Parking rules should be enforced
THANK you, The Hinckley Times, for publishing the RAC 10 illegal driving offences in your recent edition (July 5, 2017).
Would you kindly print rule 244 in large print of your letters page, and send copies to Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council, Leicestershire County Council and Leicestershire Police force? Because all three authorities need re-educating on this bylaw as it is being totally ignored by most drivers.
[Rule 244 of the Highway Code states you must not park fully or even partly on the pavement unless road signs permit it.]
The traffic enforcement officers the local council employ are a total waste of time when it comes to issuing tickets to vehicles parked on pavements. All they are interested in is gaining revenue from car parks.
Whenever you ask them about parked vehicles on pavements they fob you off with ‘it’s not their responsibility but the police force’s duty to sort out’.
Well I’m afraid something needs doing about these vehicles parking and blocking pedestrian right of way pavements, preventing the elderly, disabled, parents with pushchairs from using them, and having to step into dangerous roads to get by them.
And could you please also ask Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council why their employees are blocking pavements on Rutland Avenue, Granby Road, and Merevale Avenue on a daily basis with their vehicles?
They supposedly have their own car park we are told, but why then are they not using it? Is that because they have to pay to use it, so are parking on our local side streets - whoops, I mean pavements.
Get your vehicles off them and let pedestrians actually use them. The pavements are not there for you to park your cars on them.
The problem today is no one wants to take responsibility for anything and one department passes the buck from one to the other while sitting on their backsides twiddling computers all day.
Get off them and do something about our blocked pavements.
An annoyed local resident