Rules of the road cannot be denied

I HAVE been following with interest all the letters and reports on parking in the Tele and am somewhat surprised as the authorities don’t seem to be overly interested.

It would be nice to have some sort of reply from relevant authorities but heads buried in sand comes to mind.

In one letter the reader said he was informed parking on pavements is legal but driving on them is not.

Well, according to rule 243 of the Highway Code, parking is not allowed anywhere where you are preventing access for emergency services; in front of an entrance to a property; where pavements have been adapted for wheelchair use, etc.

Also rule 244 represents the rule on pavement parking and it states “You MUST NOT park partially or wholly on the pavement unless signs permit this.”

That’s two rules of the road that can’t be denied.

Pavement user and car driver.

TO all you free parkers who take over all side streets, etc, why don’t you pay for your parking?

A lot of you have big flashy cars so must be able to afford to pay for parking.

Better still leave your cars at home and buy a daysaver on the bus, that way folk who live in these areas can park in peace. It’s about time Dundee City Council solved these problems as the residents have had enough.

Disgruntled resident.

VEHICLE parking anywhere will have normal men and women reaching for their pens. I wrote a reply to the Tele when a resident of Ladywell wrote about non-residents parking outside his/her house.

I suggested there were lots of spaces there, especially after 5pm.

In the same Tele, letter writer T. White claimed workers returning home can’t get a space at their doors and have to park miles away. Then he claims other streets are swamped by free-loaders — surely that’s what these workers are!

I take great care to park legally for free.

Tom Black.

FURTHER to the letters about parking on pavements, what about people who live in narrow streets?

Cars have to bump up on the pavements to allow enough room on the roads for cars to drive up and down.

In an ideal world pavements would be for people and roads for cars but we inhabit houses on streets that were not built for the number of cars we have on the roads now.

Unless the council is prepared to build parking areas for all cars, then it’s a situation we are stuck with.

Happy parker.