Growing number of cars parking on wrong side of the road

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alasta

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#3263609 23-Jul-2024 15:34

I used to get false positive forward collision warnings on my Mazda, but I seem to recall I found a setting somewhere that allowed me to decrease the sensitivity. The system is not well calibrated for narrow windy Wellington streets with cars parked all over them.

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#3263611 23-Jul-2024 15:36

jonathan18:
alasta:

Personally, I think people have a social responsibility to report nuisance parking when they see it in their local neighbourhood. When councils start getting frequent complaints from particular areas then they might start being more proactive.

Yeah, I agree but it can be slow to get results, and those results can be mixed!

As an example: we had someone around the corner who constantly parked over the footpath, typically fully blocking it. This $%#$%s me off more than nearly every other parking violation as it’s so disrespectful to, and creates problems and risks for, pedestrians and others using the footpath - forcing them onto the road to get past. After regular reporting to the council I did seem to finally get somewhere - she now doesn’t park often on the footpath, but does almost always park on the side of the road facing the wrong way! I’ve chalked that up as a partial victory and moved on…

I do this for some things (eg if I see a water leak on the street or real estate signage on the council road reserve), but if you do it in a small town where there is 1-2 degrees of separation, they are going to find out who reported it. NZs culture is not to dob people in. Unless it can be anonymously which I don't think can occur as they always ask for you details and never give the option to report anonymously.

In terms of this issue of people parking in the wrong direction on the road, I see this now almost day when driving so not practical to report it. The police should be ticketing as they see it. $500 instant fines would work.

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#3263743 23-Jul-2024 21:46

We currently have 2 cars for 250 metres of both sides of the Street.

You guessed it!

BOTH WRONG WAY Parked!!!!!!!!!!

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#3263814 24-Jul-2024 04:50

mattwnz: I do this for some things (eg if I see a water leak on the street or real estate signage on the council road reserve), but if you do it in a small town where there is 1-2 degrees of separation, they are going to find out who reported it.

If by road reserve you're referring to a grass berm in front of a property, what's your objection? The owner trying to sell is probably the person maintaining the council owned berm.

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#3264290 25-Jul-2024 15:51

Bung:

mattwnz: I do this for some things (eg if I see a water leak on the street or real estate signage on the council road reserve), but if you do it in a small town where there is 1-2 degrees of separation, they are going to find out who reported it.

If by road reserve you're referring to a grass berm in front of a property, what's your objection? The owner trying to sell is probably the person maintaining the council owned berm.

It isn't permitted in the district plan and creates on obstruction for pedestrians.This is an area where there is a grass berm but no footpath so the grass berm is the footpath, but they still put the signage across that path reducing it's width. Signage can just go on their fence on their property as that is permitted, and it isn't as though the agents wouldn't be aware of the bylaws.

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#3264366 25-Jul-2024 17:58

Without knowing how wide your berms are I can't comment. Ours are 8m either side of the road. Unless there's a car approaching the pedestrians tend to wander down the sealed road rather than berms.

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#3264481 26-Jul-2024 07:44

Bung:

Without knowing how wide your berms are I can't comment. Ours are 8m either side of the road. Unless there's a car approaching the pedestrians tend to wander down the sealed road rather than berms.

I take it you don't live in Wellington city?!

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#3264501 26-Jul-2024 08:47

When we were in Wellington we had grassed road reserve going from 6m wide on 1 side to 8m on other side. Not every street in Wellington was originally formed as a walking or horse track.

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#3264503 26-Jul-2024 08:52

jonathan18:

I take it you don't live in Wellington city?!

Living in a city is so 90's.

I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to.

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#3266629 31-Jul-2024 15:20

It's not quite the same thing, but it's good to see this sort of thing getting a little bit of traction in the media.

Woman with low vision having to walk into traffic as cars illegally park over footpaths

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#3266729 31-Jul-2024 23:17

Behodar:
It's not quite the same thing, but it's good to see this sort of thing getting a little bit of traction in the media.

Woman with low vision having to walk into traffic as cars illegally park over footpaths

She needs a sturdy sharp point at the tip of her cane.
A few sturdy taps against a car whilst navigating a car
parked across the footpath would soon make the point ...

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#3266737 1-Aug-2024 00:06

SepticSceptic:
She needs a sturdy sharp point at the tip of her cane.
A few sturdy taps against a car whilst navigating a car
parked across the footpath would soon make the point ...

Many cars now have cameras so probably not the best idea.

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#3266743 1-Aug-2024 06:57

Behodar:

It's not quite the same thing, but it's good to see this sort of thing getting a little bit of traction in the media.

Woman with low vision having to walk into traffic as cars illegally park over footpaths

Until I was on crutches with a busted leg for months, I'd not appreciated how inconvenient this is. When you're unsteady and you need to step into the road to go round a car it's a complete PIA. I'm sympathetic for anyone who deals with this full time.

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#3266747 1-Aug-2024 07:43

Agreed. I had a temporary disability last year so I appreciate it too!

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#3266916 1-Aug-2024 11:14

I am perfectly able bodied and still find blocked footpaths to be a major problem in my daily life, so I can't imagine how bad it must be for the elderly or disabled.

Personally I think everyone has a social responsibility to report footpath parking to the local council when they see it. Councils don't seem to be proactive with enforcement of this, but at least in Wellington they are reasonably good at dealing with it reactively.

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