Parking rights

[ailbhe]

Huh. At some point last night, someone lifted the trike off the parking space in the road and left it outside my next-door-neighbour's front door, blocking access to that house. I have no idea why, because moving the trike doesn't create enough space to park a car - though I suppose it could be related to the incredibly loud motorbike I heard revving up at length this morning.

I wish we could buy some sort of parking permit so that motorised vehicle owners wouldn't resent our parking in front of our house so much... But we can't. So idiots will just move it out of their way because of the perception that roads are for cars and cars alone. It's not even a matter of who pays for it, because a resident's parking permit is free. Bah.

However, a very nice man moved it back off the footpath and into the road, because I went out to see where it was and he was there; he'd already moved it *along* the footpath so that it wasn't blocking the doorway any more.

Oh well. Perhaps in future we'll park it near a drain cover and chain it to that.

Comments

[glitzfrau.livejournal.com]

Holy jesus. I do not have words for the wrong. I am shaking with rage on your behalf.

[hfnuala.livejournal.com]

This is the major argument against us getting a trike. Parking is cut throat on our street and I worry that it would get wrecked by someone who felt it was using space which was 'rightfully' theirs.

[gloriap.livejournal.com]

Is a trike a motorized three-wheel vehicle? Whatever it is, the action was outrageous. Is there any way to attach a very loud alarm that would go off whenever the trike was moved to scare the perpetrators? (Yeah, it would wake the rest of the neighborhood, too.)

I can't remember whether you own or rent your house. Do you have space in your front yard to pave a small area for off-street parking?

[ailbhe]

No, it's not motorised. If it were motorised it would be registered, and then we could get a free parking permit for it.

We do not have a front yard. There's just enough space outside our front wall for the bins / trash cans, and a small hedge. We can squeeze a pushbike in there.

[flybabydizzy.livejournal.com]

Why can't you get a parking permit snd used it for the trike? Does it have to be for a car registered to your address? Padlocking it to a drain might do, along with an alarm - I have an idea how to rig it.

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

damn, that's infuriating. fscking motorists and their sense of entitlement.