If so, keep well into the kerb. According to today's Telegraph, page 7, parking attendants will soon isssue tickets if the distance is over 50 cm. Admittedly, a lot of leeway but a local councillor asks "What about people with wheelchairs and Zimmer frames? And what next? Will we be fining people who can't park straight?"
A neigbour of mine got a ticket for parking 6" over the edge of marked bay (although it seems to be OK to park partly over the pavement) and an Edinburgh friend for only 2", the streets being wide in both cases. It seems parking attendants will soon use grounds similar to that of a policeman in a Rowan Atkinson sketch, who arrested someone for "Looking at me in a funny way".
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A lot of people do what I call 'parking sideways in the middle of the road'. It annoys me when I find I have done it myself.
I am always reassured by the sight of plod arriving at an incident. They are the worst by far, but of course they have haste as an excuse. I was overtaken by a marked plod car last night on exactly that mission. We all got out of its way, and then it got in ours, the two serious-looking young coppers leaving it parked sideways in the middle of the road and hurrying towards some shop or other. The mimser in front of me took far too long deciding to drive round it, the jerk.
Edited by Lud on 17/08/2009 at 18:50
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Had a bad weekend amongst the mimsers Lud ?
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Mostly no better than usual PU, thank you. The good bits never last long here in the South East.
I would like to say that age is making me more philosophical, but it isn't really. I'm afraid 'resigned' is more like it.
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Cheer up Lud, you will soon have the school run mums on the road again!
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i asked a school run mum why she doesn't let her kids walk the two miles to school.
her reply: "there are too many cars on the road". one of them being her.
around here we have 'no go' times when you stay off the roads if you value your life.
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If so keep well into the kerb. According to today's Telegraph page 7 parking attendants will soon isssue tickets if the distance is over 50 cm.
50cm away from the kerb means the car is effectively in the middle of the road. That's not parking it, it's abandoning it.
Anyone can park a car properly, it just means taking time and caring about doing it.
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I too consider 50 cm to be abandoning. If they can't get it closer than that it isn't a ticket they want, it's their licence revoked.
When I see a car parked like that when I'm out on my bike I'm often tempted to cycle up the left hand side just to make a point.
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I don't know the official reason for Portsmouth's decision, but there are a lot of narrow streets with cars parked on both sides of the road. Poor parking could cause the emergency services problems.
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Agreed,
There are lots of thin roads here. But if anyone parked more than 50cm away from the kerb, they'd come back to their car minus a wing mirror!
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I think 1/2 metre or more from the kerb is pretty excessive too - another vote for 'abandoning' rather than parking. Also, how well would that be received by an examiner during a driving test?
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