Nigel Bagshaw's looking for pics/examples of cars parked illegally where enforcement seems to have failed/not happened. He's taking a proposal to the next transport meeting.
If you've got pics please send them to him/ post here.
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Bad parking pics?
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Posted 9 years ago #
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There are two here (Inch Park)...
Is this a road, or isn't it a road? Is that a footway or not a footway? Does a van doing 'work' need permission or not to go there? Once you let vehicles into a park, is anything actually enforceable about how they are used?
(NB: The van is not being unloaded, it's just parked. Parking on left of picture is controlled by the organisation using the van so they could have reserved space for it. Apparently the justification for having vehicles and parking in the park is that sometimes big stuff needs to be transported or unloaded, but on the rare occasions this actually happens, the space needed is usually already occupied by other unnecessary vehicles.)
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https://flic.kr/p/pxQRSB
Pinch-point cut-through blocking/footway parking, Lochend Drive by wingpig, on FlickrPosted 9 years ago # -
Help. I've been spamtrapped.
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The St Andrews chippy in Portobello has a delivery driver who consistently parks his smart car across the Hope Lane North / High Street junction. Great chippy but the driver doesn't seem to care that he's blocking a road. The pavement parking on Brunstane Road might help avoid knocked wing mirrors but isn't strictly necessary. I've seen a few cars parked in the entrance to Leith Links cycle path too. I'll try and get some pictures
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I can't remember where the first one came from. The second one is at Dalry Pool.
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@fimm The parking at the north of the Sheraton, underneathish Exchange Crescent, opposite the south end of the bridge over the West Approach Road?
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A whole lotta bad parking here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/bonsai_bonus/sets/72157648592589137
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@wingpig I really have no idea. It has been sitting on my hard drive for a while looking for an appropriate moment to post. To be honest, neither of those photos are really what the OP was looking for.
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There was a substantial number of cars abandoned by owners on the pavements of Drumbrae Drive and Drumbrae North when I passed last night. Drumbrae North is particulalry odd as there is plenty of space for 2 cars to be parked opposite each other without blocking traffic. Here's some snaps from with links to Streetview.
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Some people now seem to believe that this is how vehicles should be parked - two wheels on the pavement, regardless of whether there's any space or justification for it. There's quite streets round where I live where there's plenty of space to park on the road but people still insist on parking on the pavement.
What I really don't like is cars that completely block the pavement. How do folk think this is ok? Do they not understand what pavements are for - or do they just not care?
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One from my street, Allan Park Drive. A spectacularly selfish example of the constant pavement parking that goes on there:
and one from Hatton Place. Not sure what was going on there but they appeared to reversed into the lamppost before just abandoning the car.
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The pavement parkers that tuck their road-side wing-mirrors in really get my goat. It's a proper two-fingers up to anyone on foot. I can't say I've ever been known to unfold them... I really can't.
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I assume they think the chances of an inconvenienced parent with a pram is less likely to cause damage when clipping a wing mirror than another motorist. They presumably think that all motorists have the same spacial awareness that they do.
A quick trip to most supermarkets will normally provide a portfolio of people parking in inconsiderate, illegal or just downright dangerous locations.
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We have such an upside down society that those who park partially or wholly on the footway, believe that they are being considerate by not obstructing traffic. It would be impolite to park in such a way as to narrow the carriageway!
See also cyclists rudely impeding "traffic" by using the primary position.
Robert
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If each one of us took a camera on our commute, for just one morning, I bet we would have 100s of examples of bad parking to post here.
Go to work people...
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I have some from Festival-time when there were a series of intoxicant-delivering vans blocking narrow footways on the Cowgate and West Port, forcing the large numbers of pedestrians into the narrow channel of road on the other side of the van. Might be in the memory card on my bricked old phone, but I'll try and find them.
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That's a useful way to look at Roibeard, really highlights the absurdity of the situation.
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Does a van doing 'work' need permission or not to go there?
While the traffic light control unit at the Morningside clock junction was being attended by two men yesterday evening, I noticed that the van (CEC presumably) was parked on the temptingly large bit of footway by the clock (a little to the right of the lampost and bench, in fact). The van could have been parked on one of the side streets.
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Usual pavement parking at SoCo on the Cowgate at lunch today. Yesterday evening there were not one but two large lorries parked blocking the entire pavement but my camera was out of power.
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Nigel Bagshaw (@nigelbagshaw)
28/10/2014 11:46
My motion on tackling illegal parking accepted by Transport Committee @SpokesLothian @CyclingEdin @LivingStreetsEd @EDIWorstDrivers"
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9.1 Illegal Parking – Motion by Councillor Bagshaw “Committee:
1. Recognises that illegal parking (on double and single red and yellow lines) poses a significant problem in that it:
- obstructs those with limited mobility, people with buggies and the disabled
- increases risks to the safety of pedestrians, and in particular children, by forcing them into the road;
- impedes and endangers cyclists;
- impedes the flow of public transport; and
- causes expensive damage to footways.
2. Further recognises that despite the action currently taken the problem persists.
3. Acknowledges that City of Edinburgh Council does have the powers to enforce the regulations concerning this kind of illegal parking.
4. Therefore instructs officers to produce a report, within two cycles,
to establish why this type of illegal parking continues to exist in the city and to investigate what measures and incentives can be adopted to ensure better enforcement of existing regulations.""
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I don't see him explicitly mentioning pavement parking although the suggestion of causing "expensive damage to footways" implies it.
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Would also be good to see action on double parking (eg Roseneath street) although perhaps that's a police rather than council matter?
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Today was first day ever that there wasn't a car parked across the dropped kerb into Harrison park
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Managed a haul of 5 in just one evening, without any special effort:
This one forced me out of the cycle lane and on to to a rough section of road. He's parked on the Greenway, no stopping and no loading between 4pm & 6-30pm (actual time 17:36). Hazard lights on - classic giveaway.
IMAG0526 by edd1e_h, on Flickr
IMAG0527 by edd1e_h, on FlickrBlocking the pavement:
IMAG0531 by edd1e_h, on FlickrPosted 9 years ago #
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