Pavement parking ban!

[Lancpudn]

Originally Posted by macafee2

I can see parking wars looming. I wonder if house prices will fall if they dont have their own parking or not enough parking.

Is this a cash cow or a safety issue?

macafee2

Are we headed for Japan's approach to private car parking where you need 'Proof of Parking' to get your car registered?

[Lancpudn]

Watch out if you're in Edinburgh! Edinburgh first to enforce a pavement parking ban from today, Motorist will face a £100 fine. https://www.localgov.co.uk/Edinburgh...king-ban/58742

[Arctic]

Great the quicker they bring it in here the better, one of my pet hates, pavement parking, drives me

[StewartIngram]

I agree. Pavements are for people, roads are for cars. And structurally the pavement isn't built to support the weight of vehicles.

[gnu]

In town some streets it’s impossible to park without blocking the road without putting 2 wheels on the pavement. I suspect there will be a difference of opinion here, depending on the neighbourhoods in which you live / need to visit…

[planenut]

In many areas there are marked areas allowing parking on pavements.

My scheme proposed to M.P.s was "Make a metre", meaning less than a metre, fine them. Nobody seemed to agree.

[Lancpudn]

Cars are getting wider too by 1cm every two years There's a vote in France tomorrow whether to triple parking fees for them.


"Among the top 100 models in 2023, 52% of vehicles sold were too wide for the minimum specified on-street parking space (180 cm) in major cities, including London, Paris and Rome, the research also finds. Off-street parking is now a tight squeeze even for the average new car (180 cm wide), while large luxury SUVs no longer fit. Measuring around 200 cm wide, large luxury SUVs leave too little space for car occupants to get in and out of vehicles in typical off-street spaces (240 cm)."

https://www.transportenvironment.org...ears-research/

[stevestrat]

Pavement parking ban is causing problems in Edinburgh with bin lorries, basically anything wider than a car, unable to get down the remaining gap. Council now talking about double yellow lines in several problem streets.

[torque2me]

Originally Posted by Lancpudn

Cars are getting wider too by 1cm every two years There's a vote in France tomorrow whether to triple parking fees for them.


"Among the top 100 models in 2023, 52% of vehicles sold were too wide for the minimum specified on-street parking space (180 cm) in major cities, including London, Paris and Rome, the research also finds. Off-street parking is now a tight squeeze even for the average new car (180 cm wide), while large luxury SUVs no longer fit. Measuring around 200 cm wide, large luxury SUVs leave too little space for car occupants to get in and out of vehicles in typical off-street spaces (240 cm)."

https://www.transportenvironment.org...ears-research/

We could have told the powers to be all that without a survey. The accumulated dings suggests that people cannot exit their wider vehicle with it's wider (?) doors. The only solution is to widen bays but also put vehicle size into the VED equation rather than onerous emission data.
Kev

[planenut]

Just returned from Birmingham, where, in the residential area I visited, eighty per cent of the vehicles were parked on the pavement. I witnessed a dispute with a resident from an adjacent building who felt that they they had more right to park on that pavement, at their favoured spot, than the person who parked on the road beside it, where there are no restriction markings, and that person should not park on the road at all. The roads in that area are much wider than any near me in West London.

There would be no way of restricting pavement parking in that area, so I cannot ever see that legislation would be passed to cover it.