The BAD PARKING thread [vol4]

[vikingaero]

MartG said:

I love the principle of it, but you can bet that most bad parkers are skanky people and the barrels of the wheels will be caked in brake dust and the weights won't stick for long.

[LR90]

Outstanding

[Pit Pony]

LR90 said:

Outstanding

Making space for a cycle lane. Probably needs to be an extra 40 cm away from the curb to allow most bikes through.

[Vipers]

LR90 said:

Outstanding

Scared of curbing their wheels no doubt

[Square Leg]

The Merc always parks there outside their house, the Toyota visiting someone else.

[LunarOne]

Sticks. said:

Blib said:

Great photo. I wonder what she's thinking.

Oh gosh I've left my lights on!

[5s Alive]

Square Leg said:

The Merc always parks there outside their house, the Toyota visiting someone else.

No one leaves their car like that without realising that they've blocked the road - so quite deliberate?

Even if there is some dispute with the Mercedes owner it still affects everyone else.

The actions of a complete knob.

[Flumpo]

Square Leg said:

The Merc always parks there outside their house, the Toyota visiting someone else.

If the merc always parks like that, isn’t that an offence - no idea on the details, but I always thought you were not supposed to park facing the flow of traffic overnight.

If the Toyota was there first, merc driver is in the wrong even if he thinks he owns that part of the public highway.

[Vipers]

Flumpo said:

Square Leg said:

The Merc always parks there outside their house, the Toyota visiting someone else.

If the merc always parks like that, isn’t that an offence - no idea on the details, but I always thought you were not supposed to park facing the flow of traffic overnight.

If the Toyota was there first, merc driver is in the wrong even if he thinks he owns that part of the public highway.

Yes about parking facing traffic, but I bet no one has ever been done for that.

[Hackney]

donkmeister said:

Hackney said:

Doctor’s surgery just now.
Very big those new Minis.

Is it "inherited" bad parking due to a car that has since left? That Focus is at a very jaunty angle hence my wondering. Google maps view of the car park please, so we can decide the magnitude of our tutting.

I’d parked my Focus parallel to the bins and in the space.
It’s just about possible to see the marking for the spaces if you zoom in. But I’ve cleared it up below.
Yellow line next to my car filled the line marking.
And I’ve put an arrow indicating where the next line is. Just below the Mini’s tailpipe. Easily space for three cars even if the perspective is a little distorted in the image.

The double line of red bricks in the foreground marks the start of the ramp up to the doors and indicates a no parking area.

[jamei303]

I hate it when they use slightly different coloured bricks for parking lines instead of actual painted lines.

My local train station has done that for their short stay and drop-off parking. Lots of people don't even notice the "lines", and it's virtually impossible to see the spaces at night. The disabled spots are also marked by a small but stylish grey emblem on the bricks, also very difficult to see. I've taken to just ignoring it all and parking wherever seems reasonable.

[Hol]

mac96 said:

Hol said:

vikingaero said:

Sticks. said:

Blib said:

Great photo. I wonder what she's thinking.

Where's your residents parking permit?!

“If all the cars that blocked the kerbs were designed like this, even I could walk over the top of it”.

She is thinking the same as me. "I wish I was flexible enough to get in there"!

Getting out is the hard bit.

[Hol]

5s Alive said:

Square Leg said:

The Merc always parks there outside their house, the Toyota visiting someone else.

No one leaves their car like that without realising that they've blocked the road - so quite deliberate?

Even if there is some dispute with the Mercedes owner it still affects everyone else.

The actions of a complete knob.

Depends who parked first.

I can just as easily picture a scenario where the Toyota parked first and the Merc blocked the road subsequently because ‘they always park there’ and ‘everyone should know and revolve around them’.

[5s Alive]

Hol said:

Depends who parked first.

I can just as easily picture a scenario where the Toyota parked first and the Merc blocked the road subsequently because ‘they always park there’ and ‘everyone should know and revolve around them’.

You're probably correct, it does seem more likely than the visitor creating a problem.

[Pit Pony]

5s Alive said:

Hol said:

Depends who parked first.

I can just as easily picture a scenario where the Toyota parked first and the Merc blocked the road subsequently because ‘they always park there’ and ‘everyone should know and revolve around them’.

You're probably correct, it does seem more likely than the visitor creating a problem.

I usually park outside my house. Unless one of the houses opposite has a visitor. And then I don't block the road by parking in my usual spot. I park on my drive instead.

[donkmeister]

jamei303 said:

I hate it when they use slightly different coloured bricks for parking lines instead of actual painted lines.

Me too. When you stand back and look at a freshly laid car park in the daytime the lines might be clear. But, a wet car park, at night, when you are trying to avoid squashing tired fraught commuters who've yet to disengage "London stride" mode, no chance.

You can get really quite permeable tarmac for SUDS purposes now, and a bit of thermoset line marking onto existing blocks hardly affects things either.

[Drumroll]

Vipers said:

Yes about parking facing traffic, but I bet no one has ever been done for that.

My dad was done once for it, what really miffed him off was it was street full of park cars, so being parked "the wrong way" made no difference to his cars visibility to other traffic.

[Deranged Rover]

Hedge End Southampton M&S/Sainsburys, Sunday afternoon.

Approximately 100 free spaces just a row away but, no, let’s not trouble them…

[Rich Boy Spanner]

Flumpo said:

Square Leg said:

The Merc always parks there outside their house, the Toyota visiting someone else.

If the merc always parks like that, isn’t that an offence - no idea on the details, but I always thought you were not supposed to park facing the flow of traffic overnight.

If the Toyota was there first, merc driver is in the wrong even if he thinks he owns that part of the public highway.

Depends if the road has street lighting or not. This one does. It's also a back street so not some unlit 60 MPH A road.

[donkmeister]

Rich Boy Spanner said:

Flumpo said:

Square Leg said:

The Merc always parks there outside their house, the Toyota visiting someone else.

If the merc always parks like that, isn’t that an offence - no idea on the details, but I always thought you were not supposed to park facing the flow of traffic overnight.

If the Toyota was there first, merc driver is in the wrong even if he thinks he owns that part of the public highway.

Depends if the road has street lighting or not. This one does. It's also a back street so not some unlit 60 MPH A road.

I had someone with a bee in their bonnet about this blast their horn at me for (presumably) wrong side parking. There was noone else around and I can't think of any other reason he'd have been so excited...

I'd gone to collect a takeaway, and due to a one way system the only sensible route puts the parking on the opposite side of a two way road. The parking bays were empty save for one other car, there was no traffic so I pulled over and then fine tuned to get myself an inch from the kerb almost underneath one of the many streetlights on that slow, town centre street. Whilst doing so matey came along flashing his lights and honking angrily.

The alternative would have been a three/five point turn that he would have come into view just after beginning, so would have held him up. I'm looking out for "maniac wrong side parker incinerated my eyeballs with his 16 year old HID lamps!" in the knob thread but maybe the SAGA forum would be a better bet.