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If you can push a double buggy with two small children and some shopping up the 25% gradient from the town centre to our house, without having a heart attack, I’ll sell my car 😂
How much shopping. Might be worth it to see you sell your car. 😉
Fair play for coming back and saying so.
I've just had a weekend in Dumfries and Galloway, and it's still got a lot of 30 zones. Feels like everything is coming at you too fast and 20mph is just *nicer* for all.
I've then just walked into Carlisle station and cannot get my head around some of the pavement parking. Blocking, squeezed on and forcing pedestrians to squeeze between house/shop or onto a city centre road.
More 20mph and less pavement parking would be great thing for all of us.
the implementation of Scottish Government’s anti pavement laws. But I was wrong – it has on the whole worked exceptionally well.
Well, that's good news and well done to the SNP and the councils that enforce it.
Friday morning walking, I’m following a lady into town. Outside an MOT garage a delivery driver has parked sideways on the full pavement, this lady and I are forced onto the uneven garage forecourt. This is all slightly downhill. She trips over a small lump of concrete and with momentum falls onto her chest. I ran and tried to help, the van driver runs out and doesn’t really do anything, within a minute she’s able to sit up, she’s covered in dust and dirt from her face right down to her feet. The garage owner was great and took her to get cleaned up. No injury but it could have been so much worse. Rightly or wrongly I told the driver that this was his fault and he should have parked on the forecourt. Something needs to change.
the implementation of Scottish Government’s anti pavement laws. But I was wrong – it has on the whole worked exceptionally well.
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Well, that’s good news and well done to the SNP and the councils that enforce it.
Aye - its good.
Round my way its also been done by marking roads so parking spaces are obvious and making you pay 8-5 mon friday for parking. But a definite change round here.
I’ve just had a weekend in Dumfries and Galloway, and it’s still got a lot of 30 zones. Feels like everything is coming at you too fast and 20mph is just *nicer* for all.
I’ve then just walked into Carlisle station and cannot get my head around some of the pavement parking. Blocking, squeezed on and forcing pedestrians to squeeze between house/shop or onto a city centre road.More 20mph and less pavement parking would be great thing for all of us.
The whole of my town (Ottery St Mary in Devon) is going to 20mph in a couple of months. Can't come soon enough, as people drive like idiots around town. I know it doesn't cure all the issues, but if most people adhere to it it slows everyone down.
At a Brownie and Guides fete yesterday I had to sit and listen to a couple of bell-ends at a table next to us moaning and going on and on (and on!) about it. I very nearly gave them a piece of my mind, but my wife's death stare stopped me 😆
The thing is with the dickish delivery van park g is if they didn't they'd not meet the targets. The delivery company is the one that should take the blame but instead they will just dock the workers wages of any fines.
No pavement parking but the parcel box for our industrial estate has a layby but over the last 2 months the workers in a nearby unit have been parking in it instead of in their car park because it's closer. Their wipers gets lifted up every day when I then have to parkup on the road to drop off parcels.