I don’t mean once in awhile. If you have a big group over and someone parks behind someone in your drive and blocks the little sidewalk section, it’s cool.
I have a few people in my subdivision that regularly(continously it seems) have cars that cover the section of sidewalk between your main drive and the ramp that leads up from the road.
My kids and I bike-ride often and while it is hardly the end of the world, it does get frustrating. Sometimes, they are even parked so close to a car in front of them, you have to go down into the road to get around.
Am I the only one that thinks that doing this all the time is rude? My city must have no laws or ordinances against it. It’s super common.
I think it is extremely rude, but I have yet to live somewhere that the officials will ticket for that - despite every community specifically prohibiting it. As far as I’m concerned, it would be easy money for the cops to issue tickets as they make their rounds.
Like you, I and my family walk a lot. Several folk habitually block the sidewalk. If you have more vehicles than can fit in your garage and driveway, you ought to pay the price for parking them elsewhere.
One guy near us always parks his landscaping truck over the walk. Has always discouraged me from using his services.
Definitely rude, and in most places illegal by the books (oft ignored though). It’s dangerous in the case that it forces people to go around into the street or onto someone’s property line, most people never set the parking brake even on that small incline and because its obstructing a public way. People do it all the time here (when there are driveways) and nothing ever happens to them, it’s really annoying.
It depends where you are, in many places it’s legal.
Blocking the sidewalk is also pretty dangerous if you are forced out in the road to get by. Especially in the winter when negotiating snowbanks, or for the physically or visually impaired.
If it’s habitual, it’s definitely rude. Unfortunately, if it’s habitual, it’s like any bad habit: the person has learned that they can get away with it. They won’t change behavior until they see consequences: “can you not do that?” conversations, notes left on the car, or citations because someone called the cops.
Yes, a wheelchair, old man using a walker or someone pushing a baby stroller would be more sympathetic as far as enforcement goes. It is definitely rude.
True story from 1958 in New York City. Group of junior high students walking home from school finds a car blocking the sidewalk. Aforementioned students one by one walk across hood of said car. Sidewalk never blocked again, at least during school year.
I have to admit to pulling the latch release on the hood of a car that had pulled across the crosswalk at a top light when it was difficult to get past it. This was back in the day before internal releases on the things (and when I could run much faster in case I had to).
I’m afraid I park across the side walk at the one particular patient’s house. In my defense: 1. his driveway is so short and narrow, it’s not safe to pull further forward. I would get stuck in the mud. 2 .I’m only there for 30 minutes to 1 hour, once every 3 to 4 weeks. 3. NOBODY walks in the neighborhood.
Yes, I know it’s rude but I really have no alternatives, unless I were to park in someone else’s driveway and that is REALLY RUDE!
OP said he sometimes rides his bike with his kids. I ride with my nephew and niece sometimes, and with them it’s the sidewalk in residential areas. No way am I taking them on the streets.
