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Parking on pavements to become unlawful.
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wizzard
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Isn't there a solid white line down the pavement that allows them to park on the pavement?
Glam
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Yeah.
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Gramaisc
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It actually requires cars parking there to be parked on the footpath.
Glam
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I'd love know how the residents feel now St.Georges has the ANPR cameras on site. Loads of patients relatives have received bills due to not registering their cars.
It will be interesting whether this is aimed at cars who have all 4 wheels on a pavement and blocking pedestrian access.
This is a real problem outside stoke post office for this.
There is only a layby for about 3 cars to access the main stoke on trent sorting office, the car park next door is the rail station pay and display, where one has to walk 100yards for a pay machine.
So it is common at peak times that cars completely mount the pavement as the road is completely double yellow, meaning pedestrians have go out into a very busy main to get around the vehicle
This is a real problem outside stoke post office for this.
There is only a layby for about 3 cars to access the main stoke on trent sorting office, the car park next door is the rail station pay and display, where one has to walk 100yards for a pay machine.
So it is common at peak times that cars completely mount the pavement as the road is completely double yellow, meaning pedestrians have go out into a very busy main to get around the vehicle
wizzard
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Yes, that's the point I was making, that cars are meant to park on the pavement.
Gramaisc
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Indeed, but they are not just "allowed" to park on the footpath, they are required to - parking in the more 'normal' manner, full on the road, is not allowed.
John Marwood
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A lawyer writes....
Whilst the fixed penalty of £70 is yet to be law, it is already an offence to drive onto a pavement, therefore anyone parking on a pavement has already committed an offence
Should the parking on a pavement become a bylaw a driver will be liable for 2 offences
Whilst the fixed penalty of £70 is yet to be law, it is already an offence to drive onto a pavement, therefore anyone parking on a pavement has already committed an offence
Should the parking on a pavement become a bylaw a driver will be liable for 2 offences
Some 20-odd years ago I parked my car part on the pavement outside my newly resurfaced drive in a short cul-de-sac. The next morning there was a police issued fixed penalty on the car for "wilful obstruction". My appeal was rejected even though I was "obstructing" my own drive. Apparently if I'd parked away from the dropped kerb they'd probably have accepted my appeal.
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Cue
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Yeah, just drove through there and if people weren't parking on the pavement the entire road would pretty much shut down. There's not enough room for going towards Riverway
kyoto49
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All those people who think this is good, can I ask where you think people who live in streets where parking a little on the pavement helps traffic continue to flow should park? It's a serious question. If everyone on my road legally parked on the road and not slightly on the pavement then the road is effectively blocked for fire engines, and any vehicle bigger than a large car. Further, if this is enforced, what do we do with the thousands of cars in Stafford that no longer have somewhere to park? This seems like a dig at those who own smaller houses without drives rather than a genuine attempt to make the streets safer for pedestrians which I'm all for given that I walk alot of places. Nowhere is more dangerous for pedestrians that those dickheads who have drives and just pull out of their drive to cross the pavement and who have high hedges that obscure fully their view of any pedestrians who are walking along about to cross the drive. Crossing these drives on the Eccleshall Road for example is like running a gauntlett of death. The house owners have complete disregard for pedestrains who might happen to be there.... If the aim is to genuinely improve pedestrian safety there are other areas that need tackling first before we penalise people who have parked a little on the kerb to maintain traffic flow. Imagine Co-operative Street if everyone parks on the road totally, you's will all soon be complaining that the road is too narrow to get down!!! And that will happen to many roads. not in the posh end obviously!!
Cue
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Agreed. Don't get me wrong when someone does it on a quiet estate and blocks 2/3 of the path it's ridiculous. Once lived on an estate New the uni and had someone regularly use the spot outside our house as a car park, not a student either. But until councils want to start planning roads with some ounce of common sense then this is going to end horribly.