Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Blocked pavements on Wightman Road/Alroy Road
Now that the weather is occasionally nice, I like to take my son to the park in his pushchair. However, I often find the pavement blocked by vehicles outside the garage where Alroy Road meets Wightman Road - last week there was a recovery lorry parked right across the pavement, which meant I had to cross over at a point with heavy traffic and not great visibility.
Is the garage allowed to leave its vehicles blocking the pavement? And if (as I suspect) it isn't, who is responsible for asking them to sort it out?
In a related issue, there are often vehicles blocking the pavement further up Wightman Road, on the bit that is bordered by Jewson's yard. There are parking bays allowing vehicles to encroach onto the pavement, but many drivers ignore these and block access to pushchair users (and presumably wheelchair users). Is this the responsibility of traffic wardens to police?
Is the garage allowed to leave its vehicles blocking the pavement? And if (as I suspect) it isn't, who is responsible for asking them to sort it out?
In a related issue, there are often vehicles blocking the pavement further up Wightman Road, on the bit that is bordered by Jewson's yard. There are parking bays allowing vehicles to encroach onto the pavement, but many drivers ignore these and block access to pushchair users (and presumably wheelchair users). Is this the responsibility of traffic wardens to police?
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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As long as your front wind shield is off the highway, you're OK. Sucks huh.
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Permalink Reply by Danzigger on
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That does suck. Another example of the extent to which cars dominate our environment.
Phooey!
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Permalink Reply by Kate Lloyd on
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I agree completely - that stretch is tricky for going to and from nursery with pushchair. But it's not clear what one's recourse is when cars are allowed to park there, but they choose to park outside the lines painted on the pavement. Presumably there would be an uproar from drivers if traffic wardens enforced parking within the lines on the pavement strictly...
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I think we can get them towed. Should we place notes on their windshields for a month and then find a towing company?
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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Normally they do enforce parking within the lines.
Complain to the wardens. I've been agitating about parking on double yellow lines near me and yesterday I saw that they had started to issue tickets.
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Permalink Reply by Phil M on
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I did try complaining to a warden the other day. He seemed not to understand the problem, saying it was OK to park on the pavement if it was outside your own house (uh?). I pointed out that nobody lived in Jewson's yard, so his made-up law didn't apply in this instance, so he said he might take a look later if he had time (we were all of 100 yards away at the time). I very much doubt he took the trouble to look.
I'll try again with a different warden next time...
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Plenty of us have tickets for parking outside our own houses!
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Perhaps the mistake you made was parking on the road - if you'd been on the pavement you'd have been fine!
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Thing is, I very much doubt they are Jewson's customers - there's ample parking in their yard, and when I come home from the park it's usually the same culprits as on my journey there, so I suspect people are parked there for quite some time, and surely nobody can be that fascinated by bags of gravel?
My guess is it's people parking there for the station, or maybe residents from over the road.
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