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[Alis girls]

its rant time again so heres mine - I live on a main road which is difficult to get onto at the best of times with the car when coming out of drive. Some idiot's car is overlapping drive by about 2ft I would say. I have stuck a note on the window screen telling them how hard they have made things - you could easily clip their car trying to get out. No doubt it will end up as litter on my garden. I have taken car make and number.

 

These stoopid individuals get me sooooo mad. There I feel better - rant over

[Tiggy]

you rant away, its just down right rude to park over someones drive

[cyclonetog]

It's also illegal if there is a car on the drive at the time...

[squiffs]

It's also illegal if there is a car on the drive at the time...

 

It should be illegal either way, people need to park back on their drives at some point.

[chickencam]

Do these people just not think? What if the person needed to get their car out to get to a hospital etc. It happens a lot around the primary school where my children went. I would only rarely take the car near the school and I would never have parked over someone's driveway.

[Griffin]

Yesterday I complained to the school & the police about the awful and dangerous parking and driving along the road the school is on. It takes three minutes for us to walk from the top of our hill to the school and it's got to the point where I don't feel safe. The final straw was a car driving towards me on the pavement as I walked home! So many times I see cars mounting the pavement to get by when the road is blocked by cars. The point I made to the police was that their operation to ticket every car on the double yellow lines at the bottom of the road was successful but that those cars now park at the other end, on a corner, on a junction and all the way around the bend. Visibility is nil there because there are so many cars parked near and on the junction and that's where someone is going to get killed. The law states you cannot park opposite a junction (that didn't stop Tuesdays idiot of the day) or within 32 feet of a junction. The police said they'd start ticketing on the junction yesterday but all I saw was them catching one car parked on the double yellows. I felt a sense of smug satisafaction that the police were there because I'd called them but I wish they'd got the culprits at the other end of the road. Hopefully they'll be back today.

 

The same idiotic drivers park across driveways too. They obviously seem to think that because it's only for a few minutes it's ok

[Chicken shack]

its rant time again so heres mine - I live on a main road which is difficult to get onto at the best of times with the car when coming out of drive. Some idiot's car is overlapping drive by about 2ft I would say. I have stuck a note on the window screen telling them how hard they have made things - you could easily clip their car trying to get out. No doubt it will end up as litter on my garden. I have taken car make and number.

 

These stoopid individuals get me sooooo mad. There I feel better - rant over

When I lived in London the council gave us a number we could ring and a traffic warden used arrive within mins and stick a ticket on the offending car if it was accross our drive, enen by a foot. We did not have a yellow line. We found this very satisfying although it didnt help me when my car was stuck in the garage. Thankfully those days our now over.

[Bramble]

I live in a (relatively) new house of three years old - the road is very narrow (presumably so they could build more houses ) and I have horrendous problems with people blocking my drive by parking across it but on the other side of the road, if you know what I mean, it's SOOOOOOO infuriating, people just don't show any consideration, but it's only going to get worse because most of the houses have inadequate parking (i have a garage that isn't big enough to get a car in ) and they are now building more houses ...

[Cinnamon]

We have a little collection of big traffic cones,which we tend to pop along outside the house when we know it is going to be busy in the village.

Happily this is only a couple of times a year,when a few local gardens are open to the public,but you can guarantee that it will either coincide with us having a delivery made (we have our own business,so regularly have huge items delivered here),or someone will park right over our double gates,making it impossible to get out as you can't see past the car to pull onto the road.

 

Can you maybe contact your local Highways department to see if you can get a Keep Clear marked on the road outside your home? I know some houses have this,but am not sure what the criteria is.

[ClaireG]

Have you got a community support officer for your area? We have problems with parking where we are ie there is too little so my husband has to park elsewhere. The neighbors have taken offence to where he parks although he is not causing an obstruction or anything. Our local community support officer has been very helpful in dealing with this.

[Alis girls]

i am so happy I am not alone - I love a forum rant - and breathe

[Alis girls]

i think it was a woman too as it had pink furry dice and a leopard print scarf on passenger seat -( either that or a transvestite !) very inconsiderate who ever they were

[Leicester_H]

Can you maybe contact your local Highways department to see if you can get a Keep Clear marked on the road outside your home? I know some houses have this,but am not sure what the criteria is.

 

We had a similar problem (before our neighbours moved). I enquired about a white line marking on the road (defining our dropped kerb driveway). They said they'd do it but it would cost £30 (I think - not much anyway). Might be worth thinking about ?

 

H

[chick wiggle]

Id be tempted to treat myself to a very cheap old banger so i could 'move' the offending cars myself, or 'bump' into a few of the offending cars 'accidentally'. They would soon stop then ...........or is that just me

[Cinnamon]

Can you maybe contact your local Highways department to see if you can get a Keep Clear marked on the road outside your home? I know some houses have this,but am not sure what the criteria is.

 

We had a similar problem (before our neighbours moved). I enquired about a white line marking on the road (defining our dropped kerb driveway). They said they'd do it but it would cost £30 (I think - not much anyway). Might be worth thinking about ?

 

H

 

Bargain!!!

[Alis girls]

Thanks might do that as its a regualar occurence

[Griffin]

Two cars parked mounting the kerb opposite the junction this afternoon I took both registration numbers down and will be reporting back to the police tomorrow. They didn't turn up today which is a shame because they could've made a fortune in fines!

[Ain't Nobody Here]

Someone left their car parked outside my house for 6 weeks this summer . He'd parked it so that the skip I needed for gardening work had to block my driveway and made it really tricky to get out.

 

He eventually appeared with a nice tan (and a set of jump leads ) but I didn't have the nerve to tell him what I thought of his parking .

[Alis girls]

the urge to let the tyres down was nagging at me all day

[chick wiggle]

How about getting yourself a high-vis vest and a clipboard and walking up and down the road taking registration numbers, looking all official. That should scare a few off and if it doesnt then you have the numbers to hand into the authoritys!

[snowberry]

The parking situation up at our primary school is a joke; I leave home & get to school 1/2 hr early some days so that I can get a good spot without having to walk for ages. Usually I'm lucky enough to park just behind the zig zags. Every day a woman parks up on them; she gets right looks from me! Even disabled drivers can't park on them for the safety of the children so why does she think she can? Grrr

[Forestchook]

There is a school at the end of the road my brother & his wife live on. The 6th formers keep parking too close to their driveway so its hard for them to get in or out! My brother makes sure if he is inconvinienced the school is too! i.e. parking in their carpark because he cannot get into his driveway, threatening to do so with a trailer. Also making a staff member walk down to take the number of the car(s) causing trouble as he has had to walk up to the school. Needless to say he is not amused by the plans to enlarge the school (while reducing the carparking). Anyway the best incident was a woman fully blocking the driveway waiting for her child. When my SIL asked her to move because she had to go out to college the woman looked up and said 'Can't you wait ten minutes?' The answer was an empahtic NO!

[squiffs]

My nana's house is in a small cul de sac surrounded by 3 schools (2 secondary schools and sixth form) and their shared playing fields. People park in the cul de sac partially on the houses' front lawns. it's ridiculous, the close is so narrow only one car can drive down it at a time until you get to the end anyway, so it makes it hellish to get out. The schools and college do put letters out and tell people not to do it, but since when did that do anything? The main road the cul de sac branches off from has a grass verge in the middle of it and people park on that too. AND drive over it to get onto the other side of the road instead of turning at the designated turning space, bleh. I am so glad I don't drive.

 

 

I also get the pleasure of walking to work uphill on the pavement and being faced with a car driving down the pavement at me. Not just mounting the kerb, the cars park on the pavement and then other cars park on the road blocking them in, so then the drivers drive down the pavement to the next junction. And they seem to find it annoying that pedestrians are slow to move out of their way.

[Ziggy]

Driving and parking attitudes must be one of the things that bring the most aggravation to everyone!!

 

Living in a street that's very close to two big schools, and taking my own kids to another neighbourhood to their school, I witness all kinds of stuff too... I never park blocking somebody's driveway, and even when my younger girls were toddlers and babies, I parked where I could without causing trouble, and walked to the school, with sling/pushchair and a collection of school bags in tow. Yet so often, I see mums who have no babies/toddlers/pushchairs or anything to slow them down, and nothing to carry, park wherever they please, hop out of the car, skip to school (well they don't really skip, but it feels like that) and then moan like hell if they get a parking ticket, when it's just that they're too lazy or inconsiderate to park their car somewhere appropriate. It drives me mad. Here in our street, people insist on waiting for their secondary school kids right at the corner, where it's a T-junction, so there are cars all along all corners and pavements there, leaving no 'passing spaces', so cars queue up in both directions to get in and out of those streets, when if those people parked a little further out into the street, they'd totally free the junction... It drives me mad to see those people sit in their car, looking around them at all the chaos they cause, and still stay there with a self-satisfied look on their face.

 

This being said, I've also witnessed the other extreme of things, when residents anywhere get so possessive of their streets and parking spaces that they have a go at anyone who dares entering the street, even when no inconvenience is caused... once I was yelled at for parking across the drive (on the other side of the road) from somebody's property, when the road there is most definitely wide enough to make a comfortable manoeuvre (I know cause I've got a big family car and have done said manoeuvre without any issues with cars across drive in same road), and they had just very easily brought their car into their drive... there are many, very wide drives all along that street, it's in a country village, so if you can't park anywhere near one, you can't park at all...

 

I also see streets where there is only residents' parking, although all houses are detached with drives big enough to fit three or four cars, and if anyone parks to wait for their child for a few minutes, the residents go up in arms, and that's totally unreasonable. I too live in such a street, and if someone wants to park, without obstructing anything or putting anyone in danger, to wait for their child for five minutes, what harm does it do? It certainly doesn't stop residents from parking in their drives. We never needed residents' only parking here in my street, we all have drives, and the streets are totally empty, except at school time and church time... so why resent parents who need to wait there briefly?

 

Strangely enough, I always hear less or no complains about people parking in residents' spots when it's for church... why is going to church a more acceptable reason to park illegally, than picking up one's kids from school? Surely if mothers should walk/park somewhere else, so could church going people?