Are pavements for Pedestrians

Posted: Wednesday, 28th January, 2015 at 9:15
Dave Clarke

This isn’t a general gripe about parking outside Ryleys School at peak times. It isn’t to complain about the cars that park on the no parking yellow hatched areas of the road, nor is it a moan about what was once nice grass by the lay- by that is now a furrowed mid bath!

It’s not a moan about the large black limo with a muscle chauffeur that blocks the pull in outside the school while daddy deposits child resulting in more parents blocking the main highway.

No what I am writing about is he use of the pavement as a highway. Twice this morning while walking into the village a car mounted the kerb swung across the pavement partly across the grass area beyond the pavements and drove along the pavement a short distance and ‘parked’.

It’s dangerous, illegal and will one day result inan accident. How are blind people with guide dogs or the disabled in wheelchairs coping, thankfully not many to my knowledge use that path.

My one consolation is that if I am knocked down it won’t be a common a garden vehicle but something expensive, an Overfinch for example.

Rant over, fingers crossed nobody is hurt either by a wild car itself or by being forced off the pavement into the road.

Posted: Wednesday, 28th January, 2015 at 13:37
Jon Williams

I passed the Ryleys this morning and was only thinking the same.
Then one of the orange road cones (Ryleys Schools )landed under a Mini driving along Ryleys Lane !

Posted: Wednesday, 28th January, 2015 at 15:37
Stewart Dyer

Likewise I am constantly forced onto the very busy Ryleys Lane just to get past. Apparently these lazy, selfish people think it is perfectly acceptable to park (and even drive) fully on the pavement, and the lesser beings are expected to risk life and limb to allow them to do it.

Posted: Tuesday, 10th February, 2015 at 9:42
Dave Clarke

Back in force today, I think you get a ‘park where you like’ window sticker when you buy a Land Rover, full square on the pavement, no consideration for pedestrians who were forced into the road.


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