| Comment | It's become a real exception to see *any* dropped kerbs without cars blocking them in my area. Practically all junction crossing points across the neighbourhood have cars parked at or on them too, meaning you need to walk on the road to simply keep walking ahead in a straight line.
For anyone thinking "oh no what a tragedy", it affects a lot of things: With no free dropped kerbs, wheelchair users can't leave the pavement and cross to the other side. People with prams need to push them onto the road. Fundamentally we're talking about cars parked in the path of pedestrians being normalised and somehow viewed as not a problem.
Junction corners are meant to be kept clear, and usually have double yellows showing this, to allow fire engines to turn onto streets. It's completely selfish to park like this and definitely getting worse. The only answer to this is expanding existing district parking zones to cover all residential areas. |
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