http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Today's Rubbish Parking... en Wed, 13 May 2026 04:06:22 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12775&page=31#post-375552 Wed, 19 Jun 2024 14:16:22 +0000 SRD 375552@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hope no one here left their bike on Lothian Rd: </p> <p><a href="https://x.com/nicholakane_/status/1803396727912665158" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/nicholakane_/status/1803396727912665158</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12775&page=31#post-375512 Tue, 18 Jun 2024 12:08:08 +0000 ejstubbs 375512@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Travelling in to town on the bus yesterday, a service alert scrolled through on the information screen saying that buses were unable to serve a certain street "due to parked cars". I <em>think</em> it was Lochend Road that was affected but I can't be sure as the bus had just arrived at my stop and I had to disembark. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12775&page=31#post-370008 Wed, 30 Aug 2023 20:18:30 +0000 chdot 370008@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/23753210.bmw-window-smashed-parking-outside-priests-home/" rel="nofollow">https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/23753210.bmw-window-smashed-parking-outside-priests-home/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12775&page=31#post-369968 Sat, 26 Aug 2023 18:04:42 +0000 chdot 369968@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/aug/26/more-than-150-car-models-too-big-for-regular-uk-parking-spaces" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/aug/26/more-than-150-car-models-too-big-for-regular-uk-parking-spaces</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12775&page=31#post-369821 Fri, 18 Aug 2023 18:52:12 +0000 edinburgh87 369821@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/dramatic-moment-edinburgh-bus-driver-27072297" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/dramatic-moment-edinburgh-bus-driver-27072297</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12775&page=31#post-367901 Thu, 04 May 2023 19:23:47 +0000 chdot 367901@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>#EdinburghRP were carrying out speed checks on the A90 at Dalmeny. These vehicles were stopped after driving at 75, 78 &amp; 81mph on a 50mph road. All drivers have been reported to @COPFS &amp; could face a driving ban. Drivers please watch your speed. </p> <p>#Fatal5 #KeepingPeopleSafe </p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/psosroads/status/1654146163061190658?" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/psosroads/status/1654146163061190658?</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12775&page=31#post-367887 Wed, 03 May 2023 17:09:07 +0000 ejstubbs 367887@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I think the EEN should have been a lot more discriminating between streets where it can be difficult to <em>find</em> a parking space, and streets where vehicles are actually parked <em>badly</em>. The article does after all claims to be about the "worst streets for <strong>bad</strong> parking" - which I would take to mean parking on the footway, on DYLs, in a bus lane* or otherwise obstructively, illegally or without consideration for others. A lot of people having the temerity to park legitimately in the street where you also want to park isn't bad parking, it's bad luck.</p> <p>As an example: the problem with Iona Street seems to be more about Hibs fans not being able to find a parking space there on match days, and one individual claiming that they'll be unable to visit their ageing relative when it becomes residents' parking only. Neither complaint mentions anything about how well or badly vehicles are parked. (TBH I've little sympathy for footie fans who expect to be able to clog up the streets around a stadium on match days. And expecting to be able to park right outside where you want to visit strikes me as an example of a bad parking <em>attitude</em> as much as anything.)</p> <p>All in all, a pretty dreadful article IMO. The writer doesn't even seem to have got off their backside to go and look at the streets themself; they just used screen grabs from Google Maps to illustrate the article, so that the picture of Restalrig Square for example makes it look almost deserted!</p> <p>I think what the article is really highlighting - though it doesn't say this - is that too many people expect to be able to dump their space-hogging motor vehicles on the public road when they're not using them. The fact that eight out of the eleven streets named are residential roads would seem to support that view.</p> <p><em>* I won't mention cycle lanes because of the bizarre anomaly which means that it's not actually illegal to park in a cycle lane - even a mandatory one - unless there are also yellow lines.</em> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12775&page=31#post-367885 Wed, 03 May 2023 13:54:43 +0000 chdot 367885@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/transport/edinburghs-11-worst-streets-for-bad-parking-chosen-by-our-readers-including-iona-street-and-bellfield-lane-4127271" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/transport/edinburghs-11-worst-streets-for-bad-parking-chosen-by-our-readers-including-iona-street-and-bellfield-lane-4127271</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12775&page=30#post-367861 Tue, 02 May 2023 12:47:14 +0000 neddie 367861@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A lot of the weight increase in cars is down to manufacturers pushing SUVs on to people as well as increasing the size, year on year, of their regular models.</p> <p>Sure EVs are heavier, but manufacturers haven't exactly been attempting to drive weight down, to the contrary they've been pushing it up.</p> <p>To blame increased weight solely on electrification is basically anti-EV-ism (and is possibly a fossil fuel lobby narrative) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12775&page=30#post-367858 Tue, 02 May 2023 10:46:18 +0000 pringlis 367858@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><blockquote><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/01/new-york-city-garage-collapse-death-risk" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/01/new-york-city-garage-collapse-death-risk</a></blockquote></p> <p>I don't think it was a factor in that collapse but I was reading recently that the increased weight of electric vehicles coupled with the fact that they tend to cluster in a car park around any charging infrastructure is going to put a lot of strain on existing multi-storey car parks. Within design tolerance at the moment but will increase maintenance requirements as the extra weight puts a lot of strain on the structure.</p> <p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/heavy-weight-electric-cars-could-cause-aging-parking-lots-collapse-2023-4?r=US&amp;IR=T" rel="nofollow">https://www.businessinsider.com/heavy-weight-electric-cars-could-cause-aging-parking-lots-collapse-2023-4?r=US&amp;IR=T</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12775&page=30#post-367857 Mon, 01 May 2023 19:33:46 +0000 chdot 367857@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/01/new-york-city-garage-collapse-death-risk" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/01/new-york-city-garage-collapse-death-risk</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12775&page=30#post-366965 Fri, 03 Mar 2023 21:21:41 +0000 chdot 366965@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/people/edinburgh-parking-new-research-reveals-illegal-parking-hotspots-in-edinburgh-including-leith-walk-and-portobello-4049828" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/people/edinburgh-parking-new-research-reveals-illegal-parking-hotspots-in-edinburgh-including-leith-walk-and-portobello-4049828</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12775&page=30#post-366112 Fri, 27 Jan 2023 23:11:51 +0000 chdot 366112@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>Even when the parking ban comes (eventually) into force, the Police will be exempt. It's really frustrating, but they are not the real problem. </p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1619095012792205312" rel="nofollow">https://mobile.twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1619095012792205312</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12775&page=30#post-365316 Thu, 15 Dec 2022 11:04:02 +0000 Morningsider 365316@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The Council cannot, and does not propose to, ban pavement parking in Edinburgh before the introduction of the nationwide ban. </p> <p>To understand what the Council are proposing it is important to know that parking restrictions indicated by yellow and red lines apply to the full width of a street - carriageway, pavement and any verges. Also, the Council require any parking attendant finding a vehicle parked on a yellow or red line to wait either five or ten minutes before issuing a ticket. This is not a statutory requirement.</p> <p>Looking <a href="https://democracy.edinburgh.gov.uk/documents/s52662/Item%207.3%20-%20Review%20of%20Parking%20Policy.pdf">at the paperwork</a>, the Council simply proposes to remove this grace period for people parked on a footway or cycle track where there are yellow or red lines.</p> <p>In no way is this a ban on pavement parking. If the media simply didn't just rehash Council press releases they might have noticed this. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12775&page=30#post-365314 Thu, 15 Dec 2022 09:41:47 +0000 chdot 365314@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/transport/edinburgh-pavement-parking-ban-a-step-closer-as-council-backs-proposals-for-tougher-rules-3954344" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/transport/edinburgh-pavement-parking-ban-a-step-closer-as-council-backs-proposals-for-tougher-rules-3954344</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12775&page=30#post-365161 Thu, 08 Dec 2022 11:46:33 +0000 neddie 365161@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><blockquote>the cars were targeted because of their placement on the pavements</blockquote></p> <p>I see that cars are now "placed" on the pavement. No, not driven by drivers on to the pavement, "placed"!</p> <p>Jeez, the efforts that the press go to to excuse driver behaviour... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12775&page=30#post-365149 Wed, 07 Dec 2022 19:44:00 +0000 chdot 365149@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/cars-spray-painted-move-windows-25673875" rel="nofollow">https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/cars-spray-painted-move-windows-25673875</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12775&page=30#post-363064 Sun, 28 Aug 2022 09:22:12 +0000 chdot 363064@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.fifetoday.co.uk/news/politics/council/fife-councils-ps70000-car-park-deal-at-closed-kirkcaldy-shopping-centre-outrageous-3818610" rel="nofollow">https://www.fifetoday.co.uk/news/politics/council/fife-councils-ps70000-car-park-deal-at-closed-kirkcaldy-shopping-centre-outrageous-3818610</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12775&page=30#post-362575 Fri, 12 Aug 2022 14:52:03 +0000 chdot 362575@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>“I don’t know what we are going to do now to park our cars. Most households have two cars, and although some have a driveway, not all of us do.</p> <p>“Surely they can’t do this without consulting us?” </p> <p>It is understood that a Traffic Regulation Order (TRO) should have been submitted before local developers placed the double yellow lines on the road. Therefore, it is believed that the double yellow lines may be removed until a TRO can be carried out and residents opinions sought.</p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/edinburgh-resident-unable-park-outside-24724423" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/edinburgh-resident-unable-park-outside-24724423</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12775&page=30#post-362079 Wed, 20 Jul 2022 20:06:44 +0000 chdot 362079@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/people/councillor-demands-crackdown-on-appalling-and-dangerous-parking-in-portobello-3774641" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/people/councillor-demands-crackdown-on-appalling-and-dangerous-parking-in-portobello-3774641</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12775&page=30#post-361527 Tue, 21 Jun 2022 13:10:25 +0000 pringlis 361527@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My usual low-level anger on the school run was raised this morning by this person parking on the zebra crossing on Canaan Lane right beside the school. The parking issues are just constant there and will only get worse next year when the nursery opens too. <img src="https://i.ibb.co/JzTj5Pn/Car-On-Zebra.jpg"> </p> <p>I think it's the complete lack of any awareness of the dangers that parking like that creates, coupled with the fact that:<br /> 1) I don't think this crossing is enforceable as there's no zig-zag lines. What does a yellow line on a zebra crossing even mean - it implies that you can part there at some times?!<br /> 2) That junction was butchered as part of the building work at the school and hasn't been restored. They removed protection for the bike lane and pavement build out to allow HGVs to turn into the road more easily. Predictably cars just started parking in the area where the kerb was, and cars swing in and park for school drop-off. I've asked councillors to chase if the contractor will be footing the cost for restoring!</p> <p>Before: <a href="https://ibb.co/D8cF4Qd" rel="nofollow">https://ibb.co/D8cF4Qd</a><br /> After: <a href="https://ibb.co/XVyGht3" rel="nofollow">https://ibb.co/XVyGht3</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12775&page=30#post-361492 Sat, 18 Jun 2022 07:24:33 +0000 chdot 361492@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>Thanks to<br /> @JennyGilruth<br /> for meeting us today! Pavements are for people, not parking, so good to hear her assurance that it will only be possible to exempt streets from the coming ban on #PavementParking in exceptional circumstances. No blanket exemptions will be permitted.</p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/WeAreMACS/status/1537051032726945793" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/WeAreMACS/status/1537051032726945793</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12775&page=30#post-361370 Sun, 12 Jun 2022 13:19:45 +0000 chdot 361370@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>If you contact 101 for any parking issues where there isn't sufficient room to pass. It will get allocated to officers, whether local or RP, to assess any obstruction and if so and the vehicle owner can't be located the vehicle will be uplifted. That's what happened today </p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/polscotrpu/status/1535601114883801092" rel="nofollow">https://mobile.twitter.com/polscotrpu/status/1535601114883801092</a></p> <p>Mmm </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12775&page=30#post-361353 Fri, 10 Jun 2022 22:25:01 +0000 chdot 361353@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>Parking fines in George Street brought in more than £460,000 for the city council last year. </p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/transport/these-are-edinburghs-top-ten-streets-for-parking-fines-which-raised-more-than-ps1million-for-edinburgh-council-3728042" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/transport/these-are-edinburghs-top-ten-streets-for-parking-fines-which-raised-more-than-ps1million-for-edinburgh-council-3728042</a></p> <p>Maybe time to double the fines?? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12775&page=30#post-360548 Fri, 13 May 2022 18:07:38 +0000 MediumDave 360548@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Dalry Road, 1735 near the appliance shop. Dude in Range Rover (quelle surprise) getting into a fearful gammony bate with one of the parking enforcement officers who was busy giving him a (richly deserved) ticket.</p> <p>I larfed. Cops lurking nearby too. Would have stayed to see if the Rage Rover dude either burst a bloodvessel or talked himself into a breach of the peace charge. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12775&page=30#post-360413 Mon, 09 May 2022 13:39:15 +0000 chdot 360413@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p> “They have begun issuing £100 tickets (reduced to £60 if paid within 14 days) to anyone that uses the car park, including me and my staff, even though we own the site,” Phil Tye, the Yap chair, said. </p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/may/09/food-bank-users-threatened-with-170-parking-fine" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/may/09/food-bank-users-threatened-with-170-parking-fine</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12775&page=30#post-359247 Wed, 30 Mar 2022 08:06:11 +0000 chdot 359247@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51969179401_67177e72bf_z.jpg"> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12775&page=30#post-358947 Mon, 14 Mar 2022 00:54:53 +0000 chdot 358947@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“so have recently been parking their car a metre from the lowers bedroom window. Not a great way to win friends“</p> <p>Mmm… </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12775&page=30#post-358945 Sun, 13 Mar 2022 23:54:52 +0000 14Westfield 358945@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@chdot. Well my neighbour hood stushie has reached the evening news!</p> <p>It’s an age old tale of ego, car dependency, terror of impending permits and very dense housing knowing each other’s business.</p> <p>The (retrospective) applicants are in an upper colony flat so have recently been parking their car a metre from the lowers bedroom window. Not a great way to win friends and have been impressively aggressive towards any criticism.</p> <p>The pleasures of community… </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12775&page=30#post-358927 Sun, 13 Mar 2022 16:38:59 +0000 chdot 358927@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>An Ashville Terrace resident wrote: “Allowing this driveway to go ahead we will lose a parking space.”</p> <p>“ </p> <p><a href="https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/people/parking-space-row-sparks-accusation-of-witch-hunt-3609127" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/people/parking-space-row-sparks-accusation-of-witch-hunt-3609127</a> </p>