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  1. PS
    Member

    Rule 248
    You MUST NOT park on a road at night facing against the direction of the traffic flow unless in a recognised parking space.

    This is an offence at any time of day in Belgium. On a trip to the museum at Passchendaele we were very pleased with ourselves to have nipped into a parking space only for a police officer to stride over and tell us we couldn't park like that. We were perplexed, but he was most insistent, so Gary did a three point turn and re-parked in the same spot. Police man was happy.

    The perils of international travel. This was the same trip where we opened the curtains of the hotel room to gaze out onto the main square at Ypres only to be confronted by the sight of a market where the car had been parked the night before...

    Posted 8 years ago #

  2. jonty
    Member

    All vehicles MUST display parking lights when parked on a road or a lay-by on a road with a speed limit greater than 30 mph (48 km/h).

    Really?

    Posted 8 years ago #

  3. Charlethepar
    Member

    Development site just South of McDonald Road Library on Leith Walk takes more and more of the road every day.

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    (The white van is "parked" as well as the trucks)

    At the foot of the walk there was a big collection of location filming trucks (Trainspotting?) all over both sides of the road.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  4. 14Westfield
    Member

    I passed that on Saturday morning (9ish) and the footing for their cranes had entirely bocked the downhill lane.
    Enough forca bike to wiggle through but everyone else stopped for 15 mins or so.

    No banksmen, signage or stop and go types,, just park the lorry block the road and everyone else can get stuffed!

    Posted 8 years ago #

  5. wishicouldgofaster
    Member

    As it is a police matter rather than wardens nothing will be done :(

    Posted 8 years ago #

  6. Rob
    Member

    I always see the same cars parked on the pavement here, outside houses with empty driveways.

    I don't understand why you'd choose to park on the street (let alone the pavement) when you have a driveway.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  7. newtoit
    Member

    @Erob: Maybe if they park in their driveways, then someone else will park on the pavement there instead and block them in!

    Posted 8 years ago #

  8. kaputnik
    Moderator

    @Erob I assume they think they're doing a public service by keeping the road (relatively) clear for the fire engines from Marionville? IT would be even more clear if they used their driveways of course.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  9. mgj
    Member

    If I'm driving, I park around there when I go to the football. I never put wheels on the pavement but I seem to be in a minority of 1, yet never get any damage to the car, so why does everyone else feel they have to?

    Posted 8 years ago #

  10. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    Happens all the time on our narrow street. Both people not parking on their driveway (boggles me), or parking partly on the pavement. Now the street is narrow, so even parking on the pavement you can't fit two cars side by side, so you're not actually making things any easier at all for other drivers, and making things worse for pedestrians.*

    Mind you, at one end there is some ridiculously poor 'either side of the road creating chicanes' parking that a fire engine would have no chance whatsoever of negotiating.

    *Emergency vehicles would also still be able to get past if the car were parked on the road only.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  11. jonty
    Member

    Will part of driveway/street parking be second car not wanting to block in the first?

    Posted 8 years ago #

  12. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    Some of that bears out. But there's a strange proportion who leave a driveway entirely free.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  13. algo
    Member

    This is a daily occurrence - often there are two or three. I've tried complaining about this and the double parking but neither the traffic wardens nor the police will accept responsibility for enforcement.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  14. Stickman
    Member

    What would happen if some very large heavy bags of builders sand were delivered to just in front and just behind such a vehicle? Asking for a friend.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  15. algo
    Member

    @Stickman :-) A friend of mine was wondering something similar....

    Posted 8 years ago #

  16. algo
    Member

    A couple from Ormiston today (not my pics). Fancy cars need more space it seems....

    Posted 8 years ago #

  17. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    X5 driver insanely lucky there was no-one walking on that pavement...

    Posted 8 years ago #

  18. cb
    Member

    Totally irresponsible football dribbling course there.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  19. acsimpson
    Member

    You couldn't make this one up, This morning a truck (possibly Edinburgh Rooflines or something similar) was parked on the pavement plus zigazags of the pelican crossing on Craigs Road near Craigmount Highschool. What do you think the driver and co were doing? Putting PPE equipment on.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  20. Big_Smoke
    Member

    Found a transit pickup parked in the whole off-road bikelane on Buccleuch St. Driver came outside of the vehicle and walked passed me as if I wasn't there. There was a Pashley rider ahead of me who suggested I report it but I can't find the right address on the council page.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  21. Charlethepar
    Member

    @Big Smoke tweeting the relevant neighibourhood team always gets a response.

    Not always a helpful one, it's true.

    I think you want @south_team

    Posted 8 years ago #

  22. algo
    Member

    I sound like a broken record, but here is the usual situation on Marchmont Road - double parking on both sides of the road, and as @mgj points out, obscuring sight lines for the already dangerous crossing. It seems that the work vans and lorries know that they won't get penalised for double parking and they don't care. This is not a lot of fun with oncoming traffic on a bike - I've seen kids have to do it and I did it this morning with the trailer.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  23. wishicouldgofaster
    Member

    The pavement parking and double parking bill can't come fast enough as far as I am concerned.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  24. Murun Buchstansangur
    Member

    The pavement parking and double parking bill and enforcement of it can't come fast enough as far as I am concerned.

    FTFY

    Posted 8 years ago #

  25. Stickman
    Member

    I managed to avert some rubbish parking today.

    Lots of cars had decided to park on the waterfront at Cramond Village despite the No Parking signs. I've seen this a lot recently and it really gets on my nerves, especially as there is a car park 50 yards away and the front is full of people walking, wee kids on bikes etc. Most of these cars were parked end-on along from the cafe, but two were in front of the bollards which had "No Parking: 24 hour access required".

    There was space there for one more car to fit in, and one drove up as if to park. My wife and I simply stood in that space without saying anything or making any indication to the driver. He waited a few minutes but we weren't for budging. We just admired the view on the lovely day. I'm sure he knew the point we were making, even though we didn't directly look at him or engage with him. Eventually he got fed up and moved off.

    Possibly petty on my part.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  26. piosad
    Member

    Nice move by someone to avoid both the reserved spaces in the Harrison Park flats and the on-street paid parking in West Bryson Road by leaving their car in among the recycling bins. Unless they mean for the car to be recycled, I guess.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  27. dessert rat
    Member

    probably a much asked question, but what's the status of cars parked in bike lanes ? Does legislation regarding enforcement vary or is it consistent and its the enforcement that's lacking - or is it even illegal ? it is reportable ?

    Posted 8 years ago #

  28. SRD
    Moderator

    Most (almost all) of Edinburgh's bike lanes have dotted lines, which means, that unless there are double yellows on the kerb, that they're fair game.

    Lots of the oldest ones actually have metred bays painted on top of them. It has since become policy NOT to do this in future (probably because all the possible places have been filled up).

    If you see a solid line outside a bike lane, then it is mandatory and cars should not drive or park on them. But that's very rare here (there is one example, I think. Chdot will know where).

    (yes, lots of back posts. may be first thing I asked about here too!)

    Posted 8 years ago #

  29. chdot
    Admin

    "Chdot will know where"

    Your faith in me is touching.

    If I ever did, I've since forgotten.

    (I rely on you to keep track of such things so that you can hold CEC to account.)

    Posted 8 years ago #

  30. jonty
    Member

    The one on the WAR just after Lothian Road is mandatory I think? And yeah, only one I've seen in Edinburgh.

    Posted 8 years ago #

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