Rogues gallery
We would like to give our sincere thanks the owners of these cars for demonstrating to the world that the UK parking laws either don’t exist or are flouted with abandon! Needless to say, we have chosen to show examples where people have shown uncommon abilities at looking after ‘number one’ at the expense of everyone else.
not a lot will get through there then!
TNT illegally blocking a toucan crossing, dropped kerb and cycle lane
Envirocars, a taxi company that kills grass.
Specialised Fixings blocking pavement for mother and young children.
Not so smart
The guy said 'I am clearing my garage'
Parking across the pavement outside a school is fun!
Going the whole hog!
Three's company!
Used Mercedes for sale!
It's what 4x4s are for!
Popping into town on the bus possibly?
THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR PARKING ON A PAVEMENT
if the roads were coloured black, and the pavements were coloured red, this may go part way to stop the confusion between roads and paths that some idiots seem to get confused with.
How do I send you some photos? I have several, lots of them of vehicles all done up with markings saying “POLICE” which makes me wonder if we’ll ever get the pavements clear.
For sure. You can add them to out Flickr group as detailed in the ‘Do something’ section. Do please only upload the more impressive examples where you have done something about it which could simply being that you sent a copy of the photo to the authorities.
Hi, I’ve just posted a photo on flkr. Which I call Hedgehog.
This is an example of many photos that I have sent to local authorities and the police.
Believe it or not this and all my other examples are not obstructions according the police.
I have a senior police inspector visiting me on Friday to discuss this issue.
These are the things that I have done so far in order to put pressure on local authorities, the police and MP’s. to ban pavement parking: –
I have written to all of them and challenged the replies, as you can imagine some of the replies were pathetic excuses.
I have just completed a memorandum which has been sent to the House of Commons with a request that my evidence be included in the forthcoming Transport Select Committee Enquiry Into Effective Road And Traffic Management.
The applications for this have now been extended until 28th.Febuary 2011.
I will have to wait and see if my evidence will be accepted.
Huntingdonshire, which is my county town along with some other parts of Cambridgeshire, have not agreed to take on the [CPE’s] Civil Parking Enforcement Powers and so we have to rely on the police to enforce road traffic law.
Mike, could you put a link up to your photo. I’ve tried looking on flickr and on the photos linked to this site but I can’t find yours. Thanks.
As for the CPE powers, even in Hastings where they have taken on these powers, as far as pavement parking is concerned, they still delegate this to the rozzers, (if you go to the hastings town council website and work your way through, you find this
http://www.hastings.gov.uk/parking/pavement.aspx
If there are no waiting restrictions on the highway adjacent to the pavement, and there are no restrictions to verge or footway parking indicated by signs, the Council have no powers to take action and this should be taken up with the Police since it constitutes obstruction.) so having the local council take over does not improve matters.
I have found that the biggest obstacle to getting the police to take any action is that the police are as prolific offenders as any member of the public so they don’t even understand the problem.
I also don’t understand the current police attitude to obstruction in the statement that they must witness someone being obstructed. When I worked as a traffic warden in brighton (before they decriminalised parking and took it over) I issued numerous tickets to vehicles on the pavements and even had many of them towed away. Not only did the courts back me up on this when motorists appealed, but I could always use myself as the person being obstructed. The definition I was given, which was upheld by court appeals, was that if anyone had to deviate from the their path to get round an obstacle on the pavement, then they had been obstructed. That simple definition gives the police more that adequate powers to deal with this.
Sorry about that, the photo is under vicmel60 on flickr.
Hi Graham, 2 things really
1. I am new to this bloging or whatever you call it so I really don’t know how to link.
2.What I am going for is the DRIVING ON THE PAVEMENT which is a road traffic offence and can only be issued by a police officer.Local authorities that are CPE just say the same as the police “We havn’t got the resourses to deal with all the problems”.
An area that I am pursuing is the insurance angle.I have spoken to the legal departments of 3 major insurance companies and posed the same hypothetical question,”If a car is parked or driven illegally would the insurance policy be valid.Without hesitation all 3 companies said the insurance policy would not be valid.
I just noticed the TNT photo. So many drivers don’t appear to realise that parking on zigzags by a crossing like this can get them not only a fine but 3 points on their licence as well.
Has nobody got anything better to do with there time than make a poor website complaining about numberous examples of bad parking? maybe instead of wasting money hosting this site donate the money to something worth while like cancer research? also the TNT lorry is working? and try just asking politely or writing to the council.
So the TNT lorry is working, so what. it’s still illegal and a very poor advert for the company. As for the cost of the site, it’s the site owners money, they can spend it as they wish.
Seriously guys get a life, Or atleast spend your time fighting something worth while?? Im a proffesional driver for a living and a website like this or guys like yourselves wont change the way i park to make deliveries/collections!!
If anything it makes me that little bit happier to know there is people im p***ing off just like the numurous amounts of people that do it to us drivers!!
Ry, you may drive for a living but you are not a professional driver and probably never will be. I have a class 1 licence and have driven all over the British Isles and have never had to park on a pavement to do a delivery. I also know that there is a reason for zigzag lines at pedestrian crossings and I don’t place the lives of others at risk just to save myself a little aggro.
One last thing, if you find it so hard to contain your temper when at work, maybe you should start looking for a new job as it would appear that you aren’t suited to this one.
Ohhh!! I could get you several photos of cars actually sitting on zebra crossings at a local hospital. Blocks wheel chair access all the time. Loads of pavement parking here too.
Add them to the Pedestrian Liberation Flickr group and they will appear on this site.