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Entirely unashamed anti car propaganda, and the more the better.

Saul Goodman said:
Imagine that, being able to park where you want on your own property! Next thing you know those cunts will be deciding for themselves what they want to eat! Won't somebody think of imaginary people who might trespass onto their property with a pram! :D
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Rule 244. You MUST NOT park partially or wholly on the pavement in London, and should not do so elsewhere unless signs permit it. Parking on the pavement can obstruct and seriously inconvenience pedestrians, people in wheelchairs or with visual impairments and people with prams or pushchairs.

You probably never got that far in the HIghway Code.

A twat in my road has the only house with a garage. Unfortunately his garage is full of junk, no room for a car and he decided this meant he was allowed to park on his 'drive' across the pavement. This was two years ago when my littlest was in a pram, his house is right on the corner and I'd have to go in the street with a baby in pram essentially nto a blind corner. He got daily tickets and somehow managed to contest them in court (fuck knows how, must have been some technicality because he was definitely not allowed to park there). I can't tell you how I got him to move it in the end because Spymaster will claim that I'm lying. Proper lazy fucker too. It's been nearly two years; I would have t-cut it myself by now.
 
maomao said:
Where is it then? teuchter lives in London and said he walked there.
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Somewhere not London. No one would routinely park like that in London and still expect their car to be there when they got back. Pavement (or at least partial-pavement) parking is allowed in some places, even in London. There are signs and road markings though and those pavements don't have them.
 
Bahnhof Strasse said:
Bradford.
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I know Bradford (my dad's hometown) and ime wouldn't have to walk far to see that or worse. Pavement parking outside London is a scourge and a nightmare for the disabled and non drivers with small kids. And just annoying and unsightly for those of us who aren't lazy twats and might want to walk somewhere once in a while.
 
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maomao said:
I know Bradford (my dad's hometown) and ime wouldn't have to walk far to see that or worse. Pavement parking outside London is a scourge and a nightmare for the disabled and non drivers with small kids. And just annoying and unsightly for those of us who aren't lazy years and might want to walk somewhere once in a while.
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Whilst this is true and moves are afoot to adopt the London model elsewhere, I doubt you’d need to walk do walk down Broad Street in Bradford, the one tooch claims to have strolled to, as it is a dead end street.
 
I'm not sure what being a dead end's got to do with it. You think if a young mum who needs to push s buggy moves into the bottom house all those cunts are going to move?
 
maomao said:
I'm not sure what being a dead end's got to do with it. You think if a young mum who needs to push s buggy moves into the bottom house all those cunts are going to move?
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There are no houses down Broad Street. More to the point though, should your hypothetical young mum with a need to push a buggy down that street appear she can do so with ease as it is a no-through road so not filled with traffic, the cobbles will be her biggest problem, but as someone who lives in a town with cobbled streets I can say that pushing a buggy down them was never a big issue, more a bit bouncy for the brat.
 
At the risk of agreeing with teuchter on something I do think that parking on the pavement should be banned, there also needs to be a lot more banning of parking on the street where it narrows the road to the point where 2 vehicles can't easily pass.
As for Broad St in Bradford, if it's unadopted then its effectively private property and no different from a car park and it's down to the companies based there or their landlord (since I presume they probably rent the space) to decide what restrictions they want to impose (or not) on parking.
 
MickiQ said:
At the risk of agreeing with teuchter on something I do think that parking on the pavement should be banned, there also needs to be a lot more banning of parking on the street where it narrows the road to the point where 2 vehicles can't easily pass.
As for Broad St in Bradford, if it's unadopted then its effectively private property and no different from a car park and it's down to the companies based there or their landlord (since I presume they probably rent the space) to decide what restrictions they want to impose (or not) on parking.
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Agree about parking on pavements but historically parked cars have been used as a means of traffic calming. The less space the slower the traffic moves. Obviously there can be a negative side to that as well.

As for unadopted roads they are bit of issue for many reasons and there are a lot of grey areas in the law around them. I should know as I live on one.
 
MickiQ said:
As for Broad St in Bradford, if it's unadopted then its effectively private property and no different from a car park and it's down to the companies based there or their landlord (since I presume they probably rent the space) to decide what restrictions they want to impose (or not) on parking.
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That's kind of the point of my post though; it shows the selfish behaviour motorists will default to if they are not actively policed.

In any case, whoever is responsible for managing the land ought to be doing so in a way that maintains accessibility and they are completely failing to do so. Doesn't matter if you want to designate it as a car park - you still have to provide safe and equitable access to all the building entrances. Plus there should be some provision for disabled parking.
 
Now I'm in Carlisle and just watched someone on a mobility scooter have to shout at a driver who'd stopped on a pedestrian crossing to get out of the way, just so that they could get across the street while a green man was showing.
 
maomao said:
Not sure what an e-assist bike is. Pedal assisted motorbikes have been around for donkeys years, it's what the word moped originally referred to. Making the engines electric doesn't actually change anything.
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E-assist is what's known as an e-bike, it does exactly what it says, the e(lectric engine) assists the pedalling. Unlike a motorbike an e-assist bike stops if you don't pedal. An electric motorbike is just that, a motorbike with an electric engine, no pedalling needed. But when people talk of e-bikes they mean electrically assisted bikes, which basically take the sting out of hills.
 
Bahnhof Strasse said:
E-assist is what's known as an e-bike, it does exactly what it says, the e(lectric engine) assists the pedalling. Unlike a motorbike an e-assist bike stops if you don't pedal. An electric motorbike is just that, a motorbike with an electric engine, no pedalling needed. But when people talk of e-bikes they mean electrically assisted bikes, which basically take the sting out of hills.
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Motorised bicycle/motorbike. Same difference.
 
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