Should Parking on Pavement be Illegal?

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I think parking on pavements is illegal in London but not elsewhere. It’s a bit of a bug bear of mine particularly in the village where I lived until recently.

I can’t see how it’s fair to force wheelchair users and young children into the road.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czrxdzymwjro

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Zigster said:

budgie smuggler said:

In those cases where there is no alternative, a bay can be drawn half in the road, half on the pavement.

eta - like this

I find that sort of solution very dishonest.

Painting a parking space on pavements encourages drivers to think it’s appropriate to park on footways in other places where they shouldn’t.

If the council have decided it’s a parking space rather than a footway, then make it actually part of the roadway. Remove the kerb, lower the level of the space needed, put a new kerb in where the footway actually ends.

Bouncing up and down kerbs is no good for the kerbs nor the wheels of the vehicles. It increases the risk of conflict between drivers and pedestrians - about 40 people a year are killed in the UK by drivers driving on pavements and at least some of these will be while trying to park.

I take your point but there’s not always much alternative. I reckon pavement parking should be outlawed except where marked as above.