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The same applies to disable badge holders spots, and resident only parking spots.
When my father-in-law died we knew we would need to sell his house, and that was where we kept our caravan and often also one car. So we moved, it was not what we wanted to do, but we needed some where to store our cars and caravan, on the street OK for visitors, but residents really should have off road parking.
However there are so many houses in this country where the only way to provide off road parking would be to demolish a house in the row. Maybe with a block of council owned houses this is an option, but unless we can park on the street many of our houses would become unsellable.
However people parking on the street can also be like a virus spreading from house to house, where occupants can't use their drive for fear of being blocked in.
Councils are not slow in making money when people need to park on the street, selling resident permits so only residents can park on the street.
However non of this really helps, the guy needs to charge his car, yes a agree he don't pay road tax, but neither do cyclist, we all have to live together and we should all have the same rights.
It does annoy me when I can't drive into Chester to pick up my wife, but a taxi driver can, I see he has a right to park in taxi rank and I don't, but why can he use roads I am not allowed to use, buses OK they are carrying many, but once a taxi picks up his fare he can't pick up anyone else.
The rules are not equal and not fair, but we just have to grin and bare it, so when I carried my mother in a wheel chair I would park where I could access wheel chair, if the bay was labelled mother and children tough I was the child she was my mother. Today I have to now give others the best parking spot, That's life. Where it all seemed wrong was in one place I always used mother and children's bay because some one had put posts at back of disabled bay so I could not open door and put down ramp. However they could not use bay marked for me.
When my father-in-law died we knew we would need to sell his house, and that was where we kept our caravan and often also one car. So we moved, it was not what we wanted to do, but we needed some where to store our cars and caravan, on the street OK for visitors, but residents really should have off road parking.
However there are so many houses in this country where the only way to provide off road parking would be to demolish a house in the row. Maybe with a block of council owned houses this is an option, but unless we can park on the street many of our houses would become unsellable.
However people parking on the street can also be like a virus spreading from house to house, where occupants can't use their drive for fear of being blocked in.
Councils are not slow in making money when people need to park on the street, selling resident permits so only residents can park on the street.
However non of this really helps, the guy needs to charge his car, yes a agree he don't pay road tax, but neither do cyclist, we all have to live together and we should all have the same rights.
It does annoy me when I can't drive into Chester to pick up my wife, but a taxi driver can, I see he has a right to park in taxi rank and I don't, but why can he use roads I am not allowed to use, buses OK they are carrying many, but once a taxi picks up his fare he can't pick up anyone else.
The rules are not equal and not fair, but we just have to grin and bare it, so when I carried my mother in a wheel chair I would park where I could access wheel chair, if the bay was labelled mother and children tough I was the child she was my mother. Today I have to now give others the best parking spot, That's life. Where it all seemed wrong was in one place I always used mother and children's bay because some one had put posts at back of disabled bay so I could not open door and put down ramp. However they could not use bay marked for me.
