On 26/11/2018 00:12, Bruce Farquhar wrote:
On Sun, 25 Nov 2018 23:15:43 -0000, DerbyBorn
wrote:



Likewise here, just laziness. There is a busy regular bus route along
the road, at the end of my street. A good half mile of that is
occupied by large detached and semi- detached houses, these share a
long access road at the rear and a have large-ish rear gardens with
garages and parking built on them. Do they use the rear to park, not
likely...

They park out front, usually in a continuous row of near 1/2 mile of
parked vehicles, causing absolute chaos for traffic. Cars usually
manage to somehow get through, but buses really struggle. I have even
regularly seen them incredibly park on both sides of the road, making
it a real struggle for buses, sometimes impossible.

But do the planners try to accept that people like to park out front? No!

I don't understand this parking at the back nonsense.* Is this council
estates we're talking about?* They mostly seem to have been built before
the car was invented.* They have stupid systems where everyone parks in
the middle of a square of houses, but the front doors are on the
outside.* So a postman walks round the outside to post through the
letterboxes on the front doors, which are on a path.* But if a courier
wants to deliver something, he either has to run 200 yards round the
outside of the block from where he parked, or go through their private
back garden and knock on the back door, shocking the naked woman who
just got out of the shower.

In civilised places like my street, you access the house from the front,
where the road is, where the front door with the letterbox is, where the
driveway is.* The back garden does not have an exit, it borders onto the
back garden of the house in the next street, with a fence or hedge to
seperate them.* Cars do not park on the road apart from
buses/taxis/postmen.* Your own car lives in your drive or garage where
it belongs.

Ours is somewhat like that, but my wife's car lives on the road outside.
The driveway is only long enough for one car and access along the side
of the house, while useable for my kit-car or trailer, is too narrow for
everyday use - involving inching though with mirrors folded!

We are lucky, many houses only have access 3' to 4' wide to the back
garden. The houses were built in 1934/35 and cars weren't a consideration.

SteveW