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    New kerb rules in England will leave motorists with ‘nowhere to park’

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    1. Lonyo on

      Tough shit. Buy smaller cars.  

      Thee “need” to park on the kerb or have larger spaces is because people are buying ever larger vehicles and would block the roads if they didn’t park on the kerbs, or can’t fit in regular spaces or on driveways. So tough shit. Stop buying oversized vehicles.

      We have two cars. Both fit on our drive and in parking spaces.

      I mostly cycle to work and get held up all the time because of roads full of parked cars with not enough road space left for two cars to drive so I’ve side has to stop. Buy fucking smaller cars. Stop causing traffic with oversized shit

    2. NuPNua on

      Why is the Birmingham Mail reporting on London? We have such good public transport here you don’t need to kerb park, you can get most places on the tube or by bus.

    3. StinkyWeezle on

      Shout out to all the new build estates near me that have one off-street space per overpriced 3 bedroom house and a road narrow enough that it would be blocked if you didn’t park up on the curb.

    4. Hey-u-in-the-bushes on

      The one aspect that I see people over look when parking their car on the curb is how much it can block vulnerable people such as those in wheelchairs or mobility vehicles. For an able person it’s not that much more than an annoyance but for those with issues it can be a case of pushing them into a busy road to get around.

    5. ___a1b1 on

      The article is absolute bollocks as it’s not even about England. It’s a campaign group lobbying for changes in London.

    8. Main_Stop_6464 on

      This is for streets in London, not some backwater residential street that’s one car wide.

    9. Brexit-Broke-Britain on

      Too much space is given to cars already. Get them off the pavement. Roads are for driving on. They are not private parking spaces.

    10. Flimsy_Client7003 on

      Well that’s great news for the 10’s of thousands of terraced estates without parking due to design.

    11. Civil_opinion24 on

      They’d do much better to enforce the existing rule that says you cannot obstruct the pavement.

    12. Buzzinggg on

      I think a big problem that a lot of people are missing is that if we had open car insurance (insure the car then anyone can drive or family policy as standard) we could cut down on stupid amount of cars

    13. OwlCaptainCosmic on

      It’s a shame that many people will find it harder, but we need fewer drivers.

    14. Unsey on

      What an atrociously misleading headline and article this is. It is not an enacted policy change, and it’s not applicable to England.

      A charity has asked London Boroughs to allocate 25% of kerbside space to “sustainable uses”. This is such a clickbait headline.

    15. im-also-here on

      I looked at this the other day 25 minutes for me to drive 20 miles. Public transport 1hr 56 2 buses and walk 3 miles. Wonder why I have a car

    16. Expensive_Try869 on

      Why is the Birmingham mail writing articles about parking regulation in London?

    17. CongratsMate on

      Good.

      A large proportion of people have 1 child and then suddenly think they need an off-roading all terrain SUV as they drive down the road to drop their child off at school and then do the weekly shop that would fit comfortably in the boot of a 2001 Ford Focus.

      This should have come in sooner.

    18. Sensitive_Turn1824 on

      I live on a new build estate, parking wasn’t considered when they built it, get as many houses in as possible

    19. Oldschool-fool on

      It will not work where I live , park on the road & no chance of bin trucks , vans , deliveries etc .

    20. Walton_paul on

      Many roads around the greater Southend area have demarkated pavement parking the kerbs have been dropped professionally and if you park further onto the pavement you can get a ticket

    21. papercut2008uk on

      That’s not the only problem that will occur. Many roads will become impassable because of how narrow they are for 2 way traffic, some roads even too narrow for one way traffic and parked cars.

    22. deadadventure on

      Yes well said! Let’s remove a primary mode of transportation for many families that use their cars to get to work!

    23. Gatecrasher1234 on

      Let’s be Tokyo

      No dedicated parking space, you can’t own a car.

      We had a person renting a house on our street. They had five cars, none of which went in the garages. Also the sons often had girlfriends stay overnight. Most of the cars got parked on the street in front of neighbour’s houses. Some of them got stickers from the bin men police as the lorry couldn’t get down the road.

      We weren’t sorry to see them go.