Comment on Councils call for pavement parking to be banned across England

cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Zip2@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think it is illegal to completely obstruct a pavement to the point that wheelchairs, pushchairs etc can’t get past.

  But parking your car and leaving a bit of a gap is apparently fine.

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  • AnyOldName3@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    When I had driving lessons, it was taught that most people think that’s the rule, and in real life it practically is the rule, but it’s on the books as illegal to put your car on the pavement at all, and you’ll be penalised for it during the parking parts of a driving test.

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    • RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think the specific offence is driving on the pavement, which parking obviously requires, but I could be wrong.

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      • AnyOldName3@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        From the highway code:

        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.

        Law GL(GP)A sect 15

        Signs explicitly permitting it are rare.

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    • Zip2@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I know you’re not allowed to put an HGV on the pavement, but I thought everything else was ok.

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      • AnyOldName3@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        From the highway code:

        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.

        Law GL(GP)A sect 15

        Signs explicitly permitting it are rare.

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  • alibloke@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Except in London boroughs

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    • Palerider@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Because rich cunts see the fine as the parking fee…

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• DarkThoughts@fedia.io ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We have the same issue in Germany. :(
  Car drivers just get away with absolutely everything unfortunately.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s not the rule people, just think it’s the rule.

    So what happens is this, someone says you’re allowed to park on the pavement as long as you don’t obstruct the road, then someone else says no and quotes the highway code. Then you point out that the only thing you’re not allowed to do is park on the payment in London, and elsewhere you should basically not do it if you can avoid it.

    No one is going to get arrested for parking partially on the pavement outside of London unless you’ve been a complete dick about it, or if it’s unnecessary. For where it’s necessary as long as there’s no other parking restrictions then you should be fine as long as people pedestrians can get past.

    The highway code is fine in principle, but the people who wrote it have never been further north than Bedford.

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