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Over the last year or so I have noticed many motorists getting ticketed - by the roving (maurauding?!)scooter riders with council logos on their backs. This seems to be for parking adjacent to the dropped kerbs which were installed for prams, wheelchairs etc..

As we have just had our road resurfaced and new white lines painted to mark the road junction, I was hoping the council might also have had some warning lines painted to indicate the extent of the dropped kerbs and thus save motorists falling foul of this. It just seems to be a "nice little earner" for the council and somewhat unfair. (By the way I have no axe to grind as I do not own a vehicle.)

Incidentally, I've just had a Victor Meldrew "I do NOT believe it!" moment - the road (Pellatt) which was newly resurfaced yesterday is already being dug up a few doors away from us!!

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Over the last year or so I have noticed many motorists getting ticketed - by the roving (maurauding?!)scooter riders with council logos on their backs. This seems to be for parking adjacent to the dropped kerbs which were installed for prams, wheelchairs etc..

As we have just had our road resurfaced and new white lines painted to mark the road junction, I was hoping the council might also have had some warning lines painted to indicate the extent of the dropped kerbs and thus save motorists falling foul of this



The answer is not "white lines". The answer is for these motorists to take responsiblity for their own selfish actions and not park across the dropped kerbs in the first place. As the overwhelming majority of these are right at the junctions anyway motorists should not be parked there, dropped kerb or not. The sort of drivers who do this sort of illegal parking will not be put off by white lines, but might be by "marauding" ticket issuers. And a blocked dropped kerb can be incredibly awkward for the people for whom they are designed, so it is quite clear in my mind who the villains ar here - and it's not the Council or the parking wardens. And I am a car driver too.

Yeah...


Quite right Simon, I find that to be really selfish too. Even more so when I'm cycling along the pavement ( ear phones in ,listening to the White Stripes on max ) only to find some dummy parked at the dropped kerb, forcing me onto the road to cross


That's where the danger is I'd say


( other than bugaboo's who won't shift out of the way of course )



W**F

SimonM Wrote:

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> Over the last year or so I have noticed many

> motorists getting ticketed - by the roving

> (maurauding?!)scooter riders with council logos on

> their backs. This seems to be for parking adjacent

> to the dropped kerbs which were installed for

> prams, wheelchairs etc..

> As we have just had our road resurfaced and new

> white lines painted to mark the road junction, I

> was hoping the council might also have had some

> warning lines painted to indicate the extent of

> the dropped kerbs and thus save motorists falling

> foul of this

>

> The answer is not "white lines". The answer is

> for these motorists to take responsiblity for

> their own selfish actions and not park across the

> dropped kerbs in the first place. As the

> overwhelming majority of these are right at the

> junctions anyway motorists should not be parked

> there, dropped kerb or not. The sort of drivers

> who do this sort of illegal parking will not be

> put off by white lines, but might be by

> "marauding" ticket issuers. And a blocked dropped

> kerb can be incredibly awkward for the people for

> whom they are designed, so it is quite clear in my

> mind who the villains ar here - and it's not the

> Council or the parking wardens. And I am a car

> driver too.



Well said. I am glad they brought the dropped kerbs in but think it might take a while for the information to filter through. The 'marauding' parking wardens should help. The drivers that irritate me the most are the van drivers who park so close to corners that I cannot see if it is safe to pull out or not. Your vans are not see through!!

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