davieG Posted 18 April 2016 Posted 18 April 2016 Drivers face pavement parking ban Camilla Turner 18 APRIL 2016 • 8:14AM Drivers could be banned from parking on pavements under new Government plans to encourage people to walk and cycle. The ban has already been in place in London for the past 40 years, but ministers are now considering rolling it out across the country with potential fines of up to £70 for those who fall foul of the measures. Road safety campaigners and disability groups have welcomed the proposed ban, but motoring organisations have warned that it could lead to local councils exploiting their power to raise extra revenue. Under existing measures, motorists are barred from pavement parking unless expressly permitted by a local authority in the capital. “The concern would be that local authorities will be able to ban pavement parking without looking at the consequences – and without studying the alternatives,” AA president Edmund King explained told The Daily Mail. “The concern would be that local authorities will be able to ban pavement parking without looking at the consequences – and without studying the alternatives” AA president Edmund King “Getting rid of pavement parking is fine – but only if you then remove some of the redundant double-yellow lines in order to create space elsewhere.” A spokesman from The Alliance of British Drivers added: “You can’t have people blocking the pavement, but there are lots of places where the roads are just not wide enough for the traffic to flow backwards and forwards if they park on the road.” A pavement parking ban has been in force in London since 1974 but outside the capital, mounting the kerb is generally allowed apart from where vehicles are causing an obstruction, or on roads with other restrictions such as double-yellow lines. Local authorities can use existing Traffic Regulation Orders to ban pavement parking on certain roads. The Department for Transport is considering overhauling the rules to bring the rest of the country in line with the capital. The Government has begun a study into the problem, working with the organisation Guide Dogs for the Blind. Disability groups have previously warned that pavement parking can be potentially hazardous, for example if a blind person is made to walk into the road to avoid parked cars. A Department for Transport spokesman said: “We are currently considering the rules around pavement parking, including whether more can be done to make it easier for councils to tackle problem areas in a consistent way.”
Great Boos Up Posted 18 April 2016 Posted 18 April 2016 Solves one problem but creates a dozen more. Probably thought up by people who have electric gates to their own multi car space gravelled drive.
Trav Le Bleu Posted 18 April 2016 Posted 18 April 2016 Solves one problem but creates a dozen more. Probably thought up by people who have electric gates to their own multi car space gravelled drive. Exactly. The kind of people who don't live in terraced streets where if no one parked on the pavement, you wouldn't be able to drive down it. As the article states, there are laws in existence already that allow councils to ban pavement parking where necessary, so there's no need for a draconian blanket ban.
Great Boos Up Posted 18 April 2016 Posted 18 April 2016 Another stealth tax to take from the average tax paying middle England motorist.
Hollism Posted 18 April 2016 Posted 18 April 2016 This would be stupid. Thing is, it'll probably get put into effect to some extent, then a fire engine will go down a small street in an emergency and destroy about 40 cars, and then the residents will sue the council, and then taxpayers will be even more out of pocket. Geniuses these campaigners are.
Christoph Posted 18 April 2016 Posted 18 April 2016 Exactly. The kind of people who don't live in terraced streets where if no one parked on the pavement, you wouldn't be able to drive down it. As the article states, there are laws in existence already that allow councils to ban pavement parking where necessary, so there's no need for a draconian blanket ban. This all over. Do they not realise how narrow some of the roads are in the UK?
FLAN Posted 18 April 2016 Posted 18 April 2016 I'd love it. Lazy twats where I live park there instead of in allocated spaces at the back of their houses
Thracian Posted 18 April 2016 Posted 18 April 2016 More war on the cash-creating motorist. Social manipulators want people to walk? I'll walk any politician into the ground and then some. I don't park on pavements but this sort of officious bullying doesn't impress me at all. I'd just move whatever custom I might be taking to a place elsewhere, or not bother at all.
Thracian Posted 18 April 2016 Posted 18 April 2016 Money money money Exactly....and more punishing the creators of money. It's time motorists formed their own pressure group - and I mean full on pressure group and started having the country in a manner that shows some appreciation for their contribution. Not that it will happen. We Brits have no idea how to really link together for our own ends and to put real pressure on the people who have targetted motorists as the enemy for far too long.
DANGEROUS TIGER Posted 19 April 2016 Posted 19 April 2016 100% in favour, and long overdue. Car owners who park across pavements don't give a flying feck about pedestrians who have to walk on the road. Pedestrians are put in danger. It's not funny that people are forced to push prams and wheelchairs into the road. It is extremely dangerous for them, and only last week an elderly lady on a mobility scooter, was struck and killed by a van, after being forced to go into the road, as the result of a car parked across the pavement. PAVEMENTS - for pedestrians. ROADS - for vehicle users. Its not bloody rocket science' How would motorists like pedestrians standing in the road, and forcing traffic to go round the?. It's the same thing.
Samilktray Posted 19 April 2016 Posted 19 April 2016 If you're pushing a pram you should be checking before crossing a road regardless of what's parked and where, not pushing it into the road.
sphericalfox Posted 19 April 2016 Posted 19 April 2016 Looks like Leeds will turn into Amsterdam then. The roads so narrow that it's park on the path or block the road especially on residential streets. Another absolute nonsense from a government bereft of actual real policy or ideas.
The Blur Posted 19 April 2016 Posted 19 April 2016 I never knew organisations for guide dogs for blind people have a such insight into workings of our traffic system in UK. I would have thought working with AA or other similar motorist organisations would be far more beneficial. But hey, I am sure even blind people who cannot see roads have more common sense about parking than the bloody government.
Bellend Sebastian Posted 19 April 2016 Posted 19 April 2016 I never knew organisations for guide dogs for blind people have a such insight into workings of our traffic system in UK. I would have thought working with AA or other similar motorist organisations would be far more beneficial. But hey, I am sure even blind people who cannot see roads have more common sense about parking than the bloody government. I think all they want to do is be able to walk along the pavement
The Blur Posted 19 April 2016 Posted 19 April 2016 I think all they want to do is be able to walk along the pavement I know, it was a bit of a tongue in humour post but I do still find it bit strange that the government is not working with any motorist organisation as changes will affect drivers more than visually impaired people.
notnow john Posted 19 April 2016 Posted 19 April 2016 Long overdue, I'm fed up having to break off wing mirrors to be able to walk down the street!
AyewJoking Posted 20 April 2016 Posted 20 April 2016 Long overdue, I'm fed up having to break wind to be able to walk down the street!
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