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"Stop pavements disappearing from our neighbourhoods"

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  1. chdot
    Admin

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    Pavements up and down the country are under threat from inconsiderate pavement parkers. We should all be able to walk on pavements without worrying about vehicles blocking our way. Yet vehicles parked on pavements are forcing people with pushchairs or children to walk unsafely in the road. And older people and those in wheelchairs can feel worried about leaving their homes as they feel unsafe walking down their own street.

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    Posted 13 years ago #

  2. DaveC
    Member

    Its the fault of the two car nucular family, of which I am a guilty part of. Reminds me I need to list 'her' car as we never use it.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  3. Instography
    Member

    That last sentence could be better drafted.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  4. SRD
    Moderator

    Don't see why it is the fault of two car families- its the fault of bad and inconsiderate parkers. (or am I being naive in thinking that people would not buy cars i they did not have somewhere to park them?

    Posted 13 years ago #

  5. wingpig
    Member

    Can't get a Streetview link from the phone, but have a look at Lochend Drive or the western extremity of Restalrig Terrace (usually much worse for partial-pavement-parking than is depicted, and which can be impassable with a buggy). Neither have anywhere official to park even for single-vehicle households, but one just happens to have pavements wide enough to get away with it.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  6. SRD
    Moderator

    If you don't have somewhere to park your car, don't buy one. Sorry, I am not sympathetic. Like the big meetng the council is having about parking in the Shandon Colonies - they were not designed to be lived in by families with cars!

    Posted 13 years ago #

  7. gembo
    Member

    Lived for years without a car, in Thistle St flat, our neighbour Colleen was always up at the crack to move her old mercedes estate to another spot to avoid a ticket. Some of the colonies - Dalry and Glenogle/Stockbridge - you must have to park elsewhere? New builds can only provide certain number of spaces, presume less than one per flat?

    Have one car now, inevitably with sprogs and other dependents. Wont ever have two cars, that seems one too many to me, but we have 11 bikes and the roof is being replaced on the garage so need to put them somewhere.

    It would presumably be inconvenient to give up one car [unless one of the household of drivers was on this forum and commuted everywhere by bicycle/public transport?]but if every household in Edinburgh with more than one car, gave up just one car, there would be more parking space. [hey, then it would be a great idea to buy another car, a wee one for in town]. Edinburghers love their motors

    Posted 13 years ago #

  8. Arellcat
    Moderator

    That last sentence could be better drafted.

    'It's pronounced "nucular". Nucular.' </homersimpson>

    When you can barely walk along the road or, perish the thought, cross it, your city is forsaking its citizens for a type of transport that lots of them don't even use.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  9. crowriver
    Member


    Stupid inconsiderate parking

    This kind of thing makes my blood boil.

    Double yellow lines mean - DO NOT PARK HERE! The no parking sign says 'No parking at any time'. One car is on the pavement too. This is the main entrance to a school, children and parents are inside. How can you get your bicycle past to park it inside the gates? How can emergency services attend? Stupid, thoughtless, and selfish! Potentially dangerous too.

    I had son in tow on the tagalong, and we struggled to get past to enter the school. I was so furious I took the photo, thinking to send it to the school or police so they can do something about it.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  10. splitshift
    Member

    I also hate on pavement parking, i drive an dont do it, i cycle and walk and while its not big or clever, i have on occasion, been told of SOMEONE ELSE who will purposfully,on accident, scratch shiny cars, bang mirrors, or even on one occasion when someone was in the car, actually bang the mirror and fall across the bonnet ! Have you any idea how easy it is to bend a £400 bonnet ! Motorist exclaimed loudly but kinda shut up when the person concerned limped and photographed the car and number plate. Was never seen again !Outside my house, the service strip (i hate that !) pavement is actually grass. Now am not saying it was me, again, but incredibly a car who used to park there frequently, suddenly developed a high rate of punctures ! No idea how ! not like i spilt( by accident mlord) a bag of nails there............
    As previously said, not big or clever, bit like me !

    Posted 13 years ago #

  11. gembo
    Member

    @crowriver -looks like Towerbank? First the tagalong gets cut up at the traffic island then the stupidly parked cars nearly get scraped by it on the way past. I walk my children to school [not this week as my friendly neighbours have given them a lift every day -]. Most people park well away from the school and walk in but some people go right up to the gate. The gate is swarming with sprogs and no place for a car. That would be another vote loser for the council - banning cars from schools [staff could get a special pass I suppose]. The school annexe also has yellow lines that even campaigns run by the kids themselves have failed to stop one or two diehards from parking on. Some attitudes are very deeply entrenched.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  12. crowriver
    Member

    Yes, Towerbank. I think the car drivers resent the fact that what used to be "their" car park has been fenced off and converted into a big playground with grassy areas. Lots of shiny new bike racks inside too. Granted it is hellish trying to get parked nearby but surely that was the whole point: the school are trying to encourage folk to walk, cycle and use public transport...

    This is the first time I've seen anyone parking in front of the gates, I might add. I put it down to the rain today: the roads were absolutely hoaching with cars. Obviously a bit of drizzle makes certain folk retreat into their steel cocoons...

    Posted 13 years ago #

  13. crowriver
    Member

    From the (very comprehensive) Council parking web site:

    "To report incorrect parking in Edinburgh, please contact Parking Services on 0131 469 5400 or e-mail parking@edinburgh.gov.uk"

    Incident duly reported, photo sent as evidence. We'll see what happens!

    Posted 13 years ago #

  14. alibali
    Member

    I walk to Colinton along Elliot Road. Most evenings and weekends it looks like this. All these houses have parking space in front, most have garages. Several people have made the effort to get their cars off the street, including one guy with a big van. Only a couple of cars regularly park at the kerb.

    This seems to be a herd thing. They've just all decided it's OK to park on the pavement and since there is no push-back, they can get away with it. No other street in Craiglockhart is like this and Elliot Road isn't as busy as (say) Craiglockhart Road.

    As well as obstructing the pavement it also facilitates rat-runners who can now get up a good speed now that they don't have to weave round the parked cars, which degrades an otherwise quiet route for cycling from Redford to the WoLW etc.

    Posted 13 years ago #

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