@Klaxon,
I put in my response that the councils shouldn't be allowed to create exceptions highlighting that if they believed the pavement to be wider than required they should instead be doing the necessary work to narrow the pavement. Although presumably as they haven't been able to find space for segregated cycle lanes they don't consider pavements too narrow.
@crowriver,
The only reference I can find in bill for accidents ishe pavement parking section.
"39. Parking includes waiting except in the case of (i) waiting to avoid obstructing the passage
of a vehicle which is being used for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes or (ii) where the
driver of a vehicle parks or waits as a result of circumstances beyond the driver‘s control or
where it is necessary for the driver to stop to avoid an accident."
So the exception only includes waiting rather than parking and then I would like to think it means avoiding an actual rather than abstract accident. There is certainly no mention of avoiding causing an accident.
This exception is worded slightly differently in the double and dropped kerb sections in that it bans waiting but not stopping for boarding and alighting in these locations (no explicit mention of loading).
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