Wheels on kerb

[Resident]

At one of my previous addresses parking the car 1/2 on the kerb was simply necessary. At the time I lived in a terraced house near the town's main hospital so frequently there would be emergency vehicles travelling up and down. Both sides were terraced housing and if both sides parked wholly on the road then the road was impassable.

The daft thing in that the pavements on both sides are 18ft wide with no apparent reason and the local council rejected a plan to reduce the pavement width by 8ft in favour of residential parking bays, which local residents had also agreed, if it were done, to parking permits, which would have netted the council much needed income.

 

[Merlin5]

To be blunt, it all sounds really quite pathetic, completely inconsequential and ultimately a waste of several people's time

Oh yeah, my heart bleeds for inconveniencing a few minutes of the parking department of my council, especially when I was giving them a chance to make a few bob. I also learnt something in the process.

Not a complete waste of time imo. I'll tell you what I think is a waste of time. [controversial]People wasting thousands and thousands and thousands of £ on modifying their cars, I mean seriously, lol. [/controversial] I guess it's understandable though for teenagers.

 

[Simon]

I guess a kerb isn’t pavement or road as it’s a divider.

 

[Janesy B]

 

[jellybeard999]

Technically it's illegal, but unless it's causing an obstruction I don't understand why you'd be concerned about it tbh.

 

[kindai]

If you've got nothing useful to add, why do you even bother posting? Seriously. Are you that bored? I wouldn't dream of entering someone's thread just to throw insults, it's just so immature. Grow the **** up.

Hahah chill out buttercup, Motors is obviously not the sub forum for you if you cant take people calling you out on your crap.

 

[Simon]

It’s ok kindai. One day you will mature enough to make OPs like this one, until then please kerb your enthusiasm

 

[muon]

I did report it to the council for a bit of tit for tat. I know that the people that own the van once called the council on me and got me a ticket for my car being a few inches in front of a dropped kerb a few feet away from my house. I got out of that ticket as the owner of the business who uses the dropped kerb had given me permission. Childish as it may seem, I decided to try and get my own back. As it happens, I lost and won. I lost getting them a ticket, but found out that I won't get a ticket if I did the same.

Except what you did is far more likely to be a pain for someone than wheels slightly on the kerb.

Parking close to dropped kerbs makes it a lot harder for large vehicle, nevermind actually taking up half a foot.

 

[kindai]

It’s ok kindai. One day you will mature enough to make OPs like this one, until then please kerb your enthusiasm

I hope im long gone before im such a plank to bother my local councils with such wastes of time.

 

[Merlin5]

Technically it's illegal, but unless it's causing an obstruction I don't understand why you'd be concerned about it tbh.

Because as I explained earlier and petty as it undoubtedly was, if it had been illegal, regardless of how little amount of tyre is up on the kerb, I had a chance to get my own back on the people that tried to get me a ticket. However, that didn't work but I did learn that my council doesn't penalise for just being up on the kerbstones. But I have to say, I'm a little surprised that the council didn't think that the weight of that Citroen Relay might perhaps slightly weaken the kerbstone.

I guess a kerb isn’t pavement or road as it’s a divider.

Indeed. But the highway code doesn't make any clarification between kerb and pavement as far as parking, so to all intents and purposes, I took it that no vehicle would be allowed to have wheels up on kerb or pavement.

244.You MUST NOT park partially or wholly on the pavement in London, and should not do so elsewhere unless signs permit it. Parking on the pavement can obstruct and seriously inconvenience pedestrians, people in wheelchairs or with visual impairments and people with prams or pushchairs. Law GL(GP)A sect 15

Except what you did is far more likely to be a pain for someone than wheels slightly on the kerb.
Parking close to dropped kerbs makes it a lot harder for large vehicle, nevermind actually taking up half a foot.

Couldn't care less about vans. Take up way too much space, often the space of two cars in a street that is already hard to park in and which the council in their wisdom decided to further reduce parking by painting totally unnecessary double yellows.

I hope im long gone before im such a plank to bother my local councils with such wastes of time.

Lol, you might be if you have another suspected heart attack. Or was it actually brain damage? Doctors don't always get it right..

 

[kindai]

You're cute when you're mad.

Can we keep him?

 

[Simon]

A kerb is edging to pavement. So it isn’t pavement.

Think you need to chill out a bit

 

[Merlin5]

I'm perfectly chilled out thank you. I know a kerb is edging to pavement, but the highway code doesn't (as far as I can see?) say you can park on a kerb.

You're cute when you're mad.

Can we keep him?

kindai, keyboard warrior extraordinaire!! Seems I hit a nerve. Mate, give it a rest, you're nothing. I've been here several more years than you and been insulted by far far better members in GD and occasionally in here. Water off a duck's back. I mean your little digs aren't even cleverly constructed. I do think you need to chill out before you have a stroke.

 

[Simon]

Doesn’t say you can’t park on a kerb either.

Interesting how different peoples minds work isn’t it. You’d be crap in formula 1

 

[kindai]

kindai, keyboard warrior extraordinaire!! Seems I hit a nerve. Mate, give it a rest, you're nothing. I've been here several more years than you and been insulted by far far better members in GD and occasionally in here. Water off a duck's back. I mean your little digs aren't even cleverly constructed. I do think you need to chill out before you have a stroke.

Hit a nerve with what? I was giggling away at your lame attempts at a rebuttal following your meltdown:

If you've got nothing useful to add, why do you even bother posting? Seriously. Are you that bored? I wouldn't dream of entering someone's thread just to throw insults, it's just so immature. Grow the **** up.

Even your attempt to "shrug it off" just smacks of something desperately trying to claw back forum cred after being emasculated

It's alright bro, not everyone can take the heat of burning rubber in Motors.

 

[Merlin5]

Hit a nerve with what? I was giggling away at your lame attempts at a rebuttal following your meltdown:
Even your attempt to "shrug it off" just smacks of something desperately trying to claw back forum cred after being emasculated
It's alright bro, not everyone can take the heat of burning rubber in Motors.

I'm not looking for forum cred, I'm not 12. Ok, let's try and be mature about this, kindai. Here's what I posted. Simple, civil and just stating what happened. You may well not have liked what I posted, thought I'm ignorant or naive, that's your prerogative. But you have to agree that there's nothing offensive about it. Yes?

The reason I'm posting this is because my council deem this vehicle's parking as not illegal until the wheels touch the paving slabs. Seems a bit ambiguous to me. I always thought there was a blanket ban, certainly in London where I am, for wheels being up on the kerb. But they're saying the 'kerb' is ok, i.e, the long concrete stones. Oh well, it means I won't get a ticket if I decided to do the same.

So you could have done one of two things. Either not posted anything, or said something in a friendly manner, perhaps something constructive.

Here's what you actually did instead:

Op comes to motors for validation.

Motors correctly kicks him in the mouth because this isnt gd.

Op cries at being picked on in motors.

I hope im long gone before im such a plank to bother my local councils with such wastes of time.

Hahah chill out buttercup, Motors is obviously not the sub forum for you if you cant take people calling you out on your crap.

It's obvious you have a lot of growing up to do.

 

[Diddums]

I hope im long gone before im such a plank to bother my local councils with such wastes of time.

So do we.

 

[Diddums]

Technically it's illegal, but unless it's causing an obstruction I don't understand why you'd be concerned about it tbh.

He openly admitted to it being a petty tit-for-tat thing so quite why some of the posters in this thread are getting on their moral high horses is beyond me. I will bet my bottom dollar that every single one of them is guilty of somehow, some way doing the same at some point.

Regardless. As I said I've had a ticket for having a wheel slightly on a kerb, byt then I've also had a ticket for parking 504mm from the kerb when the max is 500mm. Our parking nazis are the real deal.

 

[wedrum]

Excellent would read again

 

[Hotwired]

He openly admitted to it being a petty tit-for-tat thing so quite why some of the posters in this thread are getting on their moral high horses is beyond me. I will bet my bottom dollar that every single one of them is guilty of somehow, some way doing the same at some point.

Regardless. As I said I've had a ticket for having a wheel slightly on a kerb, byt then I've also had a ticket for parking 504mm from the kerb when the max is 500mm. Our parking nazis are the real deal.

You're actually allowed to parallel park 50cm from the kerb?