howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Dover in common with many other town across the country would grind to a halt if there were a blanket ban such as in London but something has to be done when mobility scooters and baby buggies are having to venture onto the road near busy junctions. Some roads are so narrow that parking on one side is the only answer whilst on wider roads a line could be painted on the pavement to show how far up the kerb motorists are allowed to park making it fair for all pedestrians and road users.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,655
The simple but costly answer is to make pavements narrow on at least one side of the road where there is a problem which would mean the road is that little bit wider.
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Guest 1713- Registered: 14 Mar 2016
- Posts: 110
Can't see that working up the Clarendons
there are some restrictions in place in Canterbury so be interesting how that works there? HGV'S can be ticketed for parking on pavements so why not ticket cars that nuisance park??
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Guest 1033- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
- Posts: 509
I have always been under the impression that it is an offence to block the pavement by parking on it, so that people have to walk in the road to pass the obstruction, but for the life of me I can't find it anywhere. London has passed the by-law (?) because of the damage done to kerbs, and the resultant costs in repairing the damage.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
I think it was the old GLC that banned it 40 years ago in the Capital but nowhere else has joined in. Locally the pavement leading to the town on the Folkestone Road is especially wide and could provide parking bays. The downside is that they would be too close to Priory Station and commuters would snap them up early morning until the evening.
TheThinWhiteDuke- Registered: 7 Jul 2016
- Posts: 335
Don't start me off about parking in this town (oops, too late).
I may have mentioned it anonymously on line once and ended up being quoted verbatim in the Dover Express (complete with real name and road).
Taking a bloody liberty that was I thought.
Much like people who park where they like as if the parking laws that apply to absolutely everybody else somehow don't apply to them.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,469
There is no national prohibition against either on-street or pavement parking except in the
latter case in London and more widely in relation to heavy commercial vehicles.
However, it is an offence to drive onto the pavement, whether with intention to park or
not. Because this is a criminal offence, as opposed to the vast majority of civil parking
offences, it is enforceable by the police, not the local authority.
Which is why Charlie is trying to get this and the various forms of 'obstruction' devolved for action by 'traffic wardens'(or whatever they are called nowadays) rather than Plod who is busy solving one in ten burglaries.
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