Should Pavement Parking Be Made Illegal In Other Areas, Just As It Is In London?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/cars/784500/pavement-parking-UK-laws-rules-ban-fine

But one has to ask why do some motorists partially park on pavements?

The answer being in some cases there is no where else for them to safely park, especially if the road is narrow.

Expensively provided provisions are made for cyclists such as cycle ways at no cost to the cyclists whatsoever, but no special areas are provided for cars to park except for expensive car parks or equally expensive road side parking areas.

[hc4361]

Mamya, it's obvious - you demolish all the old buildings so the road can be widened.
Two birds with one stone - wide road and no reason to park, as all the shops and offices have been demolished

[jourdain2]

It can't be made illegal - our roads would clog. We live in a country village in an agricultural area. The average Combined Harvester measures 3.8m wide - we have others that are much bigger and the road is 5m. wide. One tractor plus its accoutrements the other day only just cleared the cars parked half on the pavement - it was a tracked vehicle and had to occupy the whole of the pavement on the other side of the road. The bus service has just closed and there is no shop in the village. Nearest tiny shop 2 miles.
It is also a straight road off a downwards hill and we have a speeding problem, so people park half on the road to create chicanes to slow speeders down. (No, the Highways authority won't accept we have a speeding problem and we all have 30 signs on our wheelie-bins to try to slow traffic.)
Everyone is very considerate and leaves room for push-chairs etc.. We now have to have 2 cars in most households and one of these has to be parked on the road. If this car were not half on the pavement then the road would block - simple as that.

[Electrochem]

Where I live, the streets are quite narrow and few people have off street parking. The police aren't interested in taking action unless those parking partially on the pavement leave no room for pushchairs etc. This is a common sense approach. Several people have been fined for parking on grass verges where there are double yellow lines. Yellow lines are enforceable across the entire carriageway, including verges and pavements. Same applies to roads with double white lines in middle. The worst offenders to my mind are the clowns who park their Chelsea Tractors and vans close to junctions.

[anotheoldgit]

As regards obstruction of pavements what about the obstruction caused by the wheelie bins?

[Haggisdj]

Where I live we had nice grass verges and everyone parked on the road. The Council then built a busway and the buses now run round the estate where I live. The Council removed all the grass verges and insist that we now park on the pavement to let the buses through. The pavements are quite wide but our vehicles still get scratched...