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BenB

posted on 23/10/17 at 08:55 PM Reply With Quote
One rule for them....

Thought this pretty much summed up how the council fulfil their duties. Sunday gone I had just dropped my wife off on our high street and spotted this one (engine was off before anyone starts!!). Free parking all day on our high street on Sundays. Enforcement officer parks his moped on a double yellow line (therein causing an obstruction to the main road A road) on the basis that the blue car's rear nearside wheel was outside the parking box. There is about five foot of pavement between the rear wheels and the wall with the bench. IE wasn't really causing an obstruction, moped parked illegally was.

Lazy git, how difficult would it have been to drive up onto the pavement?!



[Edited on 23/10/17 by BenB]

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hearbear

posted on 23/10/17 at 10:31 PM Reply With Quote
The car isn't illegally parked as long as a wheel chair or buggy can get passed the pavement is classed as the road so you can park on it and this came from a traffic cop.





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ian locostzx9rc2

posted on 24/10/17 at 07:53 AM Reply With Quote
Surely if there’s a parking bay you should be in it (crap bit of parking but looking at the car dents etc I guess the driver may not be very good at parking !) as for the moped yes not a good advert as he could have put on the parking bay as well .
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coyoteboy

posted on 24/10/17 at 12:12 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by hearbear
The car isn't illegally parked as long as a wheel chair or buggy can get passed the pavement is classed as the road so you can park on it and this came from a traffic cop.


Not strictly true - there's a lot of complications around it (<1.2m is the accepted limit before it's an obstruction) and I'm sure you could argue out of it if you tried. It's not classed as "on the road" but it's not classed as an obstruction either, if there's >1.2m and so potentially not prosecutable. But it also depends on local bylaws too. And since there's marked bays, you could argue there likely will be. Plenty of police don't fully know the law they're reporting you for, but they know the gist of it and that's enough to lodge a complaint until they're proved otherwise.

It's illegal to park close to junctions and on corners, but local bylaws in Glasgow allow it, for example.

It's illegal to drive on the pavement, unless accessing a property though, amusingly.

https://www.askthe.police.uk/content/Q387.htm

[Edited on 24/10/17 by coyoteboy]






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