@Witchfire@Soup it’s illegal in London but not elsewhere in the UK. The stupid thing, though, is that it’s illegal everywhere in the UK to *drive* on the pavement. But you can’t punish the driver of a stationary car for driving on the pavement if you didn’t see them do it. Technically maybe they flew? Airlifted in?
(Plus also enforcement of most driving infractions is super lax here)
How is this not already a thing? The pavement is not the street, don’t put your personal vehicle on it I mean is it that difficult?
In Australia it’s illeage to park on the sidewalk (pavemnt) everywhere afaik(?) people do it anyway and enforcement is lax becase the outrage from car owners when it does occur occasionally means abuse to local govenerment who enforce these things.
I remember one article, some family had 7 cars (three adult kids, m other and father) and the entitlment was based around “where elese are we supposed to park our cars!”
We lived in a large medium density apartment complex for a number if years and there where forever people parked over the sidewalk on my walk to the shops and to be fair the local goverment did ticket them occasioanly.
On the plus side, we easily lived car free and rented our two assigned parks out to thirsty car owners ($80 each oer week) those fees covering our outgoings, so that was great :)
I love car owners for that. It’s always “what about me? What about prioritizing me?”. My local community Facebook page is full of them, they are all so mad about the only bike lane in the neighbourhood and after the last snowfall(two huge ones back to back) they could only complain about not having their back alley and their sidewalk cleared like the city wasn’t scrambling to clear everything.
My car was trapped, too. As usual I just took the metro and had the barest amount of patience.
How is this not already a thing? The pavement is not the street, don’t put your personal vehicle on it I mean is it that difficult?
I’m in Canada, and my municipality has one protected bike lane that is buffered by bollards and a curb.
Yet, I can’t tell you how many times some douchebag with an oversized pickup truck will bypass those protections so that they can fit into the parking spot that runs beside this bike lane (while blocking the bike lane in doing so).
If laws and enforcement aren’t working to deter this kind of behaviour, give pedestrians and cyclists a legally protected right to bump, scratch and/or smash the side of these vehicles in passing. And I’ll leave this for your entertainment.
Just double-checking though yes it seems obvious, does the UK refer to the sidewalk as “pavement”?
How is this not already a thing? The pavement is not the street, don’t put your personal vehicle on it I mean is it that difficult?
Pretty sure it’s illegal in NYC too but it’s absolutely everywhere. The biggest culprits are, I surprisingly, cops
@Witchfire @Soup it’s illegal in London but not elsewhere in the UK. The stupid thing, though, is that it’s illegal everywhere in the UK to *drive* on the pavement. But you can’t punish the driver of a stationary car for driving on the pavement if you didn’t see them do it. Technically maybe they flew? Airlifted in?
(Plus also enforcement of most driving infractions is super lax here)
In Australia it’s illeage to park on the sidewalk (pavemnt) everywhere afaik(?) people do it anyway and enforcement is lax becase the outrage from car owners when it does occur occasionally means abuse to local govenerment who enforce these things.
I remember one article, some family had 7 cars (three adult kids, m other and father) and the entitlment was based around “where elese are we supposed to park our cars!”
We lived in a large medium density apartment complex for a number if years and there where forever people parked over the sidewalk on my walk to the shops and to be fair the local goverment did ticket them occasioanly.
On the plus side, we easily lived car free and rented our two assigned parks out to thirsty car owners ($80 each oer week) those fees covering our outgoings, so that was great :)
I love car owners for that. It’s always “what about me? What about prioritizing me?”. My local community Facebook page is full of them, they are all so mad about the only bike lane in the neighbourhood and after the last snowfall(two huge ones back to back) they could only complain about not having their back alley and their sidewalk cleared like the city wasn’t scrambling to clear everything.
My car was trapped, too. As usual I just took the metro and had the barest amount of patience.
yeah pavement is the british term for side walk
And I believe they call pavement metalling. What a crazy country.
I’m in Canada, and my municipality has one protected bike lane that is buffered by bollards and a curb.
Yet, I can’t tell you how many times some douchebag with an oversized pickup truck will bypass those protections so that they can fit into the parking spot that runs beside this bike lane (while blocking the bike lane in doing so).
If laws and enforcement aren’t working to deter this kind of behaviour, give pedestrians and cyclists a legally protected right to bump, scratch and/or smash the side of these vehicles in passing. And I’ll leave this for your entertainment.
Whoops, looks like my tire pump that I was holding in my hand just collided with your thousand dollar mirror. My bad.
I’ve also been known to leave a dent in the doors of people who do this.
Fuck people who block bike lanes.