Because people on foot, with prams, shopping, wheelchairs👨🏾‍🦽, mobility scooters or canes👩‍🦯, matter less than one person's desire to protect their car or walk even less... 🙄

#PavementParking #Pedestrians #Motornormativity #CarCulture

“Key findings from Bristol’s 2025 Walking and Cycling Index include:
- 66% of those surveyed thought fewer cars parked on the pavement would help them to walk or wheel more”
#PavementParking

A van parked completely on the pavement next to a lamppost. There is also a ladder and a barrier in the way.

#PavementParking UK A very busy road, double yellow lines. Why would you think this is OK?

“Key findings from Bristol’s 2025 Walking and Cycling Index include:
- 66% of those surveyed thought fewer cars parked on the pavement would help them to walk or wheel more”
#PavementParking

Same goes for #walking. 👇

Another way in which #PavementParking degrades community life

#SociableWalking #Priorities #HealthyStreets

A row of at least 6 cars all parked at least halfway on the pavement. The gap left is barely enough for a single person to get past. Not enough for me, my guide dog and my cane.

The worst offender. Almost fully on the pavement next to a lamp post.

Every trip to take @guidedogsuk.bsky.social for a well deserved run starts with this. Selfish people choosing to park on the pavement forcing vulnerable pedestrians onto uneven grass or into the road. If this is how they park, think what their driving is like! #PavementParking #Blind #Dogs

“Key findings from Bristol’s 2025 Walking and Cycling Index include:
- 66% of those surveyed thought fewer cars parked on the pavement would help them to walk or wheel more”
#PavementParking

With oil prices rising fast, we call upon our politicians to help the cost of living by accelerating the roll out of #ActiveTravel infrastructure, and making our streets less hostile for walking and cycling by creating #ActiveNeighbourhoods and addressing #PavementParking.

@walkridegm.org.uk

#badlyparkedcars and #pavementparking have got to make an appearance in this survey of barriers to 🚶 and 🛴 and 🚲 to school

And there's a prize for entering!

“Key findings from Bristol’s 2025 Walking and Cycling Index include:
- 66% of those surveyed thought fewer cars parked on the pavement would help them to walk or wheel more”
#PavementParking

Bristol Against Carspreading launch event We've all noticed it. Cars are getting bigger, wider, heavier and taller. This 'carspreading' effect is making our streets more congested, more polluted and more dangerous, with children especially at...

I'd rather these pointless, unsafe monsters weren't clogging up Bristol's narrow streets but maybe this is a start to reclaiming road/pavement space actionnetwork.org/events/brist... #PavementParking #RoadSafety

Photo of a red car parked mostly on the pavement next to two bins. The pavement is completely blocked.

Don't you just love bin day😡 #BlindLife #RPAwarenessMonth
#PavementParking

The midday walk to the shops was hindered by #pavementparking again. No way a buggy or wheelchair able to use the pavement here. BTW that is a secondary school and nursery across the street.

Highways Act 1980 s137(1): Wilfully obstructing free passage on a highway without lawful excuse is an offence.
Highway Code r244: Do not park partly or wholly on pavements unless permitted; it obstructs pedestrians, wheelchair users and prams. #PavementParking

Highways Act 1980 s137(1): Wilfully obstructing free passage on a highway without lawful excuse is an offence.
Highway Code r244: Do not park partly or wholly on pavements unless permitted; it obstructs pedestrians, wheelchair users and prams. #PavementParking

Highways Act 1980 s137(1): Wilfully obstructing free passage on a highway without lawful excuse is an offence.
Highway Code r244: Do not park partly or wholly on pavements unless permitted; it obstructs pedestrians, wheelchair users and prams. #PavementParking

Highways Act 1980 s137(1): Wilfully obstructing free passage on a highway without lawful excuse is an offence.
Highway Code r244: Do not park partly or wholly on pavements unless permitted; it obstructs pedestrians, wheelchair users and prams. #PavementParking

Highways Act 1980 s137(1): Wilfully obstructing free passage on a highway without lawful excuse is an offence.
Highway Code r244: Do not park partly or wholly on pavements unless permitted; it obstructs pedestrians, wheelchair users and prams. #PavementParking

Highways Act 1980 s137(1): Wilfully obstructing free passage on a highway without lawful excuse is an offence.
Highway Code r244: Do not park partly or wholly on pavements unless permitted; it obstructs pedestrians, wheelchair users and prams. #PavementParking

Oxford parents protest over safety fears outside school Parents at Windmill Primary School say they do not want an accident before changes are made.

🚸Windmill Primary protest!
dangerous parking + aggressive driving = children at risk. #pavementparking and ignoring school-streets restrictions 🤯

Kids need space to get to school safely — these behaviours aren’t “just inconvenient”. #SafeSchoolStreets
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just more routine #PavementParking

Highways Act 1980 s137(1): Wilfully obstructing free passage on a highway without lawful excuse is an offence.
Highway Code r244: Do not park partly or wholly on pavements unless permitted; it obstructs pedestrians, wheelchair users and prams. #PavementParking

Highways Act 1980 s137(1): Wilfully obstructing free passage on a highway without lawful excuse is an offence.
Highway Code r244: Do not park partly or wholly on pavements unless permitted; it obstructs pedestrians, wheelchair users and prams. #PavementParking

This morning’s #pavementparking challenge. Not only difficult for those #walking and #wheeling, but hinders visibility for the contra flow cycle lane.

I’m looking forward to local authorities implementing enforcement against #pavementparking. Walking across the street from a school at home time should not be a challenge.

Highways Act 1980 s137(1): Wilfully obstructing free passage on a highway without lawful excuse is an offence.
Highway Code r244: Do not park partly or wholly on pavements unless permitted; it obstructs pedestrians, wheelchair users and prams. #PavementParking

Highways Act 1980 s137(1): Wilfully obstructing free passage on a highway without lawful excuse is an offence.
Highway Code r244: Do not park partly or wholly on pavements unless permitted; it obstructs pedestrians, wheelchair users and prams. #PavementParking

A selection of oversized cars plonked on the pavement (footway) in Moseley.

A Moseley #PavementParking chicane.

Anyone trying to get by in a wheelchair or while wheeling g a buggy must try and weave between trees, badly parked cars, a lamppost and other street furniture or brave the fast moving traffic on the carriageway.

@therealyplac.bsky.social

Oxfordshire Streets | Three Updates, One Direction of Travel — Oxfordshire Liveable Streets If you’ve been following transport stuff recently, you’ll know January has been a little, shall we say, ‘congested’ with news.  A new national Road Safety Strategy. New government direction ...

The LTN’s took away that anxiety & made our route to school, the park & our local area peaceful and safe”

Read more in the blog & on the link between stories like this & the new #NationalSafetyStrategy and #PavementParking consultation outcomes

www.oxfordshireliveablestreets.org/news/oxfords...

Highway Code - Rule 244: “You should not park partially or wholly on the pavement elsewhere unless signs permit it. Parking on the pavement can obstruct and seriously inconvenience pedestrians, people in wheelchairs or with visual impairments and people with prams or pushchairs.”
#PavementParking