[Misc] How many f*****g cars do your next door neighbours have between them?

[Wrong-Direction]

Trade vans are a real issue on new build you get local laws sometimes preventing this and caravans but these last only a few years and usually end once the development has finished creating a false impression for the purchaser!

Oh sorry I'll just parachute to work shall I

 

[portlock seagull]

I've got 6 cars ,my work van and 3 motorcycles, not that its any of your effing business.

If you’re parking them all on the public highway you don’t own, and if it’s causing a problem…then you make it so. Sorry, but that’s the reality.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

I’ve got to be honest mate, any income that the council can make after the clusterfucking the Green Party did to our council i’ll back as long as they can be trusted to to spend wisely….

I agree with you BUT the council have more money from parking charges, permits, fines etc than they can spend. A large chunk goes on bus passes but the rest is spent on useless road schemes ( see the new cycle lane at Preston Circus as a prime example ). They make changes to road layouts for the sake of it - OSR and Sackville being a prime example of just spending the spare money and bringing massive queues. I have as much faith in our council spending the excess wisely ( *** cough *** potholes ) as I do in Putin sticking his hands up and saying he got the Ukraine wrong.

 

[Happy Exile]

It’s mostly ok round me but one couple have two enormous SUVs, one of which pokes about 40cm past the edge of their driveway over the pavement which isn’t wide anyway, and the other of which takes up about 1.5 spaces between dropped kerbs so almost no normal cars will fit either side of it. Like OPs neighbours they regularly complain about the lack of parking and once even suggested a bus stop should be made available for parking at the end of the timetable each day.

 

[Chicken Run]

I agree with you BUT the council have more money from parking charges, permits, fines etc than they can spend. A large chunk goes on bus passes but the rest is spent on useless road schemes ( see the new cycle lane at Preston Circus as a prime example ). They make changes to road layouts for the sake of it - OSR and Sackville being a prime example of just spending the spare money and bringing massive queues. I have as much faith in our council spending the excess wisely ( *** cough *** potholes ) as I do in Putin sticking his hands up and saying he got the Ukraine wrong.

All fair points, the eejat who designed that Preston Road cycle lane needs sectioning, they’ve actually created traffic jams at 10:30 in the morning down there

 

[BrightonCottager]

We have one car, as do the immediate neighbours. There are a few 'trades' with an extra van / car but mainly one car households. Even with residents parking permits. It can be tricky finding a space. We need more of those bike shelters though.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

It isn't too bad immediately next door (two on the left and one on the right), although across the street has a car, a work van and a camper van. It does get a bit silly further down where somebody has an enormous f***-off caravan parked on what used to be their front garden.

Kids with cars seems to be another issue.

 

[METALMICKY]

Thanks your lucky stars you don't live opposite a primary school, and down the road from a high school and college!

All considerations before you purchase a property obviously

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Where I used to live on a terraced street, I had to park outside somebody else's house for a few days as the council were relaying the pavement outside mine and had left the slabs outside on the road until they got round to actually doing something. The twat banged on my door, demanded I move the car because he "owned" that part of the road, and when I said no, then tried to drag me into the street for a fight. He then met Ms Cat who gave him some very choice and terse Geordie'isms, before disappearing into the night and we never saw him again.

My car stayed where it was.

 

[GT49er]

I'm 68 and I've never owned a car in my life. Amazingly, I've managed to be gainfully employed all my life, brought up two kids and led an active social life. So, yes, it is "simples".

The road I live in is pretty packed with cars and sometimes people need to park in the next street. But we don't have car, the house on our left doesn't have a car, the house next to that has one and the house next to that is currently being converted into two houses. One car at the moment but if those five houses had an average of three cars each, where would they do on a road that's already pretty full?

Lucky you.

 

[dsr-burnley]

If you live on a road and have 5 cars, 2 speedboats and a couple of trade vans in your household with no or little off road parking to accommodate then you’re not poor. You just need to move or stop buying vehicles and trailers you’ve nowhere to put them. But the PUBLIC highway (clues in the name) ain’t the place at everyone else’s inconvenience.

Surely there are people who park on the public road but do not have 5 cars and 2 speedboats? I agree that people who park loads of cars and get in everyone's way should be stopped from doing it. But I disagree with your suggestion that everyone who parks even a single car on the road should be paying 4 times the road tax.

 

[ozzygull]

That’s fine you can get on with your day, however if you’ve been in a wheelchair or push one then you’re outlook would be very different I can assure you. I’m constantly having to ‘educate’ selfish twats (including those that park without a blue badge in disabled bays) and nearly always they just look at you with indifference or become confrontational. Maybe one in a hundred apologise. It’s a massive problem. As if being disabled isn’t hard enough. If anyone reading this thread thinks differently now then brilliant. Sadly I doubt it. People are inherently rude arrogant and increasingly violent as their default stance these days. It didn’t used to be like, and I wish there was a solution. Sterilisation probably…

I absolutely agree people parking on the pavement piss me off. I trample on their front garden rather than walk in the road. We don’t have any wheelchair users in our road which is why I don’t bother getting all shirty with them if we did I am sure someone on the roads WhatsApp group would bring it up as an issue.

So I am not being selfish by ignoring it I just don’t know anyone that it is being affecting by it as we don’t get used as a pass through for anyone not living here.

 

[portlock seagull]

Surely there are people who park on the public road but do not have 5 cars and 2 speedboats? I agree that people who park loads of cars and get in everyone's way should be stopped from doing it. But I disagree with your suggestion that everyone who parks even a single car on the road should be paying 4 times the road tax.

That’s why I said per household. Only to impact those of us with 4-5 vehicles in our name and using the road as a free car park.

 

[clapham_gull]

Road Tax was abolished in 1937, but I digress.

It's illegal to park on the pavement in London which is why you very rarely see it.

Should this be rolled out ro the rest of the country?

 

[clapham_gull]

I absolutely agree people parking on the pavement piss me off.

We have a bonkers but highly efficient local counciller round here. Park on the pavement or as a business / resident dump your rubbish in the road not only do you get a fine you end up outed on social media.

If they have their smart phone on them it's basically zero tolerance.

 

[Nitram]

Road Tax was abolished in 1937, but I digress.

It's illegal to park on the pavement in London which is why you very rarely see it.

Should this be rolled out ro the rest of the country?

Is it not an offence under the Highway Code? More about enforcement.

 

[clapham_gull]

Is it not an offence under the Highway Code? More about enforcement.

Criminal offence in London, that's my point which it isn't in the rest of the country.

 

[clapham_gull]

For the benefit of @portlock seagull

Wandsworth councillor Jo.

I think the modern expression is f*** about find out.

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[South Stand Bonfire]

So if you needed say a plumber…urgently like they’d have to walk/cycle to you….with tool bag?

It’s what most of them do now. You are always charged a minimum of 1 hour. 55 Mins travel time. 5 Minute job.

 

[clapham_gull]

If I had my way (if I became dictator as part of a military coup), I'd tax the buggery out of London drivers, limit their speed to 5 miles an hour, charge them £500 a day to park, have a lottery once a week fining random motorists £50 (just because) and the ownership of a Range Rover (or similar) a criminal offence.

Compulsory therapy for those just thinking about it.

A "big shop" a thought crime.

The money raised would be used to subsidise petrol in rural areas where people actually need a car to get by.

In fact you would only be allowed to own a car in London if you buy one for something in need in a rural area with rubbish public transport.

Lastly, I'd tell the cyclists they are bloody next if they don't behave.