We don't own the public road outside our homes. We have no entitlement to park there.
I was picking my daughter up from her friends house recently and pulled in outside a neighbouring house in a wide, quite residential road. A man walked briskly out of the house to inform me that that was where his wife parked. I smiled and said that was nice but I was parking there for a few minutes. He said it better only be a few minutes. I told him that it was the public road and neither he or his wife had any more right to park there than me and that if he didn't back off I'd get a taxi home and leave my car there overnight.
There was more than enough room in his driveway for two cars.
I agree. I suspect they are the same people who queue jump & drive in Bus Lanes.This is exactly the attitude I cannot understand. He thinks it's his "right" to effectively reserve/withhold for personal use the space. I cannot stand this type of nonsense, reflects very poorly on people who think this way.
Totally agree regarding the not owning the public road outside our house, but, we live in a cul-de-sac and don't have off-street parking. We're also a 2 minute walk from an Aircoach stop and we have had occasionally people parking their car outside our house and leaving it there for a fortnight, really annoying.
It's got to the stage where we will have to put in car-parking in our front garden (which gets the sun and is nicer to sit in than the back) at significant expense that will reduce the parking available as others won't (hopefully) park in front of our driveway.
... park in Disabled parking bays, occupy two regular parking spots, park across others driveways or on footpaths, on double yellow lines, on clearways - unthinking, selfish idiots.
.....pull up into yellow boxes; drive up behind the car in front in heavy traffic rather than let someone in from a side road; keep in the "fast lane" and hold up lots of people because they are doing the speed limit.
Totally agree regarding the not owning the public road outside our house, but, we live in a cul-de-sac and don't have off-street parking. We're also a 2 minute walk from an Aircoach stop and we have had occasionally people parking their car outside our house and leaving it there for a fortnight, really annoying.
It's got to the stage where we will have to put in car-parking in our front garden (which gets the sun and is nicer to sit in than the back) at significant expense that will reduce the parking available as others won't (hopefully) park in front of our driveway.
Looked into it, Council more or less said we'd have to have a referendum on it! We have one car, a good few of our neighbours have 2 or 3 so unlikely to vote for it.The seems like a very good circumstance to look for pay & display.
Looked into it, Council more or less said we'd have to have a referendum on it! We have one car, a good few of our neighbours have 2 or 3 so unlikely to vote for it.
That was because we were all going to be using public transport by now... when they weren't on strike.Well done the planners for making roads so narrow everywhere that its a nightmare to park. Same all over.
Why? They'd be no worse off than they currently are; in fact almost certainly better as non-residents would be less willing to park, and couldn't for days at a time without the risk of being clamped. We have residents/pay and display parking where we are and have almost no problem along the lines you're talking about.
Well done the planners for making roads so narrow everywhere that its a nightmare to park. Same all over.
Well my understanding is that Council will only provide residence parking permits for 2 cars per house. A decent proportion of houses here have 3......
...The massive increase in width of cars is probably more to blame. In fairness our estate was built in the 1940's, not many would have had cars then at all, let alone 3 SUVs.
The massive increase in width of cars is probably more to blame. In fairness our estate was built in the 1940's, not many would have had cars then at all, let alone 3 SUVs.
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