People who park on the grass.

Dear Diary,

Today I changed my socks 4 times before having a lazy drive into town and parking on that sweet grass verge where, once parked, I changed my socks a further 2 times and enjoyed the feeling of my 1.9 tonne car sink satisfyingly into what had been pristine grass.
 
[FnG]magnolia;30309088 said:
Dear Diary,

Today I changed my socks 4 times before having a lazy drive into town and parking on that sweet grass verge where, once parked, I changed my socks a further 2 times and enjoyed the feeling of my 1.9 tonne car sink satisfyingly into what had been pristine grass.
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Are you stalking me :)
 
[FnG]magnolia;30309088 said:
Dear Diary,

Today I changed my socks 4 times before having a lazy drive into town and parking on that sweet grass verge where, once parked, I changed my socks a further 2 times and enjoyed the feeling of my 1.9 tonne car sink satisfyingly into what had been pristine grass.
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Amazing :D:D
 
This is one of my pet hates at the moment! When I bought the house at the start of the year there were stones out to stop people doing it. I removed them and I kept the front grass looking good. The house two down from mine has about 7 cars and only space for two on their driveway. Once the stones were gone, they started parking all over the grass at the front of mine as my neighbour in between had stones out. They churned it up in the bad weather and made it difficult for us to get on and off our driveway so I've just put the stones back out!
 
It's a nightmare down my road I work in. It's a school, so you get parents dropping kids off wherever, meaning they go on the pavements, grass, other peoples driveways...

If there's a space to fit their 4x4 super large car for the 1/2 mile drive to the school, they'll take it.
 
On reflection, I would like to retract "nevermind the grass" and say that parking on grass verges over the winter (or when we have had a lot of rain) is not playing cricket either. But around here, grass verges are very rare, it's all urban jungle with pavements often blocked by ridiculous parking.
 
I wonder how many times the average Brit hears the phrase "parking round here is a nightmare" or similar? Whether it's a lack of parking space, too small parking spaces or excessive car park charges. Must it always be so? I feel it'd make a real improvement to people's quality of life - drivers and non-drivers if parking were not such a nightmare round everywhere.
 
There has been an attitude of needing to drive everywhere for minor reasons such as:

-Its more than 5 minutes walk away
-Its a little cold
-Its wet outside (not raining, just wet:p)
-Avoid the effort of carrying a bag of two of shopping back


When the roads can be such a nightmare, it makes me wonder why people avoid walking for minor reasons above. I really enjoy a walk to break up my day a little bit if its not too far, regardless of weather or temperature, if its cold bring a coat, if its raining bring an umbrella.

Though driving represents a freedom and convenient when you turn 17, it is almost become a right of passage in modern times and it is rare to find someone who doesn't drive. I certainly get lazier when i have a new car but i still try to walk as much as i can, not for the benefit of other road users but just because a lot of the time the hassle of the road and cost of parking is just not worth it. Even this time of year i would much rather get a train to the shopping centre than drive and deal with the christmas shoppers fighting over parking.
 
The french have a very interesting parking system in some busy places where you alternate which side of the road you can park depending on the time of the month. This makes it so you dont have knobs park on both sides making it impossible for two cars and a tight squeeze at best for one car.
 
Ha!

You should tell that to the people that live around here. If there is cars parked to the right, the ones on the left just mount the pavement. Some leave a foot of space for the skinny folk to squeeze through, others fully mount the pavement with all 4 tyres.
 
Bugs me and I live on quite a wide road where people don't need to park on the grass. All it takes is a delivery lorry to park up on the wet grass a few times and it turns into a mud pit.

Unfortunately though the number of cars per household is on the rise as more young adults continue to live at home but have their own car. Instances of 4, 5 or more cars per house does take the ***. Weekends are the worst when many people aren't at work. Roads that are bad during the week must be horrendous at the weekends / holidays.

What is the solution though? Its almost impossible to police and is only going to get worse :(
 
We used to have grass verges on the side of the road. People complained about it getting churned up (was fine mostly in the summer).

Council ripped it up and replaced it with some paving.

I would rather have churned up grass a few months a year than some concrete :(
 
Mini concrete bollards on my grass verge, that stops the inconsiderate *******!
 
The middle ground would be just to stick trees there i suppose. They did that on the road next to where i went to school as a kid, where parking would be horrendous twice a day. The road now looks beautiful with cherry blossoms either side of the entrance to each driveway.

Expensive but looks nice, gives people no chance to park on the grace, good for the wildlife and puts off people who wish to clog up the road by parking next to them can deal with 10 tons of bird poo and petals.
 
Avenged7Fold said:
Even this time of year i would much rather get a train to the shopping centre than drive and deal with the christmas shoppers fighting over parking.
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I only go out to the shops in the car in 3 instances (where I can help it)

Early morning before the car parks get busy, late evening once the car parks have stopped being busy or with my mum as she is disabled and parking is 90% of the time easier.
 
I very rarely drive in the city. The main shopping area is only a 25min walk or a 5min metro ride. Big supermarket and smaller shops all within 10min walk. Only drive when I need to buy something big, or we're on our way back to the country house. Sometimes I just hire a bike for the day at the costly sum of 2 euros.
 
It can be enjoyable seeing if you can squeeze your pram/pushchair through the gap a parked car on the pavement leaves, but sometimes I'm clumsy and accidents happen. But it's better than having an accident on the road.
 
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