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Today's Rubbish Parking...
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Posted 6 years ago #
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Need to be first in the queue when it opens, though!
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@acsimpson: you could always print a page or two out and leave then under his wiper. (with reference to the ECC leaflet about pavement parking)
I was kind of holding out for the government to pass its new pavement parking legislation, so that I could dob him in to the local polis, but given the apparent rate of progress this seems to be more complicated to achieve than Brexit.
I don't have a copy of the leaflet on my computer, and it seems to have disappeared off the council web site. I don't suppose anyone has a copy (preferably electronic) that I could use?
Posted 6 years ago # -
North Meadow Walk bike side blocked at the corner by Middle Meadow Walk by a van delivering yellow hire bikes for a tryout/photoshoot. Unjoined-up thinking.
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Saw this too. Really unthoughtful and silly.
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Was it parked there all morning, or just whilst they were unloading?
Neither is acceptable, obviously, but one is less acceptable.
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Haven't been back past it since I came past at peak path flux time this morning. I was going to go back at lunchtime to see who it was in order to whine at them on the Twitters but they'd since been identified.
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Morningsider commented on the bike but not the van so maybe it was moved?
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According to the Highway Code, these are the only laws of where you can’t park
:: On a pedestrian crossing, including the area marked by the zig-zag lines
:: In marked taxi bays
:: In a cycle lane
:: On red lines
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Quality
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From the look of the I Love Leith Facebook page, one of the La Favorita double-parking-enabling transport modules has been "seized for non-payment of lease charges".
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@winpig - bit late with this, but I believe all their cars were all seized on Friday. There was indignation in Porty as Pizza orders were cancelled at short notice. Not sure if they have them back. Schadenfreude.
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Not sure if they have them back.
Someone was driving one in Gilmerton last night.
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@Frenchy: Could have been from the Morningside branch?
Stopped to photograph this today:
By no means the first time I've seen delivery vans parked there like that. Nothing says "IDGAF" like parking right next to the diversion sign, thus ensuring that the footway is obstructed much more effectively than if they'd parked a few yards further back...
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The use of the footway for parking is now completely normalised, and I bet most drivers wouldn't even understand what the problem is. I was trying to remember when this happened. I'm pretty sure that 20 years ago, pavement parking in Edinburgh was virtually non-existent/
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I think a lot of the pavement parking will be down to casualised labour. If you're on piece work or a 'self-employed' driver with one customer you do what you can get away with.
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Lot of motorist doublethink going on:
a) in driving mode, think it's fine to bump vehicles over kerbs/onto footpaths/cause impassable obstruction & will exhibit rage/astonishment if challenged over it
to be followed by b) blaming the council for broken up flagstones & rutted tarmac pavements when in ped mode
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Posted 6 years ago #
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How many bills do we need for pavement parking to be against the law?!
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a van blocking the Leith walk path on sunday
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Four cars all parked on the pavement opposite the scout hall on Corstorphine High Street, forcing a woman with a buggy to walk in the road.
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MORE than £500,000 worth of parking fines were slapped on cars in George Street last year, the most of any road in the Capital.
The value of tickets issued on the New Town shopping thoroughfare has more than doubled in two years. Penalties issued across the city in 2017 were at a five-year high and worth more than £5 million.
Motoring representatives said the money could fill tens of thousands of potholes while city chiefs said parking fines are needed to help regulate traffic.
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Motoring representatives said the money could fill tens of thousands of potholes
So they think a pothole costs less than £50 to repair?
Dream on.
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Last week, myself and a neighbour who was also being paid to sit at home cleared neighbouring paths and pavements and gritted them.
This was a cue for one neighbour to put his car completely on the cleared pavement - as he usualy uses that bit as his private parking space:
https://twitter.com/seansauzee/status/970274131102064640?s=09
To park here at any time, but given the road conditions...
Oh and he is not a "cyclist" He deals in second hand bikes, never rides any.
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@ECT - Even without the snow, he's completely blocking the pavement there isn't he? Police should be able to help.
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You are correct Frenchy.
They are not interested though. I must have reported him specifically over a dozen times.
The problem is worsening too. Whether exacerbated or emboldened by him, other neighbours are beginning to pavement Park too.
Posted 6 years ago # -
Looks like there is plenty snow left to create impassable mounds either end of his vehicle. No need to actually pile it on top to create almost-maximum nuisance. Maximum nuisance has already been created by him.
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