Parking on the pavement

[Gromit]

Highway Code rule 218 states:

DO NOT park partially or wholly on the pavement unless signs permit it. Parking on the pavement can obstruct and seriously inconvenience pedestrians, people in wheelchairs, the visually impaired and people with prams or pushchairs.

Can any one tell me when this rule was abolished?

[Catso]

It hasn't - has it?

[NORMANTHEDOG]

why

[ugly_bob]

lol, I get ****** off by this quite a lot. I don't mind if it's a narrow road and people do it so the bus can get through easier, or so that 2 directions of traffic can pass, but otherwise it's just a pain in the arse.

I'm often tempted to walk over people's cars when I'm on my way back from the pub cos they're blocking the pavement.

[Ethel]

The highway code is not the law. There is a provision under the Road Traffic Act for fixed penalties to be issued to hgvs parked on the verge or footpath, but not cars.

The offence would have to be unnecessary obstruction, or wilful obstruction.

The problem is the driver could argue that is was necessary to ensure the free flow of traffic and / or there was no intention to wilfully obstruct.

I believe that if the road is not wide enough to allow traffic to flow freely with vehicles parked both sides, there should be no parking on one or both sides.

I do agree, though, that drivers who do park in this way are a menace.

[Keeprockin]

There's numerous instances where there's more of the car on the pavement than on road. And those who have a drive and are to bone idle to reverse onto it should face a mandatory �100 fine.
I don't think you can obstruct a pavement using the argument of 'free flowing traffic' They should park somewhere that neither blocks the road or pavement.
Must be terrible for some folk with prams. good job there isn't those big ones from years ago,there'd be quite a few scratched cars

[Loosehead]

about the same time as the rule against cycling on the pavement probably.

[Toureman]

According to this it is illegal to park on pavements, this is in Richmond and I know the same rules apply in London, probably most other places to.

http://www.kingston.gov.uk/pavement_parking.pd f

[NORMANTHEDOG]

ethel,i think you might be wrong about that,i received a ticket from a london borough of harrow warden for parking outside my house with 2 wheels on the pavement,and the ticket clearly stated that offence.

[Ethel]

That was by a coucil or private parking enforcer, under local by laws.

That is not the law of the UK as a whole. There is certainly nothing like that in force in my Council.

[NORMANTHEDOG]

so you are saying if you park on the pavement in your area,you wont get a ticket,i bet you do

[kramer81]

In many residential areas around Glasgow everyone parks on the pavement. I don't mean 4 wheels on but maybe a third of the car. If people didn't do it, vans, bin lorries, fire engines etc wouldn't be able to fit through the gap. Maybe the pavements are wider here because it doesn't obstruct prams or wheelchairs.

[Catso]

Where I live, loads of people park on the pavement. Sometimes completely on it, not on the road at all!

I know there have been complaints, to both the police and council, but both say there is nothing they can do, other than ask people not to.

From which I deduce - as ethel has said - it is not actually illegal in the majority of the country. Just bl@@dy inconsiderate.

[Hammer]

"Do not" in the highway code is not illegal. "Must not" is. I got a ticket once for having one wheel about an inch on the pavement, which was at least 20 feet wide. And I was only there 5 minutes. I was not impressed with that one!