Longcol Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 Why does everyone have four cars? Is that not a bit overkill? One each for the parents and two twenty something kids still living at home in a number of cases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Top Cats Hat Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 police won't do anything, they say it's a council issue It doesn't matter what they say. If a car is parked across a drop kerb or is causing a wilful obstruction they can issue a Fixed Penalty Notice. If the obstruction is such that pedestrians have to risk walking into live traffic to get past, then they can authorise the removal of the vehicle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey Shaw Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 It doesn't matter what they say. If a car is parked across a drop kerb or is causing a wilful obstruction they can issue a Fixed Penalty Notice. If the obstruction is such that pedestrians have to risk walking into live traffic to get past, then they can authorise the removal of the vehicle. Yes. In law, nobody has any 'right' to park on the public highway- no, not even outside one's own house- but only to pass and repass along it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zach Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 I thought I'd seen most things until I moved into this home. There's plenty of on road parking plus off road. One night I looked out and saw the worst parking I've ever seen. The double yellows stop and there's room for a car before the dropped curb, then plenty past it. The folks below had gone in nose first up the dropped curb with their car with the back of the car just hanging in the road. Unfortunately they have little respect for themselves let alone respect for others. After that I've seen the car half on the path nearly at a right angle to the road, parked in the middle of the road...the list goes on. There's quite a few folks on my estate that use wheelchairs or the electric jobs so for me it's a bit of manners to leave the ramp free but some people seem to have a fear of walking a few more paces to their front door. Sad really and it's quite possible the same people put a nice dent in my car but I can't prove it so I just stood to the £400 bill for the repair. And no, I haven't reported them... maybe I should have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daven Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 I'm told that, under Japanese law, one cannot own a car unless it has an off-road parking space. What a fantastic idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Padders Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 What a fantastic idea. Disagree Daven... there must be millions of households in the UK who don"t have a off road parking space, could"nt work, a car is an essential part of every day life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resident Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 What a fantastic idea. Maybe if we had the level of public transport Tokyo has then it would be a good idea. Their train companies do not abide by lateness and even apologise if a train is 1 minute late. There have been instances where they've been 4-5 mins late but only because of an earthquake..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Top Cats Hat Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 a car is an essential part of every day life. Nonsense. Most people I know don't have a car and they seem to cope well enough without one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimmyR Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 The vast majority of adults in the city own cars though. ---------- Post added 12-04-2018 at 08:16 ---------- Radically stupid IMO. The existing residents wouldn't support being forced into selling their cars, and assuming that you somehow got that passed you'd destroy the value of a lot of terraced housing, it would simply become harder to sell and worth much less. no one said force, incentivise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyclone Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 It's not an incentive, they would be forced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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