4 March (Part 3) - Give them an inch…
I
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.
