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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #925 on: 26 November, 2017, 11:38:20 pm »


Out of interest - one for the legal eagles - is it actually against the law to stop, or park (and leave the car) across someone's driveway?

I is not a lawyer, but round our way blocking you access to your driveway is practically* unenforceable but blocking you in, is fair game for the artists formerly known as traffic wardens. The local coonsull rely on the fact that the offending blocker is blocking access to a public highway. The lines, in their view, are irrelevant, as long as it is a recognised/recognisable dropped kerb. Speaking from experience. We dropped our kerb, sent a cheque for lines to be painted, then got told they aren't going to bother^ as the lines are merely for guidance and are unenforceable.

* Inasmuch that the will of the local enforcement is negligible to act on it.

^ "Cuts to local government... not worth it... subsidising the lines..." They still have our cheque.
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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #926 on: 27 November, 2017, 01:37:17 am »
I don't get bobb's  picture.   I see no driveway.  What are they doing wrong?
Is it because the image is too small on my phone?
They are parked on double yellows.

At a guess, it is one of those streets where the parking alternates sides. If people park on both sides, cars can't get through.

The old marital place had a convention of only parking on one side for the same reason, but there would always be one person who would insist that they had to be different.

Where I used to live in Dover, there was a consummate dickhead who always parked squarely in front of his house. If there were two spaces available, he parked in the middle of the tow, so as to occupy both, and with regular drain-related flooding, he even ignored the 'don't park here' signs that went up because twunt.

Where he parked was by a drain cover. They removed his car. We all laughed.

Down the road from him was someone who had been given their own disabled space, or perhaps marked it out themselves. They would park their car on the footpath, level with the 'disabled' box. Looking at Streetview, I see the box is still there, and is clearly being ignored (West end of Barton Road, Dover)
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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #927 on: 27 November, 2017, 02:39:46 pm »
Out of interest - one for the legal eagles - is it actually against the law to stop, or park (and leave the car) across someone's driveway?
Highway Code Rule 243
DO NOT stop or park:

-near a school entrance
-anywhere you would prevent access for Emergency Services
-at or near a bus or tram stop or taxi rank
-on the approach to a level crossing/tramway crossing
-opposite or within 10 metres (32 feet) of a junction, except in an authorised parking space
-near the brow of a hill or hump bridge
-opposite a traffic island or (if this would cause an obstruction) another parked vehicle
-where you would force other traffic to enter a tram lane
-where the kerb has been lowered to help wheelchair users and powered mobility vehicles
-in front of an entrance to a property
-on a bend
-where you would obstruct cyclists’ use of cycle facilities

except when forced to do so by stationary traffic.
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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #928 on: 27 November, 2017, 04:09:40 pm »
I love the do not park within 32 feet of a junction one. In our village people visiting the pub park right on the junction with the car frequently sticking out into the junction by several feet.
Often there will be three cars parked illegally n the junction at once. Not once in the twenty years I have lived here has anyone got a ticket for doing this even though a traffic cop lives n the village and drives past this almost every day.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #929 on: 27 November, 2017, 09:05:25 pm »
I love the do not park within 32 feet of a junction one. In our village people visiting the pub park right on the junction with the car frequently sticking out into the junction by several feet.
Often there will be three cars parked illegally n the junction at once. Not once in the twenty years I have lived here has anyone got a ticket for doing this even though a traffic cop lives n the village and drives past this almost every day.

A constant problem in these parts. Council thought they could resolve by painting double yellow lines around the junctions - of course, the cars circumvented that by parking on the pavement on the junction  :facepalm: . Most of the others on that list are broken daily on the same road - what do you expect with three schools on the road !

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #930 on: 27 November, 2017, 10:24:54 pm »
Parking on the pavement/verge or whatever doesn't circumvent the double yellow lines. The lines indicate no parking on that part of the highway. The highway extends from margin to margin not kerb to kerb so, if the road is between two hedges, with a 6 foot grass verge then pavement then kerb then road, the restriction is effective right up to the hedges.

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #931 on: 28 November, 2017, 10:11:35 pm »
If only it were enforced, fuzzy...
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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #932 on: 29 November, 2017, 04:32:17 am »
There are signs strapped to the lamp-posts in the neighbourhood warning that parking will be be Policely Forbidden on various days over the next fortnight or so because some kind of roadworks.  Today's street was just as full of parked cars as usual, though there was no evidence of brawny labourers drinking tea and leaning on their shovels either.  It's our turn next week.
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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #933 on: 02 December, 2017, 10:24:31 am »


A Cheshire pub car park

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #934 on: 02 December, 2017, 02:09:36 pm »

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #935 on: 04 December, 2017, 11:05:32 am »
https://youtu.be/5RXtlhqZ-7Y

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #936 on: 04 December, 2017, 11:32:45 am »
This is remarkable; a car gets towed away for blocking the pavement (no yellow lines)! And on a Sunday!
http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/car-towed-pavement-parking-police-871316
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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #937 on: 04 December, 2017, 12:28:43 pm »
I don't get bobb's  picture.   I see no driveway.  What are they doing wrong?
Is it because the image is too small on my phone?

I didn't post a picture. It was just a question...
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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #938 on: 04 December, 2017, 12:34:49 pm »
Sorry bobb, my mistake.  It was Roger's picture.
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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #939 on: 05 December, 2017, 09:49:53 am »
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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #940 on: 05 December, 2017, 09:58:41 am »
Is that Joe's Bakery again?
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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #941 on: 05 December, 2017, 10:54:10 am »
Is that Joe's Bakery again?

Not this time (could fill a whole album with JtB's pavement parking). It's the Clean Bean Launderette Cafe just up the road.
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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #942 on: 05 December, 2017, 12:37:47 pm »


Right foot on the tyre, left foot on the top of the bonnet, right on the wing mirror, grab the aerial with the left hand and haul yourself onto the roof, shuffle across to the other side and descend in reverse?
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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #943 on: 05 December, 2017, 01:15:30 pm »

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #944 on: 05 December, 2017, 01:38:24 pm »
I'll just leave this here: https://twitter.com/bbcmtd/status/937738979520253953
WTF is happening with West Midlands Police (or Mercia Cops or whatever they're called)? It's almost as if they've been infected by common sense or something. Are they no longer associated with other UK police forces? A sort of Policexit? Or has Barakta been grinking them?
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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #945 on: 05 December, 2017, 01:41:02 pm »
TBH, I think it's just Ossifers Hudson and Hobson being uncharacteristically sensible.  Don't think they represent the force as a whole, though I suspect some of the sense is creeping out to the rest of the traffic unit (which is probably about 4 of them).

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #946 on: 05 December, 2017, 01:43:13 pm »
Are they the same ones doing the Close Pass scheme (or was that Thomson and Thompson?)
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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #947 on: 05 December, 2017, 01:43:34 pm »
Are they the same ones doing the Close Pass scheme (or was that Thomson and Thompson?)

The very same.

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #948 on: 06 December, 2017, 11:19:32 am »
Yay!
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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #949 on: 07 December, 2017, 02:36:40 pm »
Yeahbut, why aren't they off tackling real crime like rape, murder and burglarizing?

(Just in case-  ;) )

Well done them :thumbsup: