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News and Comment March 2024

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4 March (Part 3) - Give them an inch…

LV 68 OSJI reported this illegally parked car today, not because it is creating a particularly severe obstruction but because Abbey Wood residents must take a zero tolerance approach to bad commuter parking.

The rule is…


Vehicle parked more than 50cm from the kerb, and not within a designated parking space. You may not ‘Double Park’. This applies even if no other vehicle is present – Contravention Code 26.


Bexley Council came out to look at it but said they could not be sure the car was more than 50 centimetres (20 inches) from the kerb and they do not carry tape measures.

I would be the first to agree that whether a wheel is 49 centimetres or 51 centimetres (or even 65 centimetres) from a kerb is not something we should be arguing about but this vehicle is more than four feet (120+ cm) from the kerb. Nearly five feet to the actual wheel.

I would suggest that someone who is so spatially unaware that they cannot differentiate between less than two feet and more than four has no business mo-peddling around the borough.

Meanwhile we can perhaps assume that ‘double parking’ that does not involve literal double parking is a PCN-free activity in the borough of Bexley. Even that may be untrue, there is an actual case of real double parking further along the same road.

 

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