The Car Thread

[machin05]

What gets me is it makes no difference to the space on the road. Whether they are half on the pavement or not, there isn't enough room for two cars to pass, so why bother mounting the pavement?

 

[EpsomWolf]

Maybe it makes more space for larger vehicles to get through and less likely they’d lose a wing mirror.

It’s a dead easy fix though especially with new powers, you’ll just need enough people who don’t have cars united with those who do but are fortunate enough to have driveways to support it and it’s job’s done.

 

[machin05]

Won't somebody please think of their wing mirrors!!!???

 

[lemonjelly]

Apologies for the source (terrible website!) But pavement parking in Birmingham is horrendous. It's like the wild west here. Many have converted garages into spare rooms. Many park in the street leaving their drive empty. Many homes have multiple car owners.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/pavement-parking-ban-birmingham-end-33190094

 

[Alan]

Won't somebody please think of their wing mirrors!!!???

Thoughts and prayers

 

[b3h]

I suppose it almost feels like a dick move to park fully in the road. Even though you are allowed to. Just feels like the norm

 

[PuntsWolf]

Potholes, could have gone in the annoy thread but here will do.

Is this how we have to live now and just accept it, or is there any realistic long term solution? Was it always bad but now worse or is it recency bias? Or has traffic increased and maintenance funding/repairs stayed the same or has that genuinely been cut too exacerbating the issue?

Are they resurfacing the roads badly too? They resurfaced the Penn road for the commonewealth games and I remember by the end of the winter it was already falling apart.

 

[leedswolf]

Potholes, could have gone in the annoy thread but here will do.

Is this how we have to live now and just accept it, or is there any realistic long term solution? Was it always bad but now worse or is it recency bias? Or has traffic increased and maintenance funding/repairs stayed the same or has that genuinely been cut too exacerbating the issue?

Are they resurfacing the roads badly too? They resurfaced the Penn road for the commonewealth games and I remember by the end of the winter it was already falling apart.

Annual Local Authority Road Maintenance (ALARM) survey - AIA The Asphalt Industry Alliance https://share.google/xNvQjWSGKlrr9CL2V

 

[lemonjelly]

Potholes, could have gone in the annoy thread but here will do.

Is this how we have to live now and just accept it, or is there any realistic long term solution? Was it always bad but now worse or is it recency bias? Or has traffic increased and maintenance funding/repairs stayed the same or has that genuinely been cut too exacerbating the issue?

Are they resurfacing the roads badly too? They resurfaced the Penn road for the commonewealth games and I remember by the end of the winter it was already falling apart.

The vast majority of roads are approaching the latter stages of their serviceable lives by all accounts, so they're more fragile, plus more expensive (resources wise and time wise) to repair.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c23e3d1r17go