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The small cul-de-sac on which I live should be parked on by RESIDENTS ONLY.
All others can f-something off!
There are 14 terraced houses on my street. That should amount to anywhere from, say, 14 to 20 cars. I wish it was fewer, but I figure 20 isn't unreasonable in this day and age.
Instead, though, we have to practically fight our way off the street (if we managed to park on it in the first place) past all the bloody people who seem to like parking there because of the absence of through-traffic.
Well get lost, I say. Only the words in my head are a lot stronger. 👿
I live on a street that gets used as a rat run, but i don't understand why because it's actually slower to make the extra turnings to use it rather than go the other way
You live in Brexitland, all nicely worded considerate conversations are no longer required. You are legally allowed to be nasty and racist, so pretty much do what you like and when caught quote "Brexit innit"
I feel your pain. I also live on a terraced cul-de-sac.
We regularly have people parking there because it is convenient for the church and the various clubs etc on at the church hall (scouts, beavers, yoga etc).
Most of us have off-road parking for at least one car though, so it is just about bearable. Only gets really annoying when they park like such an asshat that it is becomes difficult to get our car out.
The small cul-de-sac on which I live should be parked on by RESIDENTS ONLY.
Well if its a private un-adopted road then yes.
Otherwise you don't own the road and people can park where they like as long as they aren't causing an obstruction and obeying any parking restrictions
5 out of 10.
I too live on a terraced cul-de-sac with unrestricted on street parking. Sometimes it's difficult to get a space but never a problem. Some of the neighbours are considerate enough to put cones out for me.
The benefit of living in a quiet backwater just a couple of minutes walk from the city centre outweighs any perceived parking problem.
Private road? Fine, but then you need to enforce it - which in practical terms means outsourcing it to some private company, and then everyone can moan when their visitors get fined.
Not a private road? Sod off, anyone can park there if they like. Park on your own land or suck it up.
[i]Otherwise you don't own the road and people can park where they like as long as they aren't causing an obstruction and obeying any parking restrictions[/i]
Ooh, hark at Mr. Statethebleedinobvious
The small cul-de-sac on which I live should be parked on by RESIDENTS ONLY.
That seems fine, just so long as you never park on anyone else's street.
Ooh, hark at Mr. Statethebleedinobvious
🙂
Well stating the obvious is often in short supply round here
i live on a one-way street opposite a school. you can imagine the parking carnage caused by people who don't understand the concept of a one-way street every morning.
fortunately, I hop on my bike, pedal off to work and leave them all to get on with it 😀
You could ask the council to make it residents only parking ( we have a lot of this in Edinburgh) but then you will have to pay for a residents parking permit and visitors would not be able to park there
As per previous discussions tho just another example of public land belonging to all that is selfishly monopolised by a few car owners.
I empathise with your frustrations but must remind you to be humble, to share the public land and to suck it up, sunshine.
I used to live close to Sheffield Wednesday football ground.
People used to clog up the streets on match days, so that when I came back from Waitrose I could never find a parking spot.
Football should be banned !
Get all the residents to leave their cars elsewhere wait til its busy.
Street football with all the kids...
SaxonRider - MemberThe small cul-de-sac on which I live should be parked on by RESIDENTS ONLY.
All others can f-something off!
There are 14 terraced houses on my street. That should amount to anywhere from, say, 14 to 20 cars. I wish it was fewer, but I figure 20 isn't unreasonable in this day and age.
Instead, though, we have to practically fight our way off the street (if we managed to park on it in the first place) past all the bloody people who seem to like parking there because of the absence of through-traffic.
Well get lost, I say. Only the words in my head are a lot stronger.
Did you move there before the invention of the motor vehicle or perhaps back in the 50’s when they were the preserve of the few? Meaning that the situation was unknown to you at the time of moving in? Then either you knew about the situation beforehand and accepted it as part and parcel of living there or you're an idiot for hoping it would somehow change.
Did you, or the person you bought your house from pay for the building of the road directly, or do you now pay directly for its maintenance?
No? then it's not your road, however close it is to your house. You've got as claim over it as anyone else.
Hell, is other people. Some of them part outside my house all the time, sometimes I have to walk for up to 90 seconds carrying stuff and children, but it’s not my road, it’s just next to my house.
There's a lot of residents-only parking in Cardiff. Just not on the OP's street, it seems.
Do you all object to residents-only parking?
I feel your pain you have no more right to park on the road than anyone else, or is it a private road
Petition the council to get it designated Residents Only. Most of the residential streets in Cambridge are......
Don't live in a terraced house, the parking's rubbish.
Do you all object to residents-only parking?
If it means creating problems, then yes. The street here is too narrow to accept cars parked on both sides without having to pavement park. Pretty parking bays along one side of the street will reduce capacity to 50% and create a problem where it doesn't currently exist.
People here generally get on with things and I've never a confrontation (except for the silly bint who prevented me from leaving while her equally stupid husband parked up so they could go shopping, but they weren't residents 🙄 ) over parking from the locals.
So there is no need to fix something that's not broken.
Yeah, I like to think I own the street outside my house too. Oh hang on, I do 8)
Just forgive them, surely? 😉
Ah - so you like to park on the pavement as well as monopolise public land for your own use? anyone with young kiddies in pushchairs or with mobility issues on the street? Your pavement parking means life is harder for them
Hangings too good etc.
*sits smug in the knowledge that a driveway was one of the go no goes when buying our house*
sorry dont help you at all but then neither does moaning on here, call the local firebridge and as them to do a check on access with a fire engine, if they feel its not safe then approach the council on grounds of safety.
''access for emergency services is restricted''
is alot better angle than
''its not fair i cant park''
There's no parking at all on my street, for anyone.
This means I have to walk a hundred yards or so to my car.
THE HORROR>><!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There are 14 terraced houses on my street. That should amount to anywhere from, say, 14 to 20 cars. I wish it was fewer, but I figure 20 isn't unreasonable in this day and age.
I wish it WERE fewer.
I live at the end of a cul-de-sac. I have a driveway. And luckily only 1 car to park. Only residents or their visitors park on the road, cos there's no other reason to be there.
Christ that was a boring paragraph.
molgrips - MemberThere's a lot of residents-only parking in Cardiff. Just not on the OP's street, it seems.
Do you all object to residents-only parking?
Fundamentally I do, I understand the problems, I know if you live very close to Cardiff Centre or a close-ish Train Station you'll be dam lucky to park anywhere near where you live on a weekday without residential parking rules - but it's been like that for decades, you have to consider it when you move there. I can't support the appropriation of public assets for private use - it goes against the grain for me.
'Homeowners' are the very worst for that sort of thing, admittedly it's partly due to our stupid housing situation, but some people are quite mad.
I've been shouted at for parking outside someone's house, not on their drive, not blocking their drive - but on the public highway outside their house - they live about 6 doors up from the entrance of my Son's school - they moved in 5-6 years ago - the school has been there for 50 years, any sensible person when viewing it would think to themselves “I bet it's busy here on weekdays, for 40 weeks of the year, for about an hour in the morning and an hour in the afternoon" and include that into their decision when moving in, not this guy, he gets all Mr Angry every morning and afternoon.
Same goes for people who live near ‘The Heath’ Hospital, people will park there, I’ve been parked perfectly legally, in a road legal car not blocking anyone, not doing anything morally or legally wrong, to return to snide notes, been blocked in and generally given abuse, usually safely behind glass or from a distance, cowards.
I can understand it must be frustrating if one day you wake up to find someone wants to build a school at the end of your road or a new shop or something, but that’s what planning objections are for – but as for most people, suck it up sunshine – either you do your research before you move in (it’s usually common sense or very obvious) or you’re an idiot for thinking it would somehow change.
Ah - so you like to park on the pavement as well as monopolise public land for your own use? anyone with young kiddies in pushchairs or with mobility issues on the street? Your pavement parking means life is harder for them
They generally walk down the middle of the street, it's really a mature neighbourhood where people get on with each other and their lives without interefering with others.
Some of the kids play in the street which is nice. Perhaps I should ban them in case they cause damage.
be thankful you don't live next to [s]a major sporting stadia[/s] the Sheffield Wednesday ground - can't get near your house after 10am on match day. still I knew that when I bought the house, so can't complain. the police horses crapping all over the road though, that's a different matter.....
as others have said, public road so don't see what the issue is especially as I'm sure you will of parked on streets on which you don't live in the past
The funny thing about most residents parking schemes though is they're only active/enforced between 9-ish and 6-ish. - when most residents won't actually be parked there.
So you have cars on the pavement so pedestrians have to walk on the road. And you think this acceptable? I really don't understand some folk.
If I lived there I would be reporting the pavement parkers daily until the council did something.
''access for emergency services is restricted''
The woman behind our offices tried this approach and was dumbfounded when I pointed out that the appliances would take 20 minutes or more to arrive from the centre of the village. There's a railway between us and the station with a 2.4m height restriction on both roads from the village. Her lovely house will burn down or be well away before they even get to the drive.
If I lived there I would be reporting the pavement parkers daily until the council did something.
And you'd be the least popular person in the area in spite of the fact that we're an extremely tolerant neighbourhood.
The crap left from high horses might stop the kids from playing in the street though, unless the pompous owners clean it up, of course.
Some people. 😕
Only 14-20 cars for 14 houses? I wish. Round here everyone has a garage and a drive and the road's awash with 2nd and 3rd cars, vans used for business, etc. Not at "Chez Slowoldman" I hasten to add, we have one old nail on the drive (the garage being full of bikes and assorted crap).
Extremely tolerant of selfishness. Very odd.
Now, horse shit on the street- this I have a problem with. I get that I live on a residential street in the countryside, but if your horse shits on our street and a car drives over it then it's there for weeks. And you then spend weeks dodging around it walking back from the car, or to the garage across the street, and sometimes, when it's dark, you quite reasonably forget that some selfish knobend didn't clear up after their animal and you step in it. Then it goes in your house. And I don't want horse shit in my house.
It turns out there's a stable at the end of the street, which we didn't know about when we moved in as you can't see it. Why they can't come out with a shovel at the end of their ride I don't know, since they spend half their lives mucking the bastard things out anyway.
Good point. Why is it dog owners are expected to carry a plastic bag around but horse riders don't tow a wheelbarrow?
munrobiker - Member
Now, horse shit on the street- this I have a problem with. I get that I live on a residential street in the countryside, but if your horse shits on our street and a car drives over it then it's there for weeks. And you then spend weeks dodging around it walking back from the car, or to the garage across the street, and sometimes, when it's dark, you quite reasonably forget that some selfish knobend didn't clear up after their animal and you step in it. Then it goes in your house. And I don't want horse shit in my house.It turns out there's a stable at the end of the street, which we didn't know about when we moved in as you can't see it. Why they can't come out with a shovel at the end of their ride I don't know, since they spend half their lives mucking the bastard things out anyway.
You'd frickin love my village, about 6 or 7 places with horses, but best of all each end of the village a dairy farm where the cows are one side of the road and dairy the other side, so they all have to cross the road. In the rain, my water bottle on the bike always seems to develop a "special" taste! Then there is the pig farm behind and the fact that they always spray turkey muck on the fields on the hottest day! Who'd live in the countryside!!!??