Parking dilemma in the Peak District
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Catch 22,
As beauty spots get more popular, you don't really want to spoil them with acres of concrete car parks,
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz7ezg8lv25o
As beauty spots get more popular, you don't really want to spoil them with acres of concrete car parks,
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz7ezg8lv25o
We had a similar issue near us. There is a plantation with public access which is very popular with dog walkers from the nearby town. During the recent heavy snow the carpark was inaccessible to their unsuitable motability f
king Qashqais and Evoques so rather than go home the entitled tts decided to just park en-masse along the already narrow, snow cleared road, reducing a half-mile section to one lane, making an already difficult stretch almost impassable to farm vehicles.
It never ceases to amaze me how many people think the countryside is just some sort of playground for townies on weekends. Or those that think their £3 ice cream is keeping our community running and we should be grateful for their tourism.
All part of the fun of living in an AONB.
Never mind, once all the farms and estates are forced to sell and are replaced with wind and solar farms, there'll be nothing to look at anyway. Problem solved.
king Qashqais and Evoques so rather than go home the entitled tts decided to just park en-masse along the already narrow, snow cleared road, reducing a half-mile section to one lane, making an already difficult stretch almost impassable to farm vehicles.It never ceases to amaze me how many people think the countryside is just some sort of playground for townies on weekends. Or those that think their £3 ice cream is keeping our community running and we should be grateful for their tourism.
All part of the fun of living in an AONB.
Never mind, once all the farms and estates are forced to sell and are replaced with wind and solar farms, there'll be nothing to look at anyway. Problem solved.
Get this all the time, some of it is dangerous (especially if you are ridding a bike downhill), the rest just bloody rude and inconvenient.
People think it is ok to park between the bays, not caring that the gaps are there to aid passing for cars coming in oppose directions, when the gaps are full it can be absolute chaos.
No one badly parked in this photo, but shows gaps between designated bays.
People think it is ok to park between the bays, not caring that the gaps are there to aid passing for cars coming in oppose directions, when the gaps are full it can be absolute chaos.
No one badly parked in this photo, but shows gaps between designated bays.
We have the same, we are in the new Forest National Park and have a single track unmade road to our house which is not ours but is a right of way for us and non motorised vehicles. The National Park have signed this private with no public access as they do most roads leading to properties.
Despite being labeled private people often park on the verges of the track making it hard to get past. Whilst we were doing lots of building work we put a sign on a cone at the end of the track asking people not to park on the track due to large vehicles coming in and out. Did they bother?, actually seemed to increase the stupidly with one bloke driving up to the house and saying how disgusting it is we are redeveloping a run down farm house.
Luckily we are not in the tourist areas but seeing the self entitlement of how some drive and park in the summer is shocking.
Despite being labeled private people often park on the verges of the track making it hard to get past. Whilst we were doing lots of building work we put a sign on a cone at the end of the track asking people not to park on the track due to large vehicles coming in and out. Did they bother?, actually seemed to increase the stupidly with one bloke driving up to the house and saying how disgusting it is we are redeveloping a run down farm house.
Luckily we are not in the tourist areas but seeing the self entitlement of how some drive and park in the summer is shocking.
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