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What are your throughts on pavement parking? (www.gov.uk)

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[–] GiveOver 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Absolutely impossible to implement where I live up North. Half of the town's cars would have to go. Which I'm all in favour of, but there's a lot to sort out first (e.g. public transport and cycling infrastructure). Or I suppose we could put up a bunch of parking garages everywhere but that would be awful.

[–] Mex 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

around me there are quite a lot of cars that sit on the street and never seem to move, getting those off the road as as a start would help. Also plenty of places I see where there is plenty of space to park fully on the road, but people park on the pavement by habit

[–] GiveOver 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I just had an adventure on Google Street View dropping into random neighbourhoods, and it varies a lot by town. Some places like Leeds and Sheffield had wide roads that would have perfectly coped with a ban on pavement parking. Other places it looks impossible. Here's a place I dropped into in Bolton. Those people would really suffer from a ban. I guess this is my main issue with it, you're disproportionately affecting the less well-off. The middle class will be fine with their driveways and spacious estates.

[–] Mex 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

would making it easier for people not to use their cars help? Better public transport, closer services etc? Do a lot of people have multiple cars just in case they sometimes need it.

[–] GiveOver 2 points 3 months ago

Hopefully public transport helps, that's the dream. Maybe self driving electric cars make taxis cheap and people stop owning cars, who knows! I wouldn't expect the people on the crowded terraced estates to be the multiple car owning type, maybe two cars per household.

[–] frazorth 1 points 3 months ago

Not even "just in case". Where I live, there is one bus into town at 9:30, and a second at 3:30. Completely unhelpful for anyone who wanted to get to work.

We need significant better public transport for it to even be am option, at the moment its just a token.