Pavement parking ban!

[HarryM1BYT]

Originally Posted by Dorset Bob

Honest John has done a news feature on the pavement parking here

Nice looking ZT!

Anyone here own a red MG BU51 HZW ?

Yesterday, waiting for a bus at a well marked bus stop with clear yellow line and no waiting except buses, buses needing the space every few minutes - One of those massive Post Office parcel vans pulled in to the bus bay, the only place available for buses to pull in without blocking the road. This outside the local Post Office, which has its own parking at the rear. He got a ticket - well done that Parking Services man.

Single and double yellow lines are spreading through the village, because of the commuter all day parking on local streets. The more lines have been put in place, the more the 'parkers' have moved out to sometimes even less acceptable places to park.

Most recently, they parked on a stretch of busy arterial road, restricting it for through traffic, quickly dealt with by yellow lines, that then moved the parking further along the same road, to an even narrower section of road, a section of road outside where I had once lived some 40 years ago. Even 40 years ago, I would never have thought it sensible to try to park there, restricting a much less busy main road. I would have expected a fine for obstruction. Now they seem not to issue obstruction fines, just parking fines and only where/when parking is prohibited by specific signs. What happened to common sense?