On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 12:42:22 +0000, dennis@home
wrote:

On 07/02/2016 23:16, T i m wrote:
On Sun, 7 Feb 2016 22:06:35 +0000, Vir Campestris
wrote:

On 05/02/2016 22:26, T i m wrote:
Unfortunately they can't use width limits to protect us because they
still need to get the dustcarts and any other legitimate HGV traffic
down here

A width limit can be signs only.

Interesting point, however, seeing as they ignore the three signs
suggesting there is no access to their intended destination, and given
the width restriction isn't physical ... ? ;-(

If the width limit isn't physical and they get stuck because of cars
parked then someone is obstructing the highway.

Well yes, but there is a difference between 'stuck' and not being able
to turn a 40' artic round in an urban backstreet that (even) they
didn't want to be in in the first place. ;-(

And it's not just here of course, someone I know a mile away had her
car (along with many around her and many road bollards) damaged by
another lost 'continental' artic.

I thought there was a road traffic rule that suggests you shouldn't
park in such a way that reduces the road to less than two car widths?

If that was Policed in most towns in the Uk (and especially places
like London) a very large number of drivers would get prosecuted.

So the big question could be, how much of the highway needs to be
obstructed before you fall foul of the following:

"Section 137 of the Highways Act 1980 (as amended by sections 38 and
46 of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 and the Police and Criminal
Evidence Act 1984, Schedule 7) provides an offence of wilful
obstruction of the highway. An offence is committed if a person,
without lawful authority or excuse, in any way willfully obstructs the
free passage along a highway."

Could that mean (if some authority chooses to decide so) that every
person reducing any road to less than (potentially) *two* HGV widths
is 'willfully obstructing' the highway?

Is the highway still 'obstructed' (as a general thoroughfare) if there
is still one HGV width clear?

Cheers, T i m