People who park like fuds

[Kim]

Strange - I assume that's a garage forecourt? So why does it have a yellow cross-hatched box - used, IME, to protect difficult junctions?

Usually so that they can get a tanker to the appropriate place when needed.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Double yellow lines actually cover this. Setting down and picking up are forbidden, but (un)loading is permitted unless specifically forbidden (usually using the lines on the kerb). Waiting is permitted. Not sure about phone calls, then you should be parked, so from your list on a normal DYL, 1 and 2 are legal 3,4 and 5 are forbidden.
 

I think waiting is not permitted on DYL but setting down/picking up is.

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You MUST NOT wait or park on yellow lines during the times of operation shown on nearby time plates (or zone entry signs if in a Controlled Parking Zone) – see 'Information signs' and 'Road markings'. Double yellow lines indicate a prohibition of waiting at any time even if there are no upright signs. You MUST NOT wait or park, or stop to set down and pick up passengers, on school entrance markings (see 'Road markings') when upright signs indicate a prohibition of stopping.

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport/Highwaycode/DG_069860

[Rhys W]

Mostly, they are going to the corner shop for a pack of fags, a bag of crisps and a lottery ticket.

LOL at the statistics fail.

[mcshroom]

This was in a completely full Co-op car park this morning. If they needed the extra room why not just park in the right hand bay?

[hellymedic]

This was in a completely full Co-op car park this morning. If they needed the extra room why not just park in the right hand bay?

The driver did not wish to scuff his door on that nice pebbledash?

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

Is this board googleable? If it is, I'd like to say blue Peugeot M222 MSC is parked by a fud.

[mcshroom]

Is this board googleable? If it is, I'd like to say blue Peugeot M222 MSC is parked by a fud.

[pedant]It's a Vauhall Astra[/pedant]

Also that's a private plate

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

Oh yeah. I'm a div.

It's still parked by a fud though.

[RJ]

Oh yeah. I'm a div.

It's still parked by a fud though.

Or plod?  Not mutually exclusive, obv 

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

That's a possibility.

[Ham]

Tutorial, or set up?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fktCNv1ens

[Pingu]

Gairloch:


IMG_0460 by The Pingus, on Flickr

[Pingu]

Ullapool:


IMG_0435 by The Pingus, on Flickr

[rogerzilla]

Saab - the thinking person's car.

[AndyK]

Today. At least they weren't on the double-yellows… 

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/pAfBko-0Vps&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/pAfBko-0Vps&rel=1</a>

[clarion]

What's wrong with that?

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

Ferchrissake if you're going to park like a fud, be a bit more whole-hearted about it




From a distance I thought Davros had gone into the heating business, but I suppose he wouldn't be able to do the upstairs rooms

[clarion]

Southwark Bridge Road, 0830 today.









No, the distinctively marked one in the middle was not stopped to have a word with the others. 


ETA: I know this is very London-centric, so, for those provincials yet to experience the glory of Boris Johnson's wonderful Cycling Superhighways, that's it.  Yes, that crappy blue paint is it.

[jogler]

worrafukinwasteotime that cycle lane is
it's obviously going to be used for on-street parking

[Cudzoziemiec]

ETA: I know this is very London-centric, so, for those provincials yet to experience the glory of Boris Johnson's wonderful Cycling Superhighways, that's it.  Yes, that crappy blue paint is it.

Worrabout the blue square with CS7 painted on it in the middle of the 'normal' lane, what's the significance of that? Just to indicate a route as opposed to a lane - or to alert drivers that here be bikes in the road cos the cycle lane is upparked?

[clarion]

That, I suspect.
I can understand the one next to the Bus Stop, where cyclists will, occasionally, and quite reasonably, have to pull out.

[jogler]

That Cycling Superconvenient  on street parking faclity No way Highway is not going to work without rigorous enforcement of parking violations by the police.
Spot the irony in that statement.

[clarion]

This is not far from where a taxi company used to park their cars on the CSH under a bridge.

They've moved now, and block the cycle path round the corner

[Kim]

Worrabout the blue square with CS7 painted on it in the middle of the 'normal' lane, what's the significance of that? Just to indicate a route as opposed to a lane - or to alert drivers that here be bikes in the road cos the cycle lane is upparked?

It's to alert cyclists that some areas of the carriageway may be covered with an extra-slippery surface.

[benborp]

It's to alert cyclists that some areas of the carriageway may be covered with an extra-slippery surface.

To be fair, I had to perform an emergency stop this morning while traversing a blue CSH. The normal carriageway was slick with the standard London mix of diesel and 'rain' water, but the CSH felt squeaky clean and I pulled up a couple of feet shorter than I expected. Which was useful as the pedestrian that had skipped out of a side road and straight across the bus lane while looking in the opposite direction was trying his best to suspend himself in mid-air about eighteen inches ahead of my handlebars.