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Today's Rubbish Parking...
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@Wintermute
Incredible. I like the bicycle that has collapsed laughing in the midground on the left.
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Anti-vehicle mines. It's the only way to be sure.
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Well, they've not worked then....
I'm sure Inform Graphics' transit will be sitting in that position most days now too. Wonderful.
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I discovered the term "sump buster" in a discussion of filtered permeability.
Basically, the kerb needs to be higher so that the driver grounds the vehicle in attempting to straddle it.
Still, it goes to show that Edinburgh drivers' entitlement to use the full width of carriageway+cycleway+footway knows no bounds - wall to wall may be driven on with impunity...
Robert
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It's pretty enraging. I'm lost for words.
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It's pretty enraging. I'm lost for words.
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Flash mob time? Surround Bad Parkers with a ring of people on bikes / with camping stools etc. and refuse to move on for a minimum of ten minutes? (Make it a party. Make some noise. Maybe a nice wee banner to drape over the front of the offending vehicle to make sure everyone knows what's up?)
Show up en masse with some cargo bikes and start "loading" in the traffic lane. When challenged by motor vehicle users point out that we're just stopped "for a minute" and that they can just go round us.
Any more ideas?
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@unhurt - I bet the police would quickly stop the latter idea from happening: blocking the highway or whatever it is. First one sounds like a goer though - count me in.
Do we need another slogan? Protected Protection Not Paint?
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@unhurt I've wondered about doing something like that. You could also time the person who is "only stopping for a minute" and inconvenience them for the same length of time they have inconvenienced others.
Or you could yarn-bomb them...
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ring of people on bikes / with camping stools "
then a ring of pedestrians may circle everyone as in theory may not be meant to cycle on pavement either. Someone in wilkieston west lothian complained to me when I was cycling on the pavement even though 7 cars fully parked on the pavement
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There is a car transporter complete with massive 4x4s parks every week on double yellow lines of market street. Illegal but who cares. The lorry transporting the porta loos of Loo King card as he could not get round from Cranston street. Ban them all, bring back prof David Begg etc
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Who could have predicted that these selfish ****** on Leith Walk would continue to be selfish ***** ?
https://mobile.twitter.com/116mcd/status/993977552682315776
Oh,no MoT and no insurance.
https://mobile.twitter.com/citizensnagging/status/993983128111742976
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Leith Walk is a healthy reminder that the rule of law only abides with the compliance of the so called respectable.
I do not like cycling it. But it does have a certain vigour. If only the Highway Code was not just a loose set of non-applicable guidelines
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Fuming after the experience at Meggetland this evening at around 6pm. There's obviously an event on at the pitches and there were cars 'parked' everywhere. They were all around the entrance to the car park on the double yellow lines, down the side of the road (legitimately, on single-yellows) and what really took the biscuit was four cars completely on and completely blocking the pavement on one side of the road. A person walking, pushing a buggy or in a wheel chair would have had to bump off the pavement and go down the live traffic lane if they'd wanted to get past. Due to the cars parked on the road they wouldn't even have been able to cross (and bump up) onto the pavement on the other side.. The parking was utterly dreadful, utterly thoughtless and utterly selfish.
The main reason I'm so cross is that I can't work out what to do about it. Presumably the parking enforcement officers have all gone home (and even if they hadn't, they can't get the ones off the pavement). Do I write to Edinburgh Leisure and tell them to sort it out? What?
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Slash their tyres whilst wearing a balaclava on someone else's bike?
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Throw some chips over the cars and let the seagulls do the rest? This might also lead to some bonus Nick Cook frothing.
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Gandhi would have fasted until the feral parkers relented, though I suspect modern traffic might have got the better even of him.
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Thank you for the helpful suggestions. I've sent this to Edinburgh Leisure and feel a bit better now I've done something.
"I write to make a formal complaint about the dreadful parking happening as a result of one or more events running at the Meggetland complex on the evening of 16 May. At the time I passed there were four cars parked fully on the pavement of Meggetland Wynd (totally blocking it for people on foot, with buggies or with wheelchairs). Anyone with a buggy or wheelchair trying to use the pavement on the north side of the road would find their way blocked, and, due to the (legitimate, unfortunately) nose-to-tail parking on the other side of the road they would not have been able to even cross to the other side, but would have been forced to use the live traffic lane. They have an absolute right and reasonable expectation that the pavement will not be blocked by parked cars. There were also cars parked on the double yellow lines at the entrance to the complex car park. There was no evidence I could see of any stewarding, parking enforcement or police presence. You must take steps to prevent this selfish and illegal behaviour by your patrons that causes significant danger and inconvenience to people on foot, people on bicycles and even people on cars who are legitimately trying to access their flats further down the road.
Please will you investigate the reasons for this and take steps to make sure that this situation is not allowed to happen again. Should that require the installation of physical measures to deter illegal and inconsiderate parking, then you must take those measures. However that must not be allowed to restrict access for people on foot or on bicycles. The measures must be 'permeable'.
Please contact me to explain what happened and what you are going to do about it."
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Wasn’t the Rugby Club?
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@chdot. Could have been, I suppose. If it was, I assume there will be a swift response rejecting my complaint...
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Parked cars blocking the pavement is a matter for the police (although not all police officers seem to know this). Report to 101.
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'Twas Edinburgh Schools Football Cup matches, and agreed, concepts of parking safely and responsibly were clearly left at home. When I went through Meggetland it was a disaster. Edinburgh Leisure are likely to shrug. It's their usual response.
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CEC's website confirms @Frenchy's point http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/info/20016/roads_travel_and_parking/1488/reporting_vehicles_parked_illegally/1
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White transit, half in the bike lane exiting the bollarded section, half in the advanced stop box, at the lights outside Tesco Express on Leith Walk with its Magic Parking Lights on whilst the driver nipped in to get something for breakfast.
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@threefromleith, Loomis cash delivery van in the same location this morning just before 8am, Park Anywhere lights and no driver in sight.
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A work van completely blocking the path between the gates along the west end of Craiglockhart Pond this morning. Not sure exactly what the two workmen were doing, but it is clearly extremely important...
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Meanwhile, in the Highlands, "FURIOUS councillors have lashed out after being ticketed for flouting the rules at their own free car park .." Inverness Courier
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"I am not going to walk along Glenurquhart Road when I am entitled to park outside the HQ."
Glenurquhart Road is 1km long.
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