Lance....

It might be an ambulance, you never know.

My driving instructor's BSM Corsa had blue lights because he was a retained firefighter.

[Harpoon]

zedx19 said:

2 parents that do this every morning at our junior school. 1 parent is a single mum with 3 feral kids, the head teacher has confronted her many times but she just ignores him, unsure what else can be done. The second parent is actually a nice normal family and once it's pointed out, she doesn't park on the zig zags for a week or so, then goes back to doing it?! She does however, often sit in the car on the zig zags, waiting for her child to come out, because it's ok if you're sat in the car?!?! The mind boggles.

Get the head to raise it with the local PC/PCSO - our community officers post occasionally on Twitter showing them checking on school parking and the like

[funkyrobot]

Harpoon said:

Get the head to raise it with the local PC/PCSO - our community officers post occasionally on Twitter showing them checking on school parking and the like

We had the PCSO doing the rounds at our daughter's school a month or so ago (school pic I posted above is from another local one).

He gave a warning ticket to someone parked over a 'keep clear' road marking. Their response - I thought our tyre wasn't on the wording.

Noticed some shenanigans this morning (do most days but today was bad). Woman in a Merc GLA that she couldn't drive was blocking the school entrance as she tried to turn around. Because the school is at the end of cul de sac that currently has roadworks, people were just piling in and making it worse.

It ended up with people getting out of their cars and mouthing off at each other. Right in front of kids. The Merc woman shouted 'im trying to park my car that is too big for me to drive'.

[Vipers]

Make the little fat fkers walk to school.

Or drop them off in the next road. These parkers would soon moan if a kid walked out between parked cars on the zig zag and got hit by a car, who would probably not being paying attention, so intent on finding a space next to the gates.

Can't they start issuing £60 fines?

[WarrenB]

Vipers said:

Or drop them off in the next road. These parkers would soon moan if a kid walked out between parked cars on the zig zag and got hit by a car, who would probably not being paying attention, so intent on finding a space next to the gates.

I've never understood why more parents don't do this. When I was at school I didn't live on a bus route, so most days I got picked up. Absolute chaos outside the school, so my parents used to park about a half mile or so away. Best of both worlds. I got exercise and they didn't get in the way of anybody. And more often than not I'd get to their car quicker than people could fight through the traffic outside the school.