Isnt their a rule in highway code about parking within a set distance of a junction?
Yes. Ask your local police to have a look. Go in person to your nearest police station, and state your problem, with a map (multimap, maps.google, or whatever). Don't call, or you will get a call centre, in which case you might as well just jump down a deep hole as try and make sense. You may find that several police van drivers immediately use the junction as their personal car park, or (much more likely) someone will come along for a morning and tell people off!
Oh! That's right, I remember now.... see/write to/e-mail the head of the school, and state your complaint in civil terms mentioning the danger to the children from inappropriately parked cars and their effect on traffic flow. The next school newsletter will contain parking advice for parents, with a request not to park inappropriately. This might actually have some effect.
Complain to your local council, too. You never know.
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Complyne, complyne, complyne.
That's all they ever do.
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Complyne, complyne, complyne. That's all they ever do.
Yes, I know.... but what else *can* you do? Roll the obstruction out of the way? Scatter tin tacks around it? Buy a towing vehicle and take the obstruction for re-cycling at the scrap merchants? Lovely thoughts, but....
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>> Complyne, complyne, complyne. >> >> That's all they ever do. Yes, I know.... but what else *can* you do? Roll the obstruction out of the way? Scatter tin tacks around it?
Walk round it. Forget it. Help the disabled to get past it. Try to think about something more important and more interesting. You know, that sort of carp.
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Walk round it. Forget it. Help the disabled to get past it. Try to think about something more important and more interesting. You know, that sort of carp.
Track's (the OP) post was a rant about driving problems.
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Track's (the OP) post was a rant about driving problems.
So: drive carefully and give it a bit of thought. There are things worth whingeing about and things er, not.
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>> Track's (the OP) post was a rant about driving problems. So: drive carefully and give it a bit of thought. There are things worth whingeing about and things er, not.
Address that sort of remark to "Track". He's the one who's way is being obstructed by illegal parking, and my advice was directed at him. If you yourself have never seen the problems that can happen near school entrances at dropping off/picking up times, then I suggest to you that you are a very lucky person.
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pah my local council. I have 4 of the local council live on my road, 2 next door but one and 2 over the road. they all drive the same route I do as the council chambers are 2 minutes walk from my university. They must drive with blinkers on. I know at the last council meeting it was mentioned on the agenda but nothing was done yet we have a surplus of street wardens going about reporting untxed cars and people putting tins in the bottle tubs on recycling day.
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reporting untxed cars and people putting tins in the bottle tubs on recycling day.
Untxed cars eh? Next time I'm driving hard on a difficult bit of road I'll txt thm :o)
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Reporting untaxed cars has little effect in Rochdale. A guy nearby is running as an unregistered trader from his home and regularly has several untaxed cars on the road outside his house. Neighbours have tried reporting him to the police and the council with little effect.
With regard to idiotic parking, private hire vehicles take the biscuit every time. In particular, there's a blind corner near me opposite a pub, where a group of taxis like to sit and wait, forcing anyone who's overtaking to occupy the wrong side of the road on a sharp, blind, bend. However, regular readers will know my attitude towards private hire cars anyway - scum of the earth etc.
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I think was Lud is trying to convey is:
-there's people dying in the world for want of water
- some people have nowhere to live
- some places have been blighted by war for years
- some places you daren't let your kids play for mines (exploding ones, not the Arthur Scargill variety)
etc,etc
a car parked on a corner might be inconvenient, might be mildly dangerous......bit it is a MINOR problem
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I think was Lud is trying to convey is (snip)
As a relative newcomer, may I ask whether you are both policemen?
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I am.........not under the impression Lud is...........and i'm relatively new on here as well........although enjoy the banter and differing viewpoints
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I am.........not under the impression Lud is...........and i'm relatively new on here as well........although enjoy the banter and differing viewpoints
Aha! I agree with the banter, and would also mention (IMO, again) that words triped on a 'puter do not necessarily give out the whole entire of the poster - that is to say, that it's easily possible to misjudge what someone might be like in "real life". Hopefully the "policeman in a pub" syndrome will not happen here, either!
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Goodness FT, you flatter me although I don't suppose Westpig will be nearly so flattered.
I speak as a hooligan citizen who likes old-style Parisian parking, just the sort of thing you are all whingeing about.
I collect my grandnippers sometimes by car from their primary school, which has a police station round behind it. The only place to park is on a single yellow line in a nearby street opposite the residents' bay. There's an 'arrangement' whereby if you put a notice saying you're collecting nippers from that school, you are magically exempt from the local parking law.
I love it. It's civilised. And yes, people do park on the corners and stuff, and have to wait before passing down a street temporarily single carriageway and tight at that.
It can get very tight indeed for some vehicles. Saw a truck driver reverse into a parked new Jag one morning. Ouch! Tee hee! Two grand or so!
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I think was Lud is trying to convey is: -there's people dying in the world for want of water - some people have nowhere to live - some places have been blighted by war for years - some places you daren't let your kids play for mines (exploding ones, not the Arthur Scargill variety) etc,etc a car parked on a corner might be inconvenient, might be mildly dangerous......bit it is a MINOR problem
Fair point. But the snag in the argument is that on a world scale there is not one single UK problem that is worth taking even one second to worry about.
.Everything is ten times worse somewhere else. The poorest UK citizen is impossibly rich by world standards. So what do we do - go and volunteer as a social worker in Darfur, or worry about the trivial things here that possibly we could put right if we complain enough?
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Lud, I see your point about my rant being slightly pedantic in comparison to the worlds issues but since this is a discussion board for motoring related things I find it more valid here than why are people starving when bill gates makes millions from stolen software!!
Im just getting a bit miffed by the way brits as drivers are becoming more and more inconsiderate to others. Had this kind of parking been on a quiet road I wouldnt mind and in fact would just be happy they had left room for one car to pass, the point is they are endangering lives of pedestrians and risking damage to vehicles just to save themselves and extra 20 steps to collect their children.
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"Reporting untaxed cars has little effect in Rochdale. A guy nearby is running as an unregistered trader from his home and regularly has several untaxed cars on the road outside his house. Neighbours have tried reporting him to the police and the council with little effect. "
I'm aquainted with a guy who's on a mission. He reports untaxed cars to DVLA (reg. No. and location). He reckons if he sees the same car in the same place twice, then the DVLA will probably get it.
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I live down a road where there is a junior school. What amazes me most is the mothers (and yes, it is mothers) who feel the need to drive into my road to get as close to the school gates as possible. It's a cul-de-sac so turning is always a struggle for them (8-point turns) in their buses but every day they struggle down. They park over corners, half block my drive... But as it's for a only about 25 minutes twice a day when we aren't usually in, it doesn't bother us. Although I do worry that one of these women will bump the front of my car when turning round up 'my' slope.
Once there was a funeral procession leaving from our road. Badly timed, it clashed with the afternoon pickup. We watched a woman in a people carrier try to squeeze past the funeral cars so she could get 30 metres nearer the gates. The driver of the hearse was amazed that, as they sat almost bumper to bumber she expected HIM to back up!
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Perhaps 'whingeing' was a bit impolite, and I do know that there's a bit of a road scrum outside some schools of a morning. There are aspects of moronic parking that I complain about too.
All the same, when people park like that it usually isn't for very long. Inconveniences are so numerous when driving in London that it's more trouble to grumble about it than just get on with it. But I still grumble!
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I am looking forward to parking within 200 meters of a school being banned. (rumoured it will be ). We live 100 metres from a school and 9am and 3.30pm are crowded.
BUT
We have a yard for about 10 cars so I'll issue a season ticket for parking...:-)
madf
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>>I'm aquainted with a guy who's on a mission. He reports untaxed cars to DVLA (reg. No. and location). He reckons if he sees the same car in the same place twice, then the DVLA will probably get it.
The DVLA employ people to go out and check on untaxed vehicles. How do I know? I met one who told me that was what he did for a living. Usually they make use of BIB R&R areas, and pick up any notifications of untaxed cars.
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Roger
A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.
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However, regular readers will know my attitude towards private hire cars anyway - scum of the earth etc.
Like these you mean?
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/6446757.stm
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1000/100080...l
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It's a bit much to equate those two cases with taxi drivers in general, which you appear to have done.
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> However, regular readers will know my attitude towards private hire cars anyway - scum of the earth etc.
Any special reasin why you have this hatred of private hire drivers?
Yes I have seen the links below (above), but you posted your comment before those links were posted.
Care to have a rant by way of explanation? Perhaps particularly the 'scum of the earth' comment.
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>>I speak as a hooligan citizen who likes old-style Parisian parking, just the sort of thing you are all whingeing about.
>>I love it. It's civilised. And yes, people do park on the corners and stuff, and have to wait before passing down a street temporarily single carriageway and tight at that.
>>It can get very tight indeed for some vehicles. Saw a truck driver reverse into a parked new Jag one morning. Ouch! Tee hee! Two grand or so!
One of the disadvantages of 'old-style Parisian parking' then - would it be so funny if it happened to your new Jaguar ?
Inconsiderate and/or dangerous parking is just another form of bad manners & inconsiderate behaviour .
And where , if not here, should the minutiae of driving & driving matters be discussed - I've seen posts here the length of War&Peace
about dust caps!
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Of course if I had a new Jaguar I would hate it to be damaged woodbines. Actually the Jaguar was correctly parked, the truck man was in a bit of a rush, reversed carelessly in a narrow place and made a mistake. Slightly to my surprise he parked up the road and went back to deal with it in some way. The area is one of small narrow back streets with many parked cars. Some people would call it a posh area and it's certainly got some expensive real estate.
There is this parking flurry at certain times of day, but people just patiently deal with it. Most aren't inconsiderate.
Surely the point being ignored by some people here is that parents delivering their nippers to school, perhaps on the way to work, have to stop to let the children out or see them into school. Usually they are just there for a couple of minutes.
It may well be an inconvenience for those trying to hurry past or those who live locally, but why do people think you can live in a large town these days and not be inconvenienced on a daily basis? By all means complain when someone stops in the carriageway for several minutes or blocks your car in, but that doesn't happen much in my experience.
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I had my Jag whacked by a lorry, nearly 4 years ago, when it was 4 years old.... by a supermarket delivery artic in narrow street..... did five grand's worth of damage..... he wriggled out of it, despite some good evidence, probably still costing me now in raised premiums....(my car,wife's car,m/c)
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