Do you mount the pavement?
Discussion
Do you when parking on a street mount the pavement?
I think that mounting the pavement safely should become part of the driving test.
Where I live and in most towns and cities that I drive in - if cars did not mount the pavement then there would
be no chance of getting through many streets.
I think that mounting the pavement safely should become part of the driving test.
Where I live and in most towns and cities that I drive in - if cars did not mount the pavement then there would
be no chance of getting through many streets.
RobM77 said:
It's not only illegal but it obstructs pavements for pedestrians and especially disabled people in wheelchairs or elderly people using mobility scooters, so no.
Pavements are for pedestrians, roads are for cars - simple as.
On narrow paths.Pavements are for pedestrians, roads are for cars - simple as.
The paths in my road are more than wide enough for atleast 3 people to walk side by side comfortably.. So I do park on the curb, a little bit, maybe a foot on the curb. If we didn't down my road you'd never get past.
Its quiet though no one walks on paths anyway, usually up the middle of the road.
You can be ticketed for parking partly on the pavement. Plod usually turn a blind eye where it is done for sensible reasons (narrow streets) and it appears to be causing no hindrance to others (wheelchairs, pushchairs etc), but it is illegal, and hence a driving test fail if at any point during the test you mount the kerb. Even a couple of centimetres during a reverse park and then removing it is a fail. Harsh, but fact.
Thin White Duke said:
What if you arrive at someones house you must visit and it's a two way street but with cars parked down either side (albeit with enough room for you to park) and if you do not mount the kerb, you will block the road off?
I park where I do not block the road. I have a pair of legs and been trained to use them....I live on a very narrow edwardian era street. If everybody parked fully on the road there would only be room down the middle for cyclicts, and skinny ones at that!
As long as everyone applies some common sense (which is surprisingly most of the time) it doesn't obstruct the pavements too much - plenty of room left for pushchairs and wheelchairs for example.
Give-and-take and consideration for others. Better than a rigid rule obsessed approach in my experience...
As long as everyone applies some common sense (which is surprisingly most of the time) it doesn't obstruct the pavements too much - plenty of room left for pushchairs and wheelchairs for example.
Give-and-take and consideration for others. Better than a rigid rule obsessed approach in my experience...
Thin White Duke said:
With the advent of the motor car in the 50's/60's you'd have thought the government would have made provisions for more parking for residents in particular terraced housing.
Yeah, let's use tax-payers money to buy up land for state-owned free parking spaces, and compulsory purchase housing to demolish it and make way for more parking-friendly estates. How inconvenient that this country developed housing before the car was invented, and that we are all crammed in so tight on this little island that it has become a major issue in the last 50 years. What the government does try to do however, is deter private car ownership through excessive taxation, making more room for the rich elite to own and run cars unhindered by the poor getting in the way.mrtwisty said:
I live on a very narrow edwardian era street. If everybody parked fully on the road there would only be room down the middle for cyclicts, and skinny ones at that!
As long as everyone applies some common sense (which is surprisingly most of the time) it doesn't obstruct the pavements too much - plenty of room left for pushchairs and wheelchairs for example.
Give-and-take and consideration for others. Better than a rigid rule obsessed approach in my experience...
I agree with that - I've always been one for shunning rules for common sense. However, parking on the pavement as I've experienced it is just dangerous and annoying for pedestrians and especially wheelchairs etc. Obviously in individual cases it can be a net benefit (as with speeding!), but in my experience the average motorist is not intelligent enough to realise the difference, thus the need for rules.As long as everyone applies some common sense (which is surprisingly most of the time) it doesn't obstruct the pavements too much - plenty of room left for pushchairs and wheelchairs for example.
Give-and-take and consideration for others. Better than a rigid rule obsessed approach in my experience...
RobM77 said:
agree with that - I've always been one for shunning rules for common sense. However, parking on the pavement as I've experienced it is just dangerous and annoying for pedestrians and especially wheelchairs etc. Obviously in individual cases it can be a net benefit (as with speeding!), but in my experience the average motorist is not intelligent enough to realise the difference, thus the need for rules.
When I moved into this street I was a little concerned about the rule of the lowest common denominator and the parking situation, but I have been pleasantly surprised!We have a special needs centre at the top of the road and I regularly see the residents up and down the pavements with no problems.
Perhaps I'm living on the last street in Britain with decent people living on it?
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