Pavement parking ban

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NMNeil

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5,860 posts

49 months

Thursday 6th May 2021
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At the moment it's illegal to park on the pavement in London, and that law will be expanded shortly to cover the whole of the UK.
Of course many will simply ignore the law and carry on blocking the pavement, but to stop this some enterprising soul has come up with the most ridiculous and over the top 'solution'.
And I thought we in the US were the ones to come up with dumb ideas. eek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0moP21omQXc

gmasterfunk

451 posts

147 months

Thursday 6th May 2021
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Loving the terrorism angle. "Steel and concrete barriers are not a long term solution". This however will give those pesky terrorists..... a flat tyre!*

Unless they have run flats. Or foam fill their tyres. Or just ignore a flat tyre.

I'm sure it has some actual potentially good uses. but i also think there's some tricky liability questions for accidental activation (they are not very overt) or a partial activation causing a blowout later, say if it just nicked the sidewall?

Also that welding though!

Pastie Bloater

694 posts

162 months

Thursday 6th May 2021
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Good, but we need less pavement furniture not more.
Surprised they were allowed to install those?

mmm-five

11,227 posts

283 months

Friday 7th May 2021
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I expect the councils will just expect people to block the roads with cars instead...or allow so many exemptions that it won't matter.

There's no yellow lines on our roads (yet), so in theory we could park all along it - but even if each house only parked on car on the road, there'd be no way for anything other than a bicycle to get through.

Our pavements are wide enough to park a car wholly on them, so allowing people to park half-on/half-off seems to solve the space/obstruction issue without any cost...or they could spend some cash and make the pavement slightly narrower for the few people who do actually walk these days.

littlebasher

3,767 posts

170 months

Friday 7th May 2021
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Nice, so if you trip on the pavement or fall off your bike - free labotomy

What could go wrong?

LuS1fer

41,086 posts

244 months

Friday 7th May 2021
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What a load of junk.
For a start, it is criminal damage and anyone responsible for deliberately damaging a tyre will find themselves in court.

A stinger is different as it stops crime, I doubt parking on the pavement can be classed as anything other than parking enforcement. Imagine if they ditched wheel clamps and instead stuck a knife in your sidewalls.

Also, imagine an ambulance having to park on the pavement to answer an emergency call...

Wackywoo105

352 posts

89 months

Friday 7th May 2021
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I hope someone didn't invest a load of money in developing that.

NMNeil

Original Poster:

5,860 posts

49 months

Friday 7th May 2021
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What I can't understand is that you have to dig a hole in the pavement to install it, so why not just dig the hole and put in bollards?


NMNeil

Original Poster:

5,860 posts

49 months

Friday 7th May 2021
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Wackywoo105 said:
I hope someone didn't invest a load of money in developing that.
Judging by the welds; no.

Kraken

1,710 posts

199 months

Saturday 8th May 2021
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That thing was being touted around over three years ago now so I think it's fairly safe to say no-one is interested in it. Totally bonkers idea.

ReverendCounter

6,087 posts

175 months

Saturday 8th May 2021
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Look at the rest of the youtube content, you can get an idea of their mindset.

A human powered bicycle gritter, an exploding bicycle alarm, a pedal tricycle with an engine and large propellor on the back.

p4cks

6,885 posts

198 months

Saturday 8th May 2021
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NMNeil said:
Wackywoo105 said:
I hope someone didn't invest a load of money in developing that.
Judging by the welds; no.
I've never used a welder in my life but I still think I could do better welds than that, on my first attempt, blindfolded.

Fastpedeller

3,848 posts

145 months

Sunday 9th May 2021
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Crikey - Granny is about to step off the pavement and end up in hospital with a tube through her foot!

NMNeil

Original Poster:

5,860 posts

49 months

Sunday 9th May 2021
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ReverendCounter said:
Look at the rest of the youtube content, you can get an idea of their mindset.

A human powered bicycle gritter, an exploding bicycle alarm, a pedal tricycle with an engine and large propellor on the back.
An exploding bicycle alarm?
You mean like a Claymore strapped to the handlebars with the, "Front Toward Enemy" facing up? biggrin

bartelbe

92 posts

79 months

Thursday 13th May 2021
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Sadly inconsiderate people abusing a commonsense approach to parking have ruined it for everyone else. All drivers had to do is show consideration for others and not block the pavements.

Not to mention reckless drivers driving at speed on the pavement to park. Having almost been run over by a white van and a car while on the pavement, I can see why there has been pressure for a ban.

Fastpedeller

3,848 posts

145 months

Thursday 13th May 2021
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bartelbe said:
Sadly inconsiderate people abusing a commonsense approach to parking have ruined it for everyone else. All drivers had to do is show consideration for others and not block the pavements.

Not to mention reckless drivers driving at speed on the pavement to park. Having almost been run over by a white van and a car while on the pavement, I can see why there has been pressure for a ban.
Maybe the traffic wardens or Police could crack down on those who 'take it too far'

stogbandard

366 posts

49 months

Thursday 13th May 2021
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I can understand why but I don’t agree with it. As said above it’s the few thick as mince/urine extractors who almost park over the whole pavement and give people in wheelchairs or with pushchairs nowhere to go except on the road.

Would it be easier to have a 1.2m (4ft) rule, whereby if you leave less than that in pavement width you can be entitled to be royally flogged in public with wet fish?

Tlandcruiser

2,788 posts

197 months

Thursday 3rd June 2021
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I’m glad pavements are being banned. There’s a road near me with nice detached houses, a pavement and then some areas a strip of grass between the pavement and road. Despite all having large drives, people park on the pavement and grass. Destroying the grass verges. What’s more annoying is the road is wide enough not to warrant parking on the pavement or grass verge.

anonymous-user

53 months

Saturday 5th June 2021
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Tlandcruiser said:
I’m glad pavements are being banned. There’s a road near me with nice detached houses, a pavement and then some areas a strip of grass between the pavement and road. Despite all having large drives, people park on the pavement and grass. Destroying the grass verges. What’s more annoying is the road is wide enough not to warrant parking on the pavement or grass verge.
If it's not the road you live on, why is it any of your business whether the people who live there destroy the grass outside their own houses?

Muddle238

3,871 posts

112 months

Wednesday 9th June 2021
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JimSuperSix said:
Tlandcruiser said:
I’m glad pavements are being banned. There’s a road near me with nice detached houses, a pavement and then some areas a strip of grass between the pavement and road. Despite all having large drives, people park on the pavement and grass. Destroying the grass verges. What’s more annoying is the road is wide enough not to warrant parking on the pavement or grass verge.
If it's not the road you live on, why is it any of your business whether the people who live there destroy the grass outside their own houses?
I think in a lot of cases, the grass verges outside peoples driveways actually belong to the council, however the residents will “adopt” the land as an extension of their own property, usually by parking a car on it.

The verges then get trashed and makes the whole street look scruffy and run-down. Do as you wish to your own garden, but I can understand the annoyance in public spaces being decimated by folk driving cars and vans over soft verges and destroying them.