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[BazaJT]

A woman this evening drove the whole length of our road with the nearside wheels,and about half the width of her car[a Zafira]on the pavement.This because it seems she couldn't be bothered to give way to on coming traffic There is no reason or excuse for driving like this.

[TheBoy]

Due to parked cars?  Maybe RPG them (along with the Zafira)

[BazaJT]

Yes it's down to parked cars,those living on my side of the road[me included obviously]have no off road parking so have to park at the side of the road,and everyone else uses the road as a rat run.Hmmm,RPG sounds tempting after all it's only an Omega I park there so not as if it's anything decent to worry over

[YZ250]

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Hmmm,RPG sounds tempting ..........

Role Playing Game ......not sure how that will help with the parking issues. 

Edit:
Ah, I see, it has another meaning. 

[Mister Rog]

Oh, I saw the topic title and assumed it was about STEMO . . . . . 

[Rods2]

[rant on] Fine until you expect a pedestrian to move out of the way, except with my limited sight I may well not even see them. Pavements are not car parks, cycle lanes (unless designated) or undertaking lanes. Some of us are a bit quant and expect them to be for us as pedestrians as 4th class citizens after number 1 pavement escape lane vehicle drivers and illegal pavement parkers, number 2 motorcyclists, number 3 cyclists and finally as a 4th class pleb, not through choice, I'm all too often a pedestrian![/rant on]

This is a regular occurrence near me with a right turn into a garage and a dropped curb before and just after, so the pavement is an escape lane and I'm expected to see and yield as a 30-40 mph vehicle swerves onto the pavement, so they can save 200ms on their frantic dash home, to slump in front of the TV doing nothing.

Don't even start me on light controlled pedestrian crossing, where red these days are clearly optional and an excuse to 'accelerate into danger, to beat the amber and then well before after they reach the red lights they speed across regardless'. Regular occurance after thinking cars will stop, which is more difficult with my right eye and limited right field of vision, so non-stopping cars are beyond my field of view. A green light and warbling sound all too often means 'give us as a speeding driver a pedestrian target'.

I think I need to invest in a pedestrian cam? Before you comment, just mull over, how many pedestrians killed road users last year? For vehicle drivers the statistics are available, over 3000 or over 8 a day. In our average lifetime 1 in 200 of us will be killed by vehicles.

[Mr Gav]

[rant on] Fine until you expect a pedestrian to move out of the way, except with my limited sight I may well not even see them. Pavements are not car parks, cycle lanes (unless designated) or undertaking lanes. Some of us are a bit quant and expect them to be for us as pedestrians as 4th class citizens after number 1 pavement escape lane vehicle drivers and illegal pavement parkers, number 2 motorcyclists, number 3 cyclists and finally as a 4th class pleb, not through choice, I'm all too often a pedestrian![/rant on]

This is a regular occurrence near me with a right turn into a garage and a dropped curb before and just after, so the pavement is an escape lane and I'm expected to see and yield as a 30-40 mph vehicle swerves onto the pavement, so they can save 200ms on their frantic dash home, to slump in front of the TV doing nothing.

Don't even start me on light controlled pedestrian crossing, where red these days are clearly optional and an excuse to 'accelerate into danger, to beat the amber and then well before after they reach the red lights they speed across regardless'. Regular occurance after thinking cars will stop, which is more difficult with my right eye and limited right field of vision, so non-stopping cars are beyond my field of view. A green light and warbling sound all too often means 'give us as a speeding driver a pedestrian target'.

I think I need to invest in a pedestrian cam? Before you comment, just mull over, how many pedestrians killed road users last year? For vehicle drivers the statistics are available, over 3000 or over 8 a day. In our average lifetime 1 in 200 of us will be killed by vehicles.

This is true but where I live there is no choice as the road isn`t wide enough for cars to be parked on both sides of the road so people on both sides of the street park half and half, leaving room for pedestrians of course.
Saturday mornings are fun when someone orders something from a big store like Argos or Curry`s as it is still tight for large delivery vans.