"Didn't do anything wrong", They Said 🤦‍♂️ 🤷‍♂️

[@stevegray1308]

I use a wheelchair or mobility scooter. Depending on the width of pavement it can be extremely awkward for me. Getting onto the road is not only dangerous it can be difficult off a kerb.

[@nonaknight9491]

The PIPs couldn’t care less. (Pig Ignorant People)

[@NicolaHenry-l7n]

In case anyone is thinking of mentioning guide dogs, let’s please remember that the operative word here is “dog”. Guide dogs are trained to keep their owners safe, ie on the pavement. They can steer their owner around lamp posts, wheelie bins and other street clutter but when a car is parked on the pavement they are forced to stop and wait for the owner to make a decision. For this reason, and all the other reasons mentioned in this video, pavement parking is not ok! Thank you for highlighting this issue.

[@thomascarroll9556]

Yes, guide dogs are not trained to tell their owner when it’s safe to cross, only to stop them when it is not safe.

[@stephen579]

I was involved in an incident where I was walking along a footpath and tried to squeeze between a wall and a car parked on the footpath, my coat caught on the wing mirror which broke from the door and was left hanging by a wire, the owner of the vehicle ran after me shouting about his damaged car, I insisted that he called the police as there had been an accident between his vehicle and me and that I wanted to claim from his insurance, Despite his shouting, no police officer was called so I reported the matter at my local police station and gave them the vehicle reg number, I never heard any more about the matter.

[@sorrysirmygunisoneba]

That’s a very strong coat or a weak door mirror 🧐

[@alunjones3860]

@@sorrysirmygunisoneba Assuming he didn't deliberately damage it, heck I can understand the frustration, but would never condone vandalism, it's more likely the wing mirror had already been weakened by a previous collision.

[@juliemarriott7395]

Thanks for highlighting this issue. My sons a wheelchair user and it is a nightmare pushing him around the streets in some areas, with obstacles like vehicles and A boards on the pavement.

[@jazztheglass6139]

It's classed as obstructing the King's Highway, a civil offense heard at magistrates Court. There must be enough space for 2 child carriages to pass travelling in opposing directions unimpeded I was a street trader in the 90's got fined for it about 5 times.

[@AndyPerry1972]

@@jazztheglass6139 To be fair, I would like to see that rule as our pavements aren't even wide enough to allow that without anything parked on them. Agree with the main point completely but 2 x 2 child carriages does seem excessive

[@jazztheglass6139]

@@AndyPerry1972 it was explained to me as 2 child carriages aka prams. Or 2 wheelchairs, or weirdly 2 beer barrels. The highway was from the private property on one side to the other. The police were very hot on it, it was a blanket fine, no way to argue out of it, trading without a licence, and obstructing the highway, £50 fine for each. If you were a repeat offender the fines escalated. I was in a magistrates in the West end waiting for my case. The guy before me was doing the fake perfume at Oxford circus, he got fined £1,000. That was very big money in 1992

[@douglassmith215]

I have a pet hate - I’m glad you’ve done this. People parked across pavements near kids playgrounds and you then have to push your buggy out into the road… ThIS IS DANGEROUS!!!!

[@fanfeck2844]

Just drag the buggy along its door

[@truth.speaker]

I wouldn't park that way, but how do you leave the house to go to the park if you're unable to cross a road? Perhaps it's a mere inconvenience to you but if there's limited space it's an inconvenience to either hundreds of drivers or a couple of people pushing prams. Or do you sincerely believe it is a real danger for you to cross the road? If that's the case, why leave the house? You could be hurt

[@lancethrust9488]

LOL THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON SINCE THE INCEPTION OF THE CAR SINCE THE 50S IN UK BECAUSE OF NARROW ROADS IF IT WAS A PROBLEM IT WOULD OF BEEN ADDRESSED IN THE 70S , BUT IT HASNT BECAUSE ITS NOT A REAL PROBLEM JUST PROPAGANDA TO BRING MORE REVENUE FOR THE TAX MAN AND MAKING OWNING A CAR MORE DIFFICULT FOR THE WAR ON CAR PRIVATE OWNERSHIP FOR THE MARKISTS SECRET STATE TRANSPORT THERE PLANNING

[@annstar4306]

So so true , I am not a mum but it is so annoying to hear that this happens ! 😡❤️

[@chappy2121]

​@truth.speaker they could park elsewhere and walk abit further? That's the problem these days people won't inconvenience themselves but many others it's OK

[@CaptaIn_NAM1]

This is something i have every time i go out on my disabled scooter. I was forced onto oncoming traffic because they blocked the path and i nearly got hit by a bus. It was really scary and the person said they were not moving the car because they lived opposite.I think this is serious and it needs to be addressed. thanks for the video

[@FreePizza007]

Electric scooter? I thought they were illegal, especially on pavements.

[@CaptaIn_NAM1]

@@FreePizza007 4 wheeled Disabled scooter. I have now corrected the name. cheers

[@sonny2593]

I'm an ambulatory wheelchair user and when i come across this I have to get up, push my wheelchair onto the road and walk it to a place i can actually sit back down. The days when i need to use the wheelchair are the days where walking any distance causes intense pain. I cant stand people who park on the pavement.

[@nonaknight9491]

@Sonny2593 . There may come a time when you cannot walk at all and then then like my past husband it gets totally impossible to continue living normally. I’m still fighting causes… Incidentally when walking alongside of my husband a car nearly ran him over whilst in his electric chair. Luckily I clouted the car drivers bonnet with my walking stick in time👀 (US bonnet = hood)

[@emmahowells8334]

As a wheelchair user I totally agree with you, it's disgusting.

[@maryanne2224]

Over the years I have pushed a double baby buggy, and at work, wheelchairs. I cannot stand to see parking on pavements. Its not just inconvenient, but dangerous.

[@sonny2593]

The worst though is the people working for just eat and deliveroo who park in the disabled spots.

[@taras6806]

@@sonny2593 Really good point. ANYBODY who parks in a disabled spot should face a penalty which suffices to serve as a warning to others, IMHO.

[@davidwitham5588]

One of the problems is a lack of enforcement.

[@beaulieuc8910]

Where I am people complained so much about some motorists from a garage parking on pavements and the motorists kept ignoring it. So some got towed away as no tax and MOT and then after 2 years the parish council got some money to put loads of bollards along. And the SE water driveway, they used to park on that and then the SE water used to put bollards. Now they have to park in the garage or take the bus to work. Complaining about parking on pavement hotspots can work sometimes as it did in my case

[@SiCrewe]

Very true. I once happened upon a cop car parked outside the pedestrianised close where I live. I took the opportunity to point out my neighbour's car, which she routinely drives over the kerb, between bollards and through a paved common area to park right outside her house. Absolutely no interest at all.

[@nonaknight9491]

Modern Police just turn a blind eye

[@ditch3827]

A better way would be either bollards or higher kerb.

[@dancingdede3592]

The police are the worst for parking where they shouldn’t.

[@BerkeleyTowers]

Just the fact you have to explain this is the saddest bit of all.

[@beaulieuc8910]

Agreed ,and it is frustraiting they say Oh we will only be hear for a few minutes.. and actually they are ages

[@nonaknight9491]

@@beaulieuc8910 they shouldn’t be there at all🤬

[@FrostInFreezer]

Agreed.

[@kcallow]

What is even worse is that these people who park wrongly do not think that they are.

[@taras6806]

I'm not sure they actually 'think' at all.

[@kevkfz5226]

@@taras6806 its in a lot of drivers system, They will do it even if there is space in the road if they parked fully in the road.

[@taras6806]

@@kevkfz5226 Then they need a load of hefty fines to rewire their 'systems'...

[@thehealeruk]

Indeed. Many seem to think that simply putting their 'hazards' on allows them to park wherever they like.

[@spotononspot4187]

Should be made to retake their driving test!

[@suebristow5194]

Glad to see this video. Can't believe people cannot see the problems. I really do despair of some people's thought processes

[@jocooke2828]

Oh I’m so with you on this one, I hate to see cars parked on pavements. I saw a guy with a pram in one hand and a small child in the other having to go on to the road to get around a big Jeep parked on the pavement. It’s typical of what’s wrong with everyone today, just selfish.

[@christinaconnolly6822]

I'm in Coventry trying very hard with a group to make this a priority. It's about sharing the pavements which allows pedestrians space to move on pavements. Living Streets have been campaigning for this for years. In fact it's "remove the cutter off the streets" this week. Very well timed video.

[@nonaknight9491]

That photo White vehicle just proves what a hazard these selfish drivers cause to the path users.

[@mda5003]

And being adjacent to the double yellow lines this is an offence unless he is loading/unloading.

[@kelvinlambert4249]

Also blocking visibility as there is a side junction there with a triangular Give Way sign.

[@grahamnash9794]

Just highlights the horrible selfish, inconsiderate nature of so many people.

[@RAFchurchlawford4469]

Exactly, so don't hide their number plates!

[@jimcazador6057]

Not always, in many cases there is no choice but too park on pavements otherwise it would be obstructing the highway.

[@AndyPerry1972]

@secondchance6603 Not so easy when you're in a wheelchair

[@avrohalt9133]

Thank you for highlighting this. I am a full-time wheelchair user and have to face this issue every time I go out. Even on a short journey, I have to go onto the road several times to get past cars parked on the pavement. It is very dangerous. Often there is not a ramped curb nearby which means you have to backtrack your route to find one, then you have to travel on the road, sometimes in excess of a hundred yards or more to find another ramped curb to get back onto the pavement. When I am on the road, motorist sound their horns at me shout and curse me. On one occasion, a police officer told me off for using the busy main road. He did not care about the parked car. His answer was to take a different route, which was over a mile longer and unsuitable for a wheelchair. I was told by him to take a taxi. The situation is getting worse. If I complain to the driver nearly every time I am met with abuse and on a one of occasion I was slapped in the face, I have spat on; I have been pushed into a hedge and am regularly threatened and abused. Only last month I was told that I should be put down like a crippled dog. I have photographed offenders’ cars and sent them to the police and nothing gets done about it. They just continue to park on the path. It is getting so much of a problem. I now am avoiding going out for this very reason. Do not think my issues with people parking on the path are just around where I live. It is a problem all over the country.

[@josiebridle1947]

As a pedestrian, vehicles parking on pavements are a bugbear of mine. I've seen cars completely blocking the pavements. I once tried to contact the police about it, they told me to contact the County Council's parking enforcement team. The council told me it was a police matter. I've seen cars driving along the pavement to park outside a supermarket, as they didn't want to use the shop's car park. Unless parking on pavements is banned throughout the country, I can't see things improving.

[@chappy2121]

That's where we've dropped the ball regarding car ownership. Ownership should have had a prerequisite that you could park your vehicle somewhere that doesn't inconvenience others

[@DrJams]

​@@chappy2121​​No. Because it's not an issue everywhere. Not everyone lives in a city centre.

[@MultiMidden]

@@chappy2121 Or do what Japan does - no proof of dedicated parking space, no car

[@chappy2121]

@DrJams I live in an old market town with narrow and some cobbled streets. Some roads are impassable because selfish twats dump their cars on junctions, pavements, double park, etc. There is no chance of ambulance or fire engines down some roads either. I have 3 vehicles, all of which are on my drive and inconvenience nobody. I would never dream of having a car if I had to park it on the road. Car parks and spaces on drives are for cars.

[@glennismitchell2733]

​@@chappy2121 I live in an area where the pavement has been widened to allow cars to park on it, drivers park in the middle of the pavement blocking both sides of the pavement for me and my walker (rollator). This wouldn't be too bad but most of the properties have driveways which they don't use.

[@stuinNorway]

Regardless of the space between car and wall in that first example, double yellow lines extend to the edge of the carriageway, which includes the pavement.

[@G4WYZ]

Most of the photographs shown, there are double yellow lines. No parking applies to the pavement and up to the wall of the property be it garden or house wall.

[@barrieshepherd7694]

@@G4WYZ I think that the rule is up to the "boundary" of the property - not all properties have garden walls or fences at their boundary and the council don't have that level of control over private property. As an example a row of shops near me have 8 foot or so of private land land between the edge of the pavement and their external walls. The Parking zealots constantly try to ticket the owners (and shoppers) who park on that land. As there are drop curbs to access the land no offence is committed parking there but I wonder how many people "not in the know" end up paying the Parking Fine?

[@dennissimmonds1354]

You have hit upon my most annoying subjects. I have regularly tried to report stuff like this but could never get anything done about it

[@G4WYZ]

Since parking was decriminalised, the Police won't do anything about it, unless they are forced. I complained to the chief exec of a council in Lancashire, he got onto the chief constable and the local police responded.

[@nonaknight9491]

@@G4WYZYou were luck as around my Midlands town they do nothing about this disgusting practice

[@tigertony2716]

Some people are just plain selfish and care only about themselves - when they park on a narrow pavement they couldn't care less that a person in a wheelchair or mobility scooter can't get past.

[@roberthilsdon3900]

I agree about parking on pavements, it is a real problem if you are partially sighted. One extra problem not highlighted by this is not only blocking the route forward, so you have to go into the road, which has happened to me. But also extruding objects such as wing mirrors, which I have hit a few times, and front wheels at an angle. Did not see and fell over. Have had extruding objects on the roof, which are easy for me to see but requires careful consideration.

[@paulqueripel3493]

Lime bikes in London seem to be parked blocking the pavement for wheelchairs about a quarter of the time. Sometimes totally blocking it, parked completely across it.

[@keveb4724]

My partner is a wheelchair user. So many times I had to either push the chair on the road, or take a longer route to avoid the pavement parking

[@nonaknight9491]

My Husband was a wheelchair user for 59 yrs and Oh the experiences I could tell you👀. Something are a bit better but MANNERS are worse. No Common Sense either❗️

[@lancethrust9488]

LOL WHY WERNT THIS ADDRESSED IN THE 70S WHY WOULD IT TAKE TILL 2023 TO SAY ITS A PROBLEM , BECAUSE ITS NOT YOU NOT WHAT A REAL PROBLEM IS WHEN EMERGENCY SERVICES ARE STUCK IN ROAD IF CARS PARK FULLY IN UKS TINY ROADS THIS WILL CAUSE THE LIVES OF THOUSANDS PER YEAR

[@robertburrows6612]

If I obstruct the road with my car it will get removed and I will pay various penalties, it should apply for car that obstruct the pavements

[@truth.speaker]

In my view, 99% of those who complain simply refuse to see it from a driver's perspective. They have a mild inconvenience and they feel entitled to have 0 obstructions in their way, even if the net result is to block or narrow the road to hundreds of drivers. This is a mindset of selfishness. When i was a cyclist, I appreciated drivers who presented a smaller obstruction in the road by parking half on the pavement. It's like people ignore that there are hundreds of cars travelling down each road in a day and they just think "I'm inconvenienced so I must be in the right"

[@jo_clarke1960]

​@@truth.speakerEver had to use a wheelchair or push a buggy, let alone a double one? Drivers parking on pavements or blocking access should be towed, Council's should have better planning rules for new developments and more parking needs to be provided in high use areas.

[@truth.speaker]

@@jo_clarke1960 is this anything more than a mere inconvenience?

[@arstulex]

@@truth.speaker To preface this, I'm an avid driver myself. The problem here is that you are advocating for inconveniencing others in order to avoid an inconvenience yourself. I'm not sure how you can have the audacity to accuse others of being selfish when what you're suggesting is basically the same. _"they feel entitled to have 0 obstructions in their way"_ That's because they are entitled to that. The pavement is literally an area that is designated to pedestrians. I guarantee you would be annoyed if pedestrians decided to encroach on your designated area by walking down the middle of it and slowing traffic down to a crawl. _"even if the net result is to block or narrow the road to hundreds of drivers"_ As BBB said here... *too bad.* If parking in an ideal place would cause the road to narrow then the answer is to park somewhere else. Does that mean you don't get to park right next to your house/destination? Yes, but that is a "mild inconvenience" which you will have to face. The answer is _not_ to park on the pavement and selfishly pass your inconvenience on to others so that you can park in your ideal spot. Again, this is coming from somebody who is primarily a driver.

[@truth.speaker]

@@arstulex that's your opinion You are saying hundreds of people should be inconvenienced so a small number of people don't have to cross the street on rare occasion You're entitled to that opinion.

[@isabheipyu9849]

Thank you for highlighting these issues. Its mindboggling to think that people do not know or think not to impede others. Some ppl just dont care and in addition to education, strict law enforcement is required (eg. we dont see this in countries like Singapore)...

[@violetblue13]

Guy In the wheelchair should make a bloody good attempt at getting through. If the car gets damaged then oh dear…

[@edeledeledel5490]

In fact, sue the owner for the scratch on your wheelchair, and report him for careless driving. From the Warwickshire police site: "What is classed as careless driving? If a person drives any vehicle powered by an engine on a road or other public place, such as car parks without due care and attention, or without reasonable consideration for other persons using the road or place, they are guilty of an offence." I would say driving onto the pavement and partially or fully blocking it falls under "without reasonable consideration for other persons using the road or place". And driving onto the pavement is the "moving offence", if one is asked for.

[@anuvabastidanakist2437]

@violetblue13 and then hope car owner is not a tbig and beats the person male or female to a pulp for hurting there car ( I don't drive cars and if I did the camber if the riad is so high I would need a series 1 ,2 or land rover to park on&off kerb) also I had a car mount the pavement in front if me causing me to jump out of way because the driver saw a car getting to close to him and didn't mind hitting me as long as his car was hit from behind

[@edeledeledel5490]

@@anuvabastidanakist2437 My wife, 5' 3", used to push our pram past cars parked on the pavement, even at risk of scratching them. She did have one owner, who happened to be near, say "careful with my car, And she replied "Don't park on the pavement, then. I'm not wheeling my son into the road and risking his life because you want to park your car on the pavement, and if your car scratches my coachbuilt expensive pram, then I will be suing for for its repair, and I will win". He shut up.

[@anuvabastidanakist2437]

@@edeledeledel5490 So what your saying is your wife didn't meet the wrong person if your are stuck in a wheel chair all the idiots need to do is push you over then you are fucked

[@fianorian]

As a pedestrian I have had several 'intense' conversations with drivers who do this, most of which ended up with the driver hurling abuse, and me walking away in despair. Now I just shake my head and find a way around it. I have no wheelchair or pushchair, so I do have that option. However, for many years I did have a friend who used a wheelchair, and travelling with her gave me a deeper appreciation of how dangerous parking on the pavement is. It's not as though wheelchair users can just go into the road, either. They require a dropped kerb to get back onto the footpath, and these can be few and far between on many roads, resulting in them having to bowl great distances, through traffic, before they can once again reach safety.

[@CaroMary07]

I use a mobility scooter and have had exactly this issue, and then in addition I have been verbally abused when I have been forced onto the road. On one occasion I couldn't get past a van but couldn't get off the path due to high kerbs, and in tryng to get past I damaged the wing mirror, which I then reported to Surrey Police myself, who assured me that they would NOT take any action against me as the van owner was the one at fult. still incredibly stressful, so I rarey go out on my own now

[@NICKYVTEC]

Someone near me does this, they park squarely covering the entirety of the width of the pavement…the devil in me wants to walk over the top of it.

[@johnnyshinnichi1785]

You're right to have those pet hates. I've got loads of them and people say I'm a moaner, but I don't care. The world is going to pot and if people like us don't moan it's just going to get worse.

[@thehealeruk]

Where I live, the paving stones are cracked and uneven because people park their cars and vans half on the road, half on the pavement, because there are double yellow lines on the busy main road. Every couple of years the council repairs these flagstones, because of the threat they pose to pedestrians who might sue the local authority for any trip or fall sustained on the uneven paving. The cost of repairs is of course passed on to the council taxpayer, in the form of ever-increasing council tax. And this in spite of the proximity of a nearby free car park.

[@markhowards420]

Our council removed the majority of the flags in the town and replaced them with tarmac to avoid the repair costs. Even where cars didn't park.

[@TheGiff7]

The parking restrictions identified by yellow lines still apply with the presence of pavement.

[@treesart6914]

You are absolutely right. I have a friend who always uses a mobility scooter because he can walk no more than a few steps at a time, and it's really depressing how he always has a struggle to go places. Being handicapped is depressing in itself, but then to also not be able to go places without having to fend for yourself all the time is a real downer.

[@eileenball3336]

Parking on the pavements is definitely not ok.

[@twig3288]

If it’s causing an obstruction I agree, but where there is no obstruction I don’t see a problem.

[@taras6806]

@@twig3288 How can parking on the pavement NOT be an obstruction (which word includes 'potential' as well as 'actual')?

[@XXLaffinGravyXX]

@@taras6806 Because when you have the cognitive rationale and intelligence of a TWIG that's why.

[@SashaAlonso_PricklyElder]

@@twig3288it’s not ok because at some point it can seriously affect some ppl. Parents with young children &/or pushchairs & even more so disabled ppl. Nearly got run over as I had to walk on the road with a blind area & ended up dislocating my knee, shoulder & wrist as I couldn’t move away from the hurtling car in the road due to the fact I use crutches (sometimes a mobility scooter/electric wheelchair). It’s my biggest pet peeve. You also (sometimes) have to stay on road well past obstruction when in mobility scooter or wheelchair as u can only get on pavement where there is a dropped curve. I’ve even had to sit in my wheelchair waiting for over an hour as it was too dangerous getting onto the road due to it being narrow single lane road with massive blind spots

[@twig3288]

@@taras6806 there’s a pavement on my local high st which is almost 30ft wide with very little pedestrian use. The road next to it is quite narrow and vehicles parking on the road mean that it creates a bottleneck. So parking on the pavement affects no one, but on the road it creates an obstruction. This is an instance of rules for the sake of rules, which achieves no useful purpose.

[@cathwhhite]

I totally agree with you. I have a mobility scooter and have to plan my routes so I can cross roads at a dropped pavement. If my route is blocked by a car parked on the pavement, I can't just drop down onto the road (however unsafely) because my vehicle is not able to manage kerbs. I would have to retrace my steps and plot another route or more likely give up and go home! Why do some feel so entitled that their needs are more important than others? I might be generous and suggest that they are just not thinking, but, if so, then they could risk being just called stupid.

[@bettygarbutt9105]

Had to do this very thing a few weeks ago. Could not get past, nor off pavement as too high so ended up having to go back home. Pavements are not car parks! One point re van parked across tram lines. Is it possible this is not "parked" at all. There is another vehicle immediately in front with markings, so possibly an emergency vehicle or police car, traffic jam ??

[@edeledeledel5490]

Take a video on your phone; and perhaps ring the police every time it happens. From the Warwickshire police site: "What is classed as careless driving? If a person drives any vehicle powered by an engine on a road or other public place, such as car parks without due care and attention, or without reasonable consideration for other persons using the road or place, they are guilty of an offence." I would say driving onto the pavement and partially or fully blocking it falls under "without reasonable consideration for other persons using the road or place". And driving onto the pavement is the "moving offence", if one is asked for. And if police try to palm you off, tell them you will have to try telling the local newspaper or local radio; they absolutely love a good campaign, and it might, just might provoke the cops into action.

[@LadyLocket]

Most people roll their eyes when you point out not leaving enough space for wheelchairs because they see it as such a small annoying percentage of people that have needs different from the ‘the rest of us’. They are also usually the first to get mad when they have to risk constantly going into the road with their newborn's pram or hear their Grandparents complain about the ‘one annoying car’ on their street that makes walking unsafe for them.

[@maryl8753]

Wonder if they vocally support other " inclusion" or is it just disabled who should not be included in society?

[@sonbaerh]

I have put in numerous complaints to Sheffield city council regarding parting on pavements . Every time I am told that they can do what they want as it isn't illegal . Surprisingly i checked one of the reg numbers and it wasn't taxed . They still aren't bothered

[@edeledeledel5490]

Point out to them, and the local police, that from the Warwickshire police site: "What is classed as careless driving? If a person drives any vehicle powered by an engine on a road or other public place, such as car parks without due care and attention, or without reasonable consideration for other persons using the road or place, they are guilty of an offence." I would say driving onto the pavement and partially or fully blocking it falls under "without reasonable consideration for other persons using the road or place". And driving onto the pavement is the "moving offence", if one is asked for. Just keep on at them, with video submissions from your phone. And escalate to the Police Chief, and or Police Commissioner. Don't be palmed off by them saying the Council should deal with it. Careless driving is not anything to do with the Council.

[@All-the-gear-no-idea-uk]

What gets me is modern day planning they know people. they got more cars nowadays ever had, but they still insist in building these Estates with very little parking consideration in mind, so I think the planning laws need to be lock it as well.

[@juliananderson630]

I couldn't agree more. The roads where I live ( a 3 year old estate) are so narrow that people have little option but to park on the pavement, if they didn't then the roads would soon be impassable. The developers are aware of the number of cars per household but supply insufficient room because the more houses the more profit. I am 100% against parking on the pavement and refuse to do so but, as you say, they should change planning laws accordingly.

[@th5841]

But then they should also charge for the parking. In my neighbourhood streets here used to have free parking, and there were many cars parked here. Then they stopped the free parking. Now there are hardly any cars parked in the streets, anymore.

[@beaulieuc8910]

@@th5841 They had planned to do that in my village, but unfortunately a lot of motorists in the residential house complained so we will have a parking problem with so many parking all over the place. It would be much better if we had permits

[@th5841]

@@juliananderson630 Then regulation laws needs to be changed, demanding some minimum parking on each estate. If not, plus street parking or on pavement, is free or without consequenced, there will be no changes.

[@th5841]

@@beaulieuc8910 I live in Oslo with very good public transit. That means that most households only need one car or no cars. That reduced the parking pressure by a lot.

[@Cdr_Mansfield_Cumming]

I tend not to see the same car parked on a pavement when I was in my wheelchair! Once better, I remembered the same places, revisited them in my police uniform and books of Fixed Penalty Notice’s!

[@optimisticgal]

You mention VIP! Great video thanks. It is difficult to manoeuvre any of these if you use a normal walking stick too!

[@nonaknight9491]

I find the old fashioned Cabbage Walking stick the best as the are stronger 😀

[@Sidistic_Atheist]

The local councils, should charge these offenders. The cost of replacing broken flagstones etc.. Being devoid of "common sense" is not a defence. ha ha

[@folklorestuff1743]

Apparently, what is right or wrong is no longer being taught as even basic human behaviour. Everything and anything goes.

[@thomasherrin6798]

The rules are either too slack or not implemented, however people maybe should take the law into their own hands (Within reason) when people are stopping you going about your business, legal consideration to that would make it less likely for it to happen as people could take direct action by applying hard to remove stickers (Blocking the pavement for disabled user etc.) and the like, also just stop oil should be allowed to be physically removed by Joe Public from blocking the road. Going about your business safely is a big deal in civilised society protesters can protest but not hinder your progress!?!

[@folklorestuff1743]

@@thomasherrin6798 It should just be plain common sense…….oh, wait a minute, what am I saying….?

[@Rhyd]

People are selfish, they think they have a “right” to a car and to park it where is convenient but do not consider it a right for less able people to travel safely.

[@wirdy1]

If I were on a 4mph limited (pavement-only) mobility scooter user I'd have no issue scraping the whole side of a blocking vehicle if it was the only way to get past without going into the road. In fact, I'd take a certain glee in doing so.

[@brenda1378]

Have done exactly that many times.

[@beaulieuc8910]

Another thing I hate is motorists parking in bus lanes to go to the shops. They are too lazy to use the free car park. We have managed to get the council to put up a disabled parking outside the shop soon, so this will be fun to watch

[@Orothrim]

These would absolutely result in a fail on a drivers license test. It bothers me how little of the principles taught in lessons actually remain intact outside of the tests.

[@lancethrust9488]

LOL THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON SINCE THE INCEPTION OF THE CAR SINCE THE 50S IN UK BECAUSE OF NARROW ROADS IF IT WAS A PROBLEM IT WOULD OF BEEN ADDRESSED IN THE 70S , BUT IT HASNT BECAUSE ITS NOT A REAL PROBLEM JUST PROPAGANDA TO BRING MORE REVENUE FOR THE TAX MAN AND MAKING OWNING A CAR MORE DIFFICULT FOR THE WAR ON CAR PRIVATE OWNERSHIP FOR THE MARKISTS SECRET STATE TRANSPORT THERE PLANNING

[@jamingaming9251]

I think a lot of drivers get their license from Kellogg's.

[@WansbeckBikecam]

Where I work there is a driving instructor who picks up his pupil from a nearby KIA dealership. When I go past him in the morning the instructor has parked the car half on the pavement and half blocking a cycleway. A fine example I don't think. One of these days I'm going to stop and knock on his window and tell him his driving hasn't reached the required standard on this occasion. Go back to school. Muppet.

[@glennismitchell2733]

​@@jamingaming9251I was told by a driver once that you learn to pass you test. You really learn to drive properly once you have got your license.

[@jamingaming9251]

@@glennismitchell2733 well you learn to handle the vehicle better,some people are just bad, inconsiderate drivers.

[@yehuditcollins6783]

I got rid of my mobility scooter. It isn't just that you are forced into the road, it's you can't get down the kerb, so forced to back up and find a ramp. Likewise for wheelchairs, wheeled scooters and pushchairs.

[@PlanetZhooZhoo]

Thank you for raising awareness for disabled people. As a user of wheeled mobility equipment, vehicles like these parking on footpaths is not just a pet hate it's a real safety concern. But who's going to police it? Parking on highways enforcement has just been transferred from the local council to the county council in my area and since then I haven't seen a parking warden.

[@davidtruman4590]

Thank you for raising this issue. I think there's a broader point to be considered. It is this: to what extent if the public highway for all of members of the public and not just motorists? There is a general perception, where I live in Cheshire, that it is only for the latter, including amongst members of Cheshire Constabulary. As an able-bodied pedestrian who does not drive, i frequently have to sidle when I am walking on a pavement, because it is now the norm in Cheshire for drivers to park on pavements. I watched with interest your previous video about a cyclist who recklessly collided with several accompanied pedestrians who were crossing the road. At one notorious 'T' junction near to where I live, there is a pelican crossing where there is s sign warning motorists not to make U turns while turning right. If they do so, they cross the pelican crossing while it is green for pedestrians. However, this happens all too frequently, usually when people are in the middle of the road. There is a police surveillance camera at this junction, but evidently it is not used to monitor the hazard, or any offences. On one occasion, I reported a near miss I had experienced at this junction to a traffic police officer who was parked nearby. His response was to tell me to write to the Chief Constable. If the law is not enforced it is no law at all.

[@lizbird9628]

In some areas it has been necessary to partially-park on the pavement (mainly to not obstruct flow of traffic. However, being a parent (who has used various modes of childs pushvhairs including specialised for my child with ASD, and also having a disabled mother who is confined to a motorised wheel chair, I am very aware of ensuring how and where I park is considerate and within the law. Having blue badges for myself, my mother, and my child does not mean I can just "park anywhere". 🤦‍♀️ Without due care and attention !!! Parking is part of driving 🤷‍♀️ Don't block the road or the padestrians rights of way ... its actually quite simple and basic morals. NO ENTITLEMENT 😤

[@ditch3827]

"In some areas it has been necessary to partially-park on the pavement" - Err No. You can park somewhere else.

[@stephengraham1153]

@@ditch3827 Agreed. These people need to ask themselves if the inconvenience of walking and extra 50 or 100 yards is worth someone else's injury or death.

[@TarmanYoloSwag]

@@stephengraham1153 A large number of drivers can't wait 5 seconds while I'm passing ilegally parked cars in the cyclelane

[@philwww800]

NOT NECESSARY PARK ELSEWHERE

[@ukcarver]

Totally agree. They should not park on the pavement

[@juliehowman3912]

As someone using a wheelchair, my pet peeve is individuals who park on dropped curbs. I’ve even had people tell me to just go along to the next one, which oftentimes is some distance out of the way. Outside of my home I have double yellow lines, and notices disabled access required at all times, and still ignorant bigots park blocking it. Some drivers simply do not care. Once, my disabled access vehicle had to stop in the road because two people had parked half on the curb and half on the yellow line’s partially blocking the dropped curbs. Even having conversed with a regular offender, and explaining the situation has been to no avail. The Highway Code says double yellow lines means no stopping in that area, but some drivers and I want to state they are in the minority, simply do not care.

[@cdrone4066]

They do it in Paris also, I’m from the US and I was shocked when a car pulled up in front of me on the sidewalk and parked and walked away.

[@pooweetiger1]

my dad is a enforcement officer for a London borough council (hounslow) any car parked on the pavement unless SICNPOSTED, you CAN NOT park on the pavement

[@beaulieuc8910]

Thank your dad for me, I often thank then when I see them.

[@ElliottRodgers]

Welcome to my life as wheelchair user. You park on pavement or by dropped kerb is my independence gone. I don't go out or go anywhere.

[@peterbrown6224]

I am very sorry to hear that. A friend of mine uses a wheelchair and encounters similar problems I've seen it - along with using the pavement as an open sewer, etc. These vehicles should be crushed. I hope that you can gain some mobility by other means - you are entitled to a social life.

[@wirdy1]

Please feel free to scratch every single vehicle as you squeeze past.

[@taras6806]

@@phillipkershaw3855 Not so, not at all. But unless we have the car keys we can't do anything....

[@mikewade777]

A nearby Tesco superstore has ample parking space, but the Shared path and service road that lead to it, the double yellow dropped kerb and raised crossing are often parked on as nothing is ever enforced.

[@jasonuren3479]

Highway Code Rule 243 *DO NOT* stop or park: ...... where the kerb has been lowered to help wheelchair users and powered mobility vehicles.

[@josephfredbill]

I live in a modest house in a typical residential area where there are houses both sodes of the road. Most neighbours have two or three cars and each house has off-road space just for one. The road is too narrow for cars to be parked both sides and still allow vehicle passage. I have one car and park off-road. Most neighbours park partly on the pavement and passage with wheelchair or children’s pushchair would be impossible. I deplore the practice and have considered printing off a leaflet and putting it through everyone’s doors - but that will just create bad social relations between neighbours and myself. There is no solution, there just isnt space for them all to park. I have raised it with the local council but they dont take it seriously. What can I do - its like living in a car park.

[@josephfredbill]

In fact its so bad in the evenings that it would be impossible to walk along accompanied by children and even for some adults to walk along.

[@brenda1378]

Carry on you're way if at all possible, adding lovely grooves to the cars with any pram, pushchair or wheelchair etc. POLICE one of the biggest culprits.

[@stephengraham1153]

The fitter amongst us could just try walking straight over the car, bonnet, roof and boot! Not sure if that is legal though.

[@lancethrust9488]

MUCH WORSE FROM A CAR , IF YOU MARKISTS THINK CARS CAN FULLY PARK ON ROAD IN A COUNTRY WITH TINY ROADS IT WILL CAUSE CHAOS LIKE WHEN THE LEFTISTS FROM THE ENVIOROMENT IN GHOSTBUSTERS WHO JUST WANTED TO THE PULL THE LEAVER TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS AGAINST ALL ADVICE , PARKING ON THE ROAD FULLY WILL CAUSE AN ZOMBIE apocalypse IT WILL CAUSE 1000S OF LIVES LOST PER YEAR DUE TO EMERGENCY SERVICE CANT PASS THROUGH IN ROADS , ROAD RAGE WILL SKY ROCKET , STUCK CARS HONKING HORNS LATE AT NIGHT , FIGHTS , PROBLEM WITH THESE LEFTIST MARKISTS SHEEPLE THEY FAIL TO SEE THE RIPPLE EFFECT , AND THIS RIPPLE EFFECT WILL BE BAD

[@SirZerg]

Its one of things that I find annoying too. We give over so much road space to cars yet there is always someone wanting more. Especially those who park with 2 weels on the pavement and the rest on road blocking both.

[@taras6806]

I couldn't agree more; and I like your diversions from the legally wrong to the morally wrong and the intersection between the two. Disrespect towards others is in some fields outlawed and I am not generally in favour of expansion of law but in relation to some of such behaviour I absolutely am. Those 'others' don't need to be known, they are foreseeable and as you say those mobility vehicles/wheelchairs are foremost in my mind. Less so people with buggies and another of my 'pet' hates is women (invariably women) walking in 2s or 3s on the pavement, invariably slowly, blocking the passage of others.

[@nonaknight9491]

There’s a load of PIPs nowadays Pig Ignorant People who couldn’t care less.

[@lynndillerstone2616]

Just say " excuse me " LOUDLY !!!

[@taras6806]

@@lynndillerstone2616 Oh, I've done the polite stuff, these days I just go into the road, look back at them with disdain (unnoticed I'm sure) and hope I don't get run down by one of those damned escooters.

[@sapereaude391]

Dear BlackBeltBarrister, I was born in 1960 and the house I grew up in was built in the same year. As a kid, I remember that only about half the house owners in the street had cars and all the cars were parked on drives - rarely were there cars parked on the street at all. As an aside, we used to play in the street. If we were playing football and heard a car coming, we would stop the game, pick the ball up and wait for the car to pass. The planners had made the road wide enough for two cars to pass each other but there was no allowance for cars to be parked on the road and if two were parked opposite each other, another car passing through would be a squeeze if not impossible. Nowadays, in that street, most houses with two adults have two cars which line both sides of the road and kids do not play in the street. My sister now lives on a road which was built in the 1940s - most of the houses are terraced and there are very few houses with drives and the road is even narrower plus is a bus route. Somehow, it has become conventional for cars on one side to park normally, i.e. off the kerb, whilst cars on the other side park partially on the pavement - if they didn't, the buses would struggle to get down the road. Unfortunately, planners 60 or 80 years ago, did not allow for expanded car use and so, basically, although I hate cars parking on the pavement, when I visit my sister, I have to do it otherwise my car would be sticking out into the road by two feet and if it didn't block the bus, it might very well have the wing mirror, if not the wing, removed by it. I reluctantly think that it has to be tolerated so long as the car does not extend further onto the pavement than any immovable obstacles like, say, lampposts, bollards or bus shelters though this must be viewed with some common sense as some lampposts are practically against garden walls. That all said, none of the examples you showed were excusable.

[@lauraleicathell6091]

OK, figured it out, duh. Pavement = sidewalk. It's called no respect, so NO! Love your channel. Thanks.

[@BlackBeltBarrister]

Thanks for that! 😁

[@lauraleicathell6091]

​@@BlackBeltBarrister, You are welcome.

[@LupaDomina]

Both my parents used mobility aids - a scooter and electric wheelchair. It frustrated the hell out of me that their daily run to the cafe/shops was like trying to navigate something out of a Call of Duty mission. What gives these people the idea that it's ever ok to park on something that is designated for pedestrians. Parking on grass verges too - grrrr.

[@delma7736]

Thanks for this, really makes my blood boil

[@Treeborer]

I absolutely agree. Another one is drivers who park directly over cycle lanes, bloody ignorant and dangerous.

[@mariahepworth2392]

I’ve complained to my local council and West Yorkshire police about cars parking on the pavement and nothing has been done. People are selfish and don’t consider others. My other bugbear are bins on the pavement that are difficult to pass by, again my council have refused to do anything about it.

[@400turtles]

As regards bins; they have to be left out for collection at the householders entrance; it is how the refuse collectors leave them abandoned on the middle of the pavement that annoys me. I have to leave my bin out by 6:00AM (usually emptied about 7:30AM) so it goes out late on the evening of the previous day (to stop neighbours being disturbed in the morning) then I am away at work all day, often not returning until 9:00PM. So my bin is left causing an obstruction for 14 hours for an operation that takes about 3 seconds (3.2 seconds if they took the time to place it against the wall where I left it).

[@mariahepworth2392]

Yes I appreciate what you’re saying but people in my area leave their bins out 24/7 they never take them in.

[@Daytonafox1]

I use a Mobility Scooter and cars parked on or half on/off the pavement is a right pain. My area lots do it and I'm forced to go over gardens driveways or in busy roads to get around them.

[@valeriegrimshaw1365]

I live in a private road. People round the corner have their own private car park and garages but CHOOSE to park in OUR private road and they block it to bin lorries and delivery trucks etc with their big 4x4 s UNLESS I park my small car with 2 wheels up the kerb. There is room for wheelchairs pushchair mobility scooters to get by. I engaged a solicitor to write to the owners (holiday lets btw) but all we get is 'you can't enforce it' from them.

[@jamingaming9251]

That must be annoying because it falls under a civil matter there's no help you can get from the authorities. You can't even clamp them and charge them anymore.

[@tomriley5790]

@@jamingaming9251 why can't you clamp them if they're no a private road?

[@jamingaming9251]

@@tomriley5790 because lots of people started clamping cars and now only the council can do it.

[@betlea8070]

The scariest thing in a wheelchair is having to push yourself into the road at a height driver wont be expecting, especially from between two parked cars. Not having a dropped curb is another disadvantage. When you're struggling already, the owner of the car screaming at you not to scratch his car, is then distressing. I now have a video camera after being shoved into the road by an irrate driver who accused me of attempting to damage his car. Youre not only vulnerable to traffic etc, you are also at risk from the driver, who will scream at you when their inadequacies are highlighted in public 😞 Thank you for covering this. We have various groups on SM that are just full of this! Dark humour is a wonderful coping mechanism! 😏

[@ztwo6179]

When the pavement is full up, please use the road 😁 Look, it's causing an unnecessary obstruction plain and simple and, it is actionable by a fixed penalty and subsequent removal of the vehicle. The difficulty is in getting the police or traffic wardens to do their job.... more often they're not around at the time and as far as plod is concerned, it's now beneath their attention threshold. On the other hand, plod do like to park their own police vehicles on the pavement too! So perhaps punishing plod in the first instance would be a good place to start. Get them to set the right example, then we might stand a chance of halting the scourge of obstructive parking.

[@SpareSomeChange8080]

I park on the pavement sometimes, i know you're not supposed to, but I always check the gap I've left is large enough for a wheelchair user or a pram to fit past. It only takes a few seconds to check

[@MrSnowMen]

Thanks for raising this point. It's been bugging me for a while Wish it was an offence in the whole of the country, not just some areas. Feet on Chairs, I would of got a slap on the back of the head from Mum. I agree with you, all cars mentioned were blocking full access to the path and they all should, including the Red stripe Van be fined. Out side of London, who do you report these cars to, it's a problem out side my own property.

[@davidsheridan8960]

Hi I am a disabled pavement scooter and power wheelchair user in London Borough of Havering insured with Blue Badge Mobility insurance for third party liability and recovery The offences in your video are static highway offences which I encounter daily in Havering but there is NO ENFORCEMENT. Having been forced into the road by a vehicle obstruction I am not insured. But on such an occasion a driver pulled up alongside me, wound his window down and shouted., “ Oi spastic, get out of the f…g road” I have been hit twice by cyclists on the pavement who also told me to f..k off and I live in fear of e scooters travelling at estimated 30mph I can still drive with hand controls and I am a law graduate. My experience of the rude, aggressive litter throwing public whose dogs often attack me on my scooter, is that there is no law enforcement in this country. There is no longer a Police Force only a Police Service a kind of alternative dispute resolution Quango. I am also qualified in Applied statistics and the knife and violent crime in UK is matched only in places such as Syria In short the Hobbesian world where life is nasty, brutish and short is with us today as in 1649 when Thomas Hobbes wrote Leviathan and the UK courts are worthless so why bother to prosecute? Regards David K Sheridan disabled by meningitis and aged 84 years

[@johng.1703]

the usual thinking is that parking on the pavement allows other drivers to pass more easily, but what these driver never consider is the people who use the pavement. but I am sure that these drivers would be the first to complain that their vehicle was dinted or scratched as a result of trying to squeeze past it.

[@FrostInFreezer]

It makes me sad how little care there is in general for people with disabilities.

[@nutsandy7183]

It is a pet peave of mine. When i used to drive, i used to always tuck my car over leaving more than enough room for a double buggy... if i couldnt, then i wouldnt park there. Most of the time, the drivers can barely reverse or know which way to turn the steering wheel. I personally think that the driving test should involve a lot more parking, reversing and technical driving to ensure people are aware of their surroundings and how to handle a vehicle properly. If you have no interest in driving, you have no business being behind the wheel IMO. If you aren't going to give it your 100% attention and care about how well you drive (and park) then you should take the bus!

[@vickymc9695]

Disabled and can't access a lot streets because of this. I've taken photos in the past and reported to the council. It gets a lot of them to stop.

[@catlady443]

What is wrong with people

[@beaulieuc8910]

narcisissm and sociopathy

[@gypsygem9395]

I'm with you 100% Daniel. I don't personally park on the pavement. I have worked in care for many years, and seen the problems it causes, through having pushed many clients in wheelchairs. On more than one occasion I've had to actually cross the road in order to get around vehicles parked thoughtlessly. One time, a car was parked near my place of work for several hours, meaning I had to take the wheelchair user across the road twice as we went for a walk and on our return. I saw the driver come out of the nearest house (which had a large driveway and plenty of room for her to park!!). I spoke to her and told her that it was dangerous for people like my client, blind people and mothers with prams and pushchairs. She claimed she was a carer for the home owner!!! 🤦‍♀️ I also have several grandchildren and my daughters and I have been frustrated many times by this same scenario. The whole thing needs regulating, but the problem is that there are so many more cars on the road now than even 10 years ago and nowhere to park, and many Victorian streets just aren't wide enough for rows of cars on both sides. Restricting parking just to one side doesn't solve the problem either, as people still park on the opposite pavement due to one side of the street not being enough when there are houses on both sides. In my area, there is a small village car park, but the staff in the restaurant opposite don't want to walk all of 150 yards, preferring instead to park in the designated parking layby parallel to our houses, meaning residents have to park elsewhere when the restaurant is open. This makes it awkward for loading/unloading etc. And they also have diners who park directly outside the restaurant - yes, you've guessed it, on the pavement!

[@mattwuk]

There's varying g degrees of parking on the pavement from the wheels just about up on the kerb to what you've shown, actually parking ON the pavement. I live in Greater Manchester with most suburbs pretty narrow and if tyres touching was offense then it would be impossible for any vehicle to get anywhere even off their own street. I love the A-Team van parking, what a sausage

[@tom5083]

Agreed! Let's enforce these laws against "Just stop oil"!

[@elaineduncanson1474]

I have some sympathy for the drivers having given up going to places for lack of parking. On the other hand, I can not walk moderate or long distances. Obstacles such as the bush and the lamp post in close proximity would be a hazard for me. I would need the vehicle for support as I passed and hope that fingerprints would not be clear if scratches resulted. Good luck to those with wheelchairs, walkers, and strollers.

[@anuvabastidanakist2437]

@elaineduncanson1474 roads are for cars which is why drivers go mad at No to Oil protesters and pavements are for pedestrians

[@chickpstranded3069]

It’s one of my pet hate too. As a person who has to use crutches to walk from time to time, I find these people insensitive and arrogant .

[@stevegoodliffe4351]

“But I was only a minute “ says the van driver blocking the only dropped kerb - after I sat in my wheelchair for more than 20 mins waiting for him to move

[@beaulieuc8910]

exactly they all say that, a form of narcissistic gaslighting

[@G4WYZ]

It's a stock reply from these selfish people/drivers.

[@anthonywood7420]

Good points, as a travelling gardener I'm careful but will be so, or more in future. I'm off shopping now.

[@JDUK71]

Town planning in the UK is atrocious.

[@mrswinklesniff]

I was told by a traffic warden in Brighouse, West Yorkshire that the land from the double yellow lines right up to the wall or hedge is still double yellows so you are still parking on double yellows. He actualy gave a young lady a ticket for parking on a very wide foot path.

[@liddylinski4916]

Roads are for cars and pavements are for people

[@BBoaBrim]

Try telling that to Just Stop Oil 😂

[@taras6806]

Yes, end of!

[@rb5174]

It’s one thing that London does better than the rest of the UK

[@christinesmith7838]

Some people just don’t think about effects on other people and others are just plain selfish and don’t care anyway.

[@beaulieuc8910]

yes sociopathic

[@nonaknight9491]

@christinesmith7838 There certainly are they are just Pig Ignorant and couldn’t care less.

[@melaniereisner8375]

When i visited Wales and England, i felt the parking situation was absurd and disorganized. It's one of those differences in Canada.

[@nonaknight9491]

Parking. On our Pavements is NOT OK. We have pavements to walk on safely, those who can walk but for those who use wheelchairs it is a nightmare. Or for elderly or disabled people with walking stick. It is NOT acceptable.

[@richardharvey1732]

Hi B B B, I have always been an ardent advocate of pavement parking, it is by far the best way to keep death off the roads!. Cheers, Richard.

[@joedewar7253]

Not for the blind, wheelchair users of those needing to use moblity though. What a selfish comment!

[@richardharvey1732]

@@joedewar7253 Hi Joe Dewar, thank you for this response, I was trying to be sarcastic!, it was a comment that circulated in some quarters many years ago that stuck in my mind as a good example of stating the opposite to make a point. In this case not a good one but bad jokes do not have to be good!. Cheers, Richard.

[@SproutsForDinner]

I’ve heard other legal minds suggest that yellow line parking restrictions apply to the pavement as well as the road. Do you have an opinion on that?

[@TarmanYoloSwag]

It's correct. Parking restrictions included the road/path/cyclelane it's all covered as the "highway"

[@nanabutner]

It took me awhile to realize that you were talking about what we call “SIDEWALKS”, because here the pavement is actually the road surface and unless there is a driveway belonging to your house, or there is a physical parking garage, there is “NO OPTION FOR DRIVERS” but to park on the road surface aka pavement!(Two countries separated by the “same” language) I totally agree that “sidewalks” (if you are lucky enough to have then) should not be blocked for any reason except a total emergency. Many cities and towns here do not have any “sidewalks” whatsoever --so there is no option but to walk on the road surface. Where I live, the trains would simply hit the vehicle parked on the “tracks”, because the “trains” are often going too fast to stop and very often have no human driver. Artificial Intelligence Drivers do not “see” so do not stop.

[@b8nnytez]

They're not trains, they're trams, but the issue in the UK is there are LOADS of defunct rails crossing our roads, thanks to the UK no longer HAVING any sort of manufacturing industry any more😢, so van drivers like the one featured very probably not even from this town, so very probably not even knowing the town had a tram system, just assumed it was a set of defunct rails, that he has gone across thousands of times before. The solution, is a box junction, which I'm not sure you have in the States, and good signage, to inform any out of towners of the potential hazard crossing the road in front of them. Box junctions are.yellow hashed areas which you must not enter if your exit is not clear. Simple solution, not applied probably because it impacted the local council's Xmas party beer fund, or something like that😉😂😂

[@barrymitchell6444]

There are residential areas in Exeter and surrounding towns where people have to park on the pavement so cars can get through. I've half-parked on pavements at times, leaving ample space for passers-by.

[@J-Loaf]

Finding a legal parking space may be difficult or annoying, but that is no reason to create an obstruction on the footway. If you own a vehicle that you need to park on the public highway, then it is your responsibility to do so properly.

[@barrymitchell6444]

@@J-Loaf Learn to read properly.

[@J-Loaf]

Not sure I understand your comment.

[@barrymitchell6444]

@@J-Loaf No surprise there.

[@Thunderbloke2]

I always thought it was illegal to drive on a pavement except to cross it where there is a dropped kerb. I have never come across a car that can park on a pavement without driving on it.

[@WestonMike]

It's a wonder that some of these cars paintwork isn't "accidentally" scratched though wheelchair users struggling to pass or even someone's lose keys "accidentally" brushing alongside the car's bodywork. Maybe the driver would then find a safer place to park after forking out for a respray? 🤔😂

[@nonaknight9491]

They are👀

[@b8nnytez]

Yeah, let's go out destroying stuff because a trivial offense has been committed! Wahey!

[@TarmanYoloSwag]

​@@b8nnytezfound the dropped curb parker.

[@steveo4991]

@@b8nnytez Creating dangerous situations for others is not trivial, smooth brain.

[@brianlopez8855]

In London its been an offence for years and I am used to avoiding it when outside the Capital.

[@johngrice2246]

The police are to blame , not enforcing the law

[@dancingdede3592]

Unfortunately the Police are the worst culprits for this type of behaviour with regards to parking where they shouldn’t.

[@drvxd]

No, the blame for parking on the pavement lies entirely with people that park on the pavement.

[@John-the-Bass]

You are correct. It is a serious problem.all the examples are wrong parking.

[@millysworld6150]

If you want a quick police response to a car parked on the pavement just stand there recording it with your phone. The police will be along in no time.