Who parks their car on the road?

I used to hate parking my car on the road. Worried about damage etc.

We have just had our front garden ripped up and turned into a driveway. Over the last 10 years, parking near my terraced house had become more and more difficult, and when planning permission was given to build some new houses on the site of an ex old peoples home, pretty much opposite us, I knew it was only going to get worse.

After many quotes, I found that my local council were offering big discounts and no VAT on all drop kerbs and driveways. They have joined some scheme which provides incentive to the council to get parked cars off the roads.
 
Firestar_3x said:
Yes it annoys me, means i have to drive around people who are too poor to afford a drive :p
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Bit of a big assumption... City centre housing is often more expensive than housing further out where there is the space for a drive...

I live on a permit road and we're limited to two cars per house. There just isn't enough space anywhere for parking.
 
I park on the road and always have. Some of the houses on the street have driveway's and some don't and because the road is narrow it turns into a slalom most of the time.
 
I do - my area is fairly nice so i'm not worried about vandalism or anything. people also seem fairly considerate with their parking too (gaps etc...) - just as good as a driveway in my books :D
 
Not many of the houses where I live have drives, so there is cars parked everywhere! When I bought my house I didn't even look at any without somewhere to park my car off the road.

Actually i was thinking last night, there is loads of council owned garages on all the streets around here. So if the people parked their cars in them instead of filling them with **** there wouldnt be a parking problem!
 
Yep park my car on the road all the time.

6 cars at the house and no driveway. Applied to the council for a dropped curb but it was rejected due to a bus stop which is situated about half way across the front of the house :rolleyes: What annoys me is that because it hasn't got a shelter no one actually uses it, and instead people walk about 30 seconds up the road to the next stop with a shelter.
 
yes especially the people opposite where i live, the guy is a taxi driver and can sometimes have 3 huge taxi buses parked in the road, along with his misses range rover and their daughters KA. can make it quite difficult to maneuver into my drive at times
 
I park on the road. I have a shared driveway, but my neighbour is an AA man so needs constant access. On the plus side, he lets me use any of his tools and has done some very helpful repairs to my car for free in the past.

There were a couple of instances of petty vandalism to a few cars in my road, but that died down about a year ago as the offenders ended up on crack/in young offenders institutes.
 
We have a drive for 2 cars, plus a garage (None of our cars inc. the 2 Mini's don't fit btw) so mine and my sisters boyfreind goes on the road.
 
I park in the street. I live in an end terrace with no off road parking. We have evolved into a society that needs cars to survive, but many houses were built in a time that cars were not commonplace. We can't just sweep all the cars up and put them in a big car park somewhere so people have to park in the street.

In a perfect utopia, people would not have to park on streets. In the real world, they do. I am a good driver therefore it causes me no difficulties.
 
It's not the fault of any inhabitants, the municipality is to blame for having retarded city planners who seemed to forget to make enough parking spaces near peoples homes...
 
I still don't understand why new flat developments without parking are allowed, especially in busy town centres. The other half and I went to look at several flats recently which did not include a parking space, and had no other option but parking on busy roads.
 
Me, well for about half the year and on the drive the other half. Got a drop kerb so even if my usual space is taken can always chuck it right in front of the drive anyway.
 
We have 2 cars and they generally both live on the drive, the MX5 will live in the garage shortly. I do have the MR2 parked on the street but we live in a cul-de-sac and there is plenty of room where we are anywhere. I does boil my pee that over the road park opposite our drive, even though they have a double drive and a garage and it's not as if it's a double length like ours, it's double width - it is difficult enough to swing a 7 series out of the drive as it is.

In reality, if you don't inconvenience others then I have no problem. If you park like my 'tard neighbors then you deserve to hae your cars killed with fire. And death. Whilst you're in it.
 
Is it Japan where they say if you don't have a drive you have to have a tiny car?

It annoys me when double park but unless we knock down all the houses and rebuild them with drives it would push house prices up even more if such a rule was ever created.

What annoys me is when new houses are not built with drives. Glad to see they are learning... :rolleyes:


Got 3 parking spaces on the front, probably about 2 round the side and a double garage.

Sometimes park on the road though due to lazyness, it is at the end of a cul de sac so no worries.
 
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Fortunately we have quite a big drive and have 6 vehicles in total and all manage to fit on, occasionally park on a quiet road round the corner just if we're shuffling about, I'm sure we wouldn't have the amount of cars we do though if we didn't have the space.

I don't mind at all people parking on the street if they're considerate but more often than not people on our street create a horrible slalom with barely enough space for cars to fit through which could easily be sorted by parking even one or two feet further down.
 
I park on the road (it's meter parking here so not only do I park on the road, I have to pay to park on the road) and my road is a major artery for traffic, usually clogged at rush hour etc. but the thing is, it's about 5 cars wide and the marked bays are only down one side, so you could still have two articulated lorries to pass each other in the remaining road space.
 
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