Now, I realise there's nothing we can really do about it (it would be the council's job to fine people if anything) and this moan won't achieve much either. But I'm more just wondering if anyone else has noticed an increase in selfishness from people parking their cars on curbs?
I live in the Ossett area and I realise there are some roads where curbing is pretty much necessary due to the roads being so narrow. It's still not ideal for people walking, but I understand it's necessary. If an emergency vehicle or something ever needed to get down one of those roads then at least they'll have space. This I can turn a blind eye to.
However I've noticed that even on main roads, people just park their whole car on the pavement and force people that are walking out onto the road. I've seen people doing it near blind bends and all sorts.
Parents dropping their kids off at school/nursery block pavements (you'd think they'd have more sense with kids being about), people going into local cafe and things do too.
The crazy thing is that it doesn't even help the flow of traffic most of the time. If a car is only a quarter or half curbed on a main road, traffic will still have to stop and give way to oncoming traffic most of the time anyway. I know I usually have to when I'm out driving. So there's literally no gain, it just blocks walkways.
I did catch someone when I was driving past the "Wired Whippet" the other day (fantastic cafe by the way, so certainly nothing against them, but it does seem to be a hotspot for people curbing) and they covered pretty much the entire pavement on the side of the road next to the park. I had my window down at the time and did shout "you wouldn't get a pushchair through there would you!" As I was going past, but I doubt it came out as anything sensical and the fella just looked at me with a gormless face.
Anyway, I just wondered what other people's thoughts were. It seems to be getting worse and whilst I know there's nothing we can do about it other than moan... I just wanted to know if I'm alone with this as everyone seems to do it apart from me!
