Parking parallel instead of in driveways in estates

veryangryman · 18-07-2015 06:41AM #1

A lot of visitors to my local estate have this strange tendency. I know one should not sweat the small stuff but it drives me mental that they do not use the vacant spaces in driveways and waste space on already narrow roadway.

There's a good lot of people on this forum. Surely some of you have this annoying habit. Can you explain yourselves?

AndyBoBandy · 18-07-2015 06:45AM

What makes my (mothers) estate even worse is the doctors surgery at the entrance to the estate!!! Always jam packed with cars!

In answer to your question though, maybe they want to keep the driveway clear for the kids to play in?

Badly Drunk Boy · 18-07-2015 06:59AM

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

In answer to your question though, maybe they want to keep the driveway clear for the kids to play in?

I don't think that's it at all. People are just selfish, not using their driveways and blocking up the estates instead. In my parents' estate anyway, people park outside the gardens instead of their driveways whether they have kids are not. It's ridiculous how much they block the roads with cars trying to move by having to slalom by, and stop/starting when a car comes from the other direction.

I was visiting last week, and thought it was strange that the binman was collecting the rubbish in the evening. Apparently that morning there were so many cars that they couldn't fit up the road through the parked cars cluttering up the place while the driveways were clear.

kneemos · 18-07-2015 07:17AM

Your estate is too narrow.Hope it's not a new one.

Menas · 18-07-2015 07:51AM

On our estate some people think it is ok to park with their car half in the driveway - half on the footpath (if there is another car already in the driveway).
So if you are walking past you have to step on to the road.
I have 'accidentally' scraped a pram off a few of those cars over the years.

kneemos · 18-07-2015 07:58AM

Menas wrote: »

On our estate some people think it is ok to park with their car half in the driveway - half on the footpath (if there is another car already in the driveway).
So if you are walking past you have to step on to the road.
I have 'accidentally' scraped a pram off a few of those cars over the years.

I'd quite happily set fire to a car parked on the footpath.

Piggy ignorant.

Del2005 · 18-07-2015 07:59AM

veryangryman wrote: »

A lot of visitors to my local estate have this strange tendency. I know one should not sweat the small stuff but it drives me mental that they do not use the vacant spaces in driveways and waste space on already narrow roadway.

There's a good lot of people on this forum. Surely some of you have this annoying habit. Can you explain yourselves?

If I'm visiting a house which I know has a car I'll always park on the road, it's not my driveway so starting a car to move it from a driveway to the road is bad for the car, and environment, when the home owner returns.

What you should be complaining about is the householders who never use their driveway, but I suppose you would like them as the once in a blue moon visitor will be able to use the driveway ðŸ˜‰

philstar · 18-07-2015 09:36AM

makes for a quicker departure i suppose

also if your backing out of a driveway theres a chance you might hit some kid playing on the road, so there's pluses & minuses to it

veryangryman · 18-07-2015 09:40AM

Del2005 wrote: »

If I'm visiting a house which I know has a car I'll always park on the road, it's not my driveway so starting a car to move it from a driveway to the road is bad for the car, and environment, when the home owner returns.
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A valid point. However in most cases the car is parked in front of the entrance to driveway so this would not be possible. So the visitor is even inconveniencing her host.

LollipopJimmy · 18-07-2015 09:42AM

Menas wrote: »

On our estate some people think it is ok to park with their car half in the driveway - half on the footpath (if there is another car already in the driveway).
So if you are walking past you have to step on to the road.
I have 'accidentally' scraped a pram off a few of those cars over the years.

Somebody parking a car badly doesn't mean you can scrape their car. People who purposely damage another person's property are just scum. If I caught somebody scraping my car I would be onto the Guards straight away which is incidentally where you can report obstructions on a footpath

inforfun · 18-07-2015 09:42AM

Wasnt such a bad thing if it didnt come with the absolute need these people seem to have of parking in front of their own place and not a meter further away. Neighbour across the street doing the same which leaves gaps between cars that you hardly can get through in a normal sized car.

Any bigger van or truck that needs to deliver something or indeed the binman can forget about getting through these places.

Drumpot · 18-07-2015 09:43AM

Some asshole neighbour parks both their cars on the road so they can use their front for leisure...

What's the problem I hear some people ask? A few years ago a child was dragged under a car after running in between their two cars and getting hit by a moving car. It creates a blind spot for people driving past them...

We have driveways for a reason. If owners choose to make roads more dangerous for children because they want more space for themselves they are purely selfish , irresponsible and ignorant (that's as nice as I can put it).

punisher5112 · 18-07-2015 09:45AM

98% of the time it is down to the person in the house believing the road space outside their house is there one and don't want anyone else to park there.

So answer is they park there to stop others...

RayM · 18-07-2015 09:45AM

kneemos wrote: »

I'd quite happily set fire to a car parked on the footpath.

I tried to squeeze past a car on a pavement once, and accidentally* smashed its side mirror.

*My elbow sort of 'slipped' a couple of times.

kneemos · 18-07-2015 09:48AM

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

Somebody parking a car badly doesn't mean you can scrape their car. People who purposely damage another person's property are just scum. If I caught somebody scraping my car I would be onto the Guards straight away which is incidentally where you can report obstructions on a footpath

Cars on footpaths quite often make me stumble and squash wing mirrors.
Must be more careful.

5uspect · 18-07-2015 09:49AM

It just shows a complete inability for proper planning in Ireland. Let's build high density housing estates where we'll assume every house will have a family with one car, where instead many people houseshare with two or three cars.

Add general ignorance to this and you get the twat down the road from me who parks his precious Golf on the footpath. Not half on half off, it's perched exactly on it.

Dionysius2 · 18-07-2015 09:50AM

Down my way, I tend a green patch outside my gate and along the public road. I cut the grass and trim the edges and plant a few flowers.
What gets my goat entirely relates to the boneheads who drive up with gay abandon and have no compunction about driving up onto the tended grass and flowers as if it was a parking space reserved there for them. Is it pure ignorance (I think so) or do they have some sense of entitlement driven by a particular view of life ? My neighbours on either side rely on an assortment of cement blocks, boulders and stakes to keep the vandals at bay and I fear I will be forced to follow suit.

Mint Sauce · 18-07-2015 09:58AM

Every estate I have lived in, people have used their drives to park their cars.

philstar wrote: »

makes for a quicker departure i suppose

also if your backing out of a driveway theres a chance you might hit some kid playing on the road, so there's pluses & minuses to it

One reason why you back into your drive, that and so so can also see traffic safely when driving out.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 18-07-2015 10:01AM

veryangryman wrote: »

A lot of visitors to my local estate have this strange tendency. I know one should not sweat the small stuff but it drives me mental that they do not use the vacant spaces in driveways and waste space on already narrow roadway.

There's a good lot of people on this forum. Surely some of you have this annoying habit. Can you explain yourselves?

If a visitor to an estate I would never dream of parking in somebody's driveway any more than I would park blocking a gate. Driveway is private property, roadway public.

flazio · 18-07-2015 10:03AM

philstar wrote: »

makes for a quicker departure i suppose

also if your backing out of a driveway theres a chance you might hit some kid playing on the road, so there's pluses & minuses to it

So back IN to the driveway and then drive out.
Perhaps someone could get onto the council and get double yellow lines painted.

Conor Bourke · 18-07-2015 10:09AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8k1d8uX9Gw

philstar · 18-07-2015 10:09AM

flazio wrote: »

So back IN to the driveway and then drive out.
Perhaps someone could get onto the council and get double yellow lines painted.

i meant as a visitor to an estate

Bailey Young Lawyer wrote: »

If a visitor to an estate I would never dream of parking in somebody's driveway any more than I would park blocking a gate. Driveway is private property, roadway public.

well unless you knew the person you were visiting, in that case its ok to park in their driveway

bisounours · 18-07-2015 10:09AM

Mint Sauce wrote: »

One reason why you back into your drive, that and so so can also see traffic safely when driving out.

..unless you've a few cars behind you honking away because you've held them up a few seconds more. I back into the driveway if there's no one around but some people don't seem to be happy to wait for me to do that ...

Alexis Sanchez · 18-07-2015 10:17AM

5uspect wrote: »

It just shows a complete inability for proper planning in Ireland. Let's build high density housing estates where we'll assume every house will have a family with one car, where instead many people houseshare with two or three cars.

Add general ignorance to this and you get the twat down the road from me who parks his precious Golf on the footpath. Not half on half off, it's perched exactly on it.

One thing that annoys the fúck out of me is how narrow our roads are. In Dublin City, I understand there's nothing that can be done because the buildings were built long before the car, but any road built after the car was invented, has no excuse for being narrow.

Over in America and down in Australia, the roads are enormous and they find driving crazy over here. There should be regulations to how wide our roads should be, but with corrupt Fianna Fail governments/councils and the Irish being used to narrow roads, I feel it's going to be something we'll regret forever.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 18-07-2015 10:34AM

philstar wrote: »

i meant as a visitor to an estate

well unless you knew the person you were visiting, in that case its ok to park in their driveway

I don't know if someone in the house will want to get their car out or if a resident may be coming home and want to park in the driveway. If invited to park in the driveway, I will. Otherwise I'd rarely do so.

Mint Sauce · 18-07-2015 10:39AM

bisounours wrote: »

..unless you've a few cars behind you honking away because you've held them up a few seconds more. I back into the driveway if there's no one around but some people don't seem to be happy to wait for me to do that ...

Whats the difference in stopping to reverse into your driveway, to stopping to reverse parrallel park?

It only takes a few seconds to do, and if you are reversing out of a drive, you cant see traffic, if someone does stop to let you out, you are again holding up traffic, and if its not a cul de sac, against The ROTR as you are reversing into a main/major road.

Streetwalker · 18-07-2015 10:49AM

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

Somebody parking a car badly doesn't mean you can scrape their car. People who purposely damage another person's property are just scum. If I caught somebody scraping my car I would be onto the Guards straight away which is incidentally where you can report obstructions on a footpath

I've no problem doing it tbh. People who block the footpath from wheelchair users, prams etc...are assholes. Don't do it and you won't have your car keyed.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 18-07-2015 10:51AM

flazio wrote: »

So back IN to the driveway and then drive out.
Perhaps someone could get onto the council and get double yellow lines painted.

No need for double yellows as the law prohibits parking

( d ) on a section of roadway with less than 3 traffic lanes and where traffic sign number RRM 001 [continuous white line] has been provided;

So a continuous white line in an estate and I don't park on the road. Simple.

Valetta · 18-07-2015 10:55AM

bisounours wrote: »

..unless you've a few cars behind you honking away because you've held them up a few seconds more. I back into the driveway if there's no one around but some people don't seem to be happy to wait for me to do that ...

Why not just pull in just before your driveway and wait until there is a break in the traffic. Then back in.

eviltwin · 18-07-2015 10:58AM

Try living next door to my neighbours OP, despite having a driveway large enough for 2 cars they still park right across my driveway blocking me in on a regular basis. :mad:

RayM · 18-07-2015 11:06AM

Mint Sauce wrote: »

Whats the difference in stopping to reverse into your driveway, to stopping to reverse parrallel park?

Nothing more annoying than watching someone attempt to parallel-park in a tight space, nose-first, just because they haven't bothered learning how to reverse properly.

A lot of people don't seem to have the confidence to reverse into a driveway - which is weird, because they have no such 'mental block' when it comes to reversing out. When I was learning to drive, I used to spend hours practising parking, manoeuvring, reversing, etc, in an empty car park.

Parking parallel instead of in driveways in estates

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