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In London, England, where the roads are narrow, the parking spaces are limited and we have plenty of availability of vans that can actually fit things in, we still get these a*holes with their unnecessary large pick up trucks made for a road system completely different to ours...

These spaces are wider than usual and long enough to fit them but they still have to park like w*nkers blocking the only footpath around!

I mean, I have a 5 door hatchback and know that my car overhangs the back wheels, as does any primary school kid drawing a car...

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That should count as parking on the pavement violation imo

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Where I live, if the vehicle doesn't fit inside the lines, it's illegally parked. Even if it's the mirrors/bumper/hitch.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So many people think "if my wheels are in the space it's ok" and it drives me insane

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, it happens here too, because noone really reports illegally parked vehicles.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I report illegally parked cars like a full Karen because my road is very dangerous to pull out from. But no one ever does anything about it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Where I live cars are like a natural creatures of the urban environment with their own will and can't be blamed. Stroller goes on the street very often because of it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Even some people I know try to defend drivers who double park and block the bike parking when I complain about them.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

I don't know what the laws are like in the UK, but I would be surprised, if it did not. Governments don't build wide footpaths for the fun of it. They exist to allow parents with prams/strollers as well as folks in wheelchairs to pass. When someone blocks the path, no matter the acrobatics they undertake to not actually have wheels on the path, that still makes the path unusable for its intended purpose.