Should cars be allowed to park on pavements?

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Ron Brind Posts: 19041 Joined: 26th Oct 2003 Location: England	quotePosted at 22:32 on 15th May 2009 Should cars be allowed to park on pavements to help avoid congestion? Would it matter to you? A mum with a pushchair/pram, what do you think? My favourite: Pictures \| Towns \| Attractions
Paul Hilton Posts: 2605 Joined: 21st Nov 2004 Location: UK	quotePosted at 22:49 on 15th May 2009 I don;t seem to see this practice as much today as I usd to do; more so in London. Where I live, genrally cars are completely on the road; sometimes making it impossible for large vehicles to pass cars either side, so fire truck and ambulances are out of luck on some of our roads. You might have overlooked blind people too, Ron. My favourite: Pictures \| Towns \| Attractions
Sue H Posts: 8172 Joined: 29th Jun 2007 Location: USA	quotePosted at 00:05 on 16th May 2009 True story: Walking down the busy Kennington Road in Kennington, pushing my baby in the push chair (stroller). A car parked right across the path, the road teaming with cars. I pushed my son between car and bushes, branches hitting him and me int he face, car getting scratched down the side. So the answer is NO. Cars do not park on the path. My favourite: Pictures \| Towns \| Attractions
Debbie Adams Posts: 2043 Joined: 8th Mar 2009 Location: USA	quotePosted at 03:21 on 16th May 2009 Well of course we do not have that problem over here our problem is ppl parking in there front yards on the grass!!!!!!!!! Stupid!! But I can see why it would be a problem than I guess you are putting ppl in the streets. But i also see the congestion because some roads over there you can barley go down when there are 2 cars parked on each side of the road we saw a lot of side mirrows knocked off,,lol O well just thought i would throw my 2 cents in My favourite: Pictures \| Towns \| Attractions
Jason T Posts: 7421 Joined: 14th Apr 2004 Location: UK	quotePosted at 07:21 on 16th May 2009 I think maybe it depends on where you are. Sometimes the pavements are plenty big enough, and the roads are very congested, but others are certainly not suitable. My favourite: Pictures \| Towns \| Attractions
lancashirelove Posts: 1986 Joined: 18th Feb 2009 Location: UK	quotePosted at 08:31 on 16th May 2009 As the law stands in England, you are not allowed to park on the pavement, you are not allowed to park in a narrow sreet if it causes an obstruction to emergency vehicles, plus all the other places mentioned in the booklet, the Highway Code. Since the early 70's there has been a boom in car owners/sales and even though most new domestic properties are built with a garage, as many residents have more than one car they are left parked anywhere and every where (how many car owners actualy use their garage for storing their cars/ they tend to store houshold items there before eventualy taking them to the recycling centre. When i was younger (lol) the police would 'book' you for parking on the pavement (even driving across it) or causing an obstruction. Its now left to the local council so nobody bothers, unless your friendly (lol) traffic warden is on the prowl. My sympathy is with wheel chair users, the very young, the blind and the old. Having been rammed a few times with young parents pushing children in pushchairs etc (some as wide as a small car) on the street and in shopping malls I dont have too much sympathy there.( the grumpy old man in me coming out lol) My favourite: Pictures \| Towns \| Attractions
Ron Brind Posts: 19041 Joined: 26th Oct 2003 Location: England	quotePosted at 12:25 on 16th May 2009 >>>>>You might have overlooked blind people too, Ron. You're right Paul I did, so lets put that right now, although I think Michael pretty well covers it above. So should cars be parked on pavements if it interferes with any user, able bodied or otherwise? My favourite: Pictures \| Towns \| Attractions
Diana Sinclair Posts: 10119 Joined: 3rd Apr 2008 Location: USA	quotePosted at 17:00 on 18th May 2009 Here in Salem, people are allowed to park on the walkways ONLY when there is a snow emergency. This to allow the plow trucks to keep the roads clean. But they have to have them off the walk way within a certain period of time after the storm is over. Of course by the time the storm is over and the plow trucks have heaped even more snow off to the side of the road you have quite a job shoveling yourself out! lol. But in general, no, I don't think parking on a walkway is a good idea. People have to have a designated path to walk that is safe and relatively free of traffic. My favourite: Pictures \| Towns \| Attractions
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