So they’ve rolled out the pavement parking ban in Edinburgh. Has anyone had difficulties getting down the already narrow streets (Builders Merchant’s, etc) yet?
I appreciate wheelchair users have a hard time on the pavements but surely some trucks just aren’t going to manage deliveries now?
just a thought.
depending on the area maybe most of the cars will be gone after 9am. However, maybe its an idea the people that buy these houses actually think about what car parking is like and make sure they have the appropriate amount of space to park with out blocking the pavement or the road. Even better don’t put a store that is going to need delivery from anything bigger than a post office van in a residential area.
rant over back to op’s post. where i live we have the same problem with cars parked in awkward places so the bin lorry cant get through. They just take a picture and drive off.
Obstructing the road by bad parking is an offence.
I do not think that “I`m not allowed on the pavement” is a valid defence in law.
Makes me smile though, living in France as I do where it is almost a religion to park half and half, some places even make it official by painting car sized boxes on both. 
Although there is no need to park on pavements in our larger village the council do their best to make things difficult running up to each Christmas by completely blocking the pavement with Christmas trees. 
I served in Germany where on alternate days you parked half on the pavement leaving one side clear for traffic.
More councils are calling for a pavement parking ban claiming if they are to meet the conditions set out by the government for active travel.
"Government’s ambition for half of all trips in England’s towns and cities to be walked, wheeled or cycled by 2030, then it makes sense to give councils across the country the same powers as in the capital, making our streets safer and footpaths open for everyone.” Councils call for pavement parking ban
Is the pavement parking ban getting closer? DfT are looking at giving powers to other councils around the country besides London & Edinburgh.
There’s a section of road near me were around 6 families block the pavement off regular with their cars, I should take my camera with me the next time I’m in that neck o the woods as their cars must be the most keyed cars on the planet. 
Where my aunty lives just a normal road of houses with footpath then grass verge then the road.
People are always parking half on the road half on the grass.
About 6 months ago the council planted trees along the grass verge. (Nobody knows why)
So now people are having to park on the road double park and it’s a nightmare getting down there now.
My biggest issue is id say half the houses have a driveway /parking area in there front garden but hardly anyone bothers to use it thed rather park on the road.
End of the day lot of towns and places were built when cars were small like original mini etc.
Over years cars have got bigger wider and road space as stayed the same. Same issue with car parks not many places have made there spaces bigger
In areas of my city and in also the town where I was brought up,.they allow full on pavement parking to keep traffic running.
…and everyone’s flat-mates are old ladies, partially sighted, wheelchair users and mums with pushchairs. Just slide her under the door and slot her in the crem and the job’s a good 'un. I’d cheerfully set fire to the bar stewards who park on our pavements. I thought of buying a 6-tonne forklift…
Yep I get that, but tbf the pavements in question are well over a car width, so pedestrians do not need to walk on the road to get passed them.
I should have said they are allocated only to residents outside their houses.
If they did park on road each side, it would cause major congestion, and they need to park somewhere.
I suppose it was designed when fewer cars were on the road, and those that parked either side were smaller cars the likes of Triumph Heralds and Minis,. rather than BMWs and 4x4s.
It’s obvious that a default blanket pavement parking ban will crash the market and value of housing without dedicated off street parking.Because in most cases it will be unviable without a matching on street parking ban.
As it stands there are loads of parts of London and ‘Greater London’ that actually have marked pavement parking bays.Because the roads would be unusable without them.
In other cases it’s possible to end up in total gridlock because of on street parking causing an obstacle to traffic, meeting in opposite directions, of a long road with lines of parked cars and no gaps.
Problem is there are just too many cars.
When I was a kid it was usually one car to one household, nowadays it is a car each for a couple, and one each for their older kids, so instead of one car parked outside a house, there are 4 per house, all competing for the same spaces on the street.
I remember as a teenager going to my mate’s house, his was virtually the only car on his street, today that street is cars from one end to the other.
Like I said cars are also so much bigger these days, there is a basement car park under a supermarket where I live, built in the 60s, I used to have a Nissan Nivara pick up truck, it was a pain even getting in there through the barrier, and negotiating the tight turns, never mind getting into a parking space…despite my Class 1 licence.
We pavement park where I live so traffic can get down the road, plus our pavements are wide enough for prams, mobility scooters etc can still get down them. 
Our’s aren’t. So the prams and wheelchairs can’t go down there and nor can the fire engines and dustbin lorries.
NEEDS to be a ban on folk riding bikes on pavements . No need for fines just 10 minutes in the stocks/ducking stool for all these minor cases . dEALt with on a Satday morning-in fridays paper a list is printed of who is about to be ducked the following morn. £1 entry to watch
There is a ban on riding bikes on the pavement. It’s been in the Highway Code probably since 1925 when it came out. It says in the back ‘max £400 fine’ for it. I tolerate kids under 12 on the pavement but anyone else I simply block them and say politely but firmly, ‘On the road mate.’ Never (touch wood) had a refusal. 
That has to be a Suffolk thing!
And I know, I used to live there 