You can't park there, mate

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For all parking disasters, not just simple bad parking (for that see yplac.co.uk).

Also includes "you can't park there, sir" for the police equivalent.

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You can park there, mate (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 3 weeks ago by ambitiousslab@feddit.uk to c/youcantparktheremate@feddit.uk

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[–] Niquarl@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Parking on the pavement is not illegal outside London and Scotland, though drivers can be fined for blocking pedestrian access or obstructing traffic flow.

Oh great!

It is an offence under the Highways Act 1980 to drive across a pavement to access private land without a properly constructed dropped kerb.

This doesn't make sense to me. Why can you park on the pavement but not cross the pavement to your driveway. Surely people should encouraged to park their cars off the street and especially pavement.

[–] ambitiousslab@feddit.uk 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think it's so that the council has a control on the number of driveways on a road. Because, if you have a driveway, then other people are not allowed to park in front of it, so it technically takes up even more space than if you'd just parked your car there. If everyone on a street had a driveway, there would be no on-street parking for anyone, so there has to be a limit in place.

[–] Niquarl@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe I'm misunderstanding how driveways are built but I assumed it would be the width of car more or less which would be less than the length of a car if they parked on the street?

[–] ambitiousslab@feddit.uk 2 points 2 weeks ago

Ah right, yes! I grew up on a cul-de-sac where you would park perpendicular to the curb so I was using that as a reference, but thinking about it, on a regular street you'd be parallel and take up more space.