No one park outside my house, it's for my car!

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Re: No one park outside my house, it's for my car!

Be careful out there!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-61828119

What an awful waste of 3 lives

[Sunnysideup]

Re: No one park outside my house, it's for my car!

Some people are extremely territorial.
The majority of Cardiff’s houses were built Post war and the streets are too small to accommodate the residents cars especially when some households have 2/3/4 cars each.
Hence people putting traffic cones and wheelie bins to save their particular space.
Couple this with commuters who park outside yours and walk into town or over the bay which happens to us on a daily basis I can understand why people get annoyed

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Re: No one park outside my house, it's for my car!

Some people are extremely territorial.
The majority of Cardiff’s houses were built Post war and the streets are too small to accommodate the residents cars especially when some households have 2/3/4 cars each.
Hence people putting traffic cones and wheelie bins to save their particular space.
Couple this with commuters who park outside yours and walk into town or over the bay which happens to us on a daily basis I can understand why people get annoyed

I thought Cardiffs housing stock was Victorian mostly and inter War?

[bobh]

Re: No one park outside my house, it's for my car!

I thought Cardiffs housing stock was Victorian mostly and inter War?

I think most "inner" Cardiff is as you say, but I think the vast majority of satellite estates are 60s or later.
My area was built in the 80s, and most have a garage and short drive. Most households don't use the garage, some have converted them to extra rooms and leave cars on drives. But there's no room for street parking, and the roads are not wide enough to park on both sides so there's loads of pavement parking.
There's been some newer houses built in the last ten years, costing a fortune, and still developers think along the lines of one car per house, no visitors.

[poc]

Re: No one park outside my house, it's for my car!

Try being disabled and you'll instantly see why.

[North Cardiff Blue]

Re: No one park outside my house, it's for my car!

On several occasions my next door neighbour has had her car parked literally across the road, then if we've had to go out, has got in her car to park where we had been parked, all of 5 yards away. She has shouted at people for daring to park outside her house and has been very abusive to some of the locals.

I went to a mates in West Wales arrived Friday night, parked outside a house two doors down with a big drive no cars on there, before I could get the bags out some old bag flew out "you can't park there, it's where my Son parks when he visits on Tuesdays".

I said don't worry i'll be gone by then, she said "No you can't park there it's my house, park outside his house", she was so angry, so I moved one down further for the sake of my mate, but imagine living life like that?

[superfeathers]

Re: No one park outside my house, it's for my car!

Some people are extremely territorial.
The majority of Cardiff’s houses were built Post war and the streets are too small to accommodate the residents cars especially when some households have 2/3/4 cars each.
Hence people putting traffic cones and wheelie bins to save their particular space.
Couple this with commuters who park outside yours and walk into town or over the bay which happens to us on a daily basis I can understand why people get annoyed

we are in the valleys and the commuters for town aren't as bad, the worst are the ones who are going to town or the park for a few hours, its like 50p to park in town

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Re: No one park outside my house, it's for my car!

we are in the valleys and the commuters for town aren't as bad, the worst are the ones who are going to town or the park for a few hours, its like 50p to park in town

Ya, but women can’t manipulate car parks (where’s that hiding behind the wall smiley)

[Vindec]

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The problems are only going to get worse when electric cars become the norm.

[El Horno]

Re: No one park outside my house, it's for my car!

I live next to a school and the parking around drop off and pick up times is appalling. It doesn't bother me though, because I chose to buy a house next to a school. It would be illogical for me to get annoyed at people ensuring their kids get there or get home safely. I get my kicks from laughing at the attempts to make three-point-turns in the road.

[Rjk]

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The problems are only going to get worse when electric cars become the norm.

and will be better when self driving cars become the norm

[Rjk]

Re: No one park outside my house, it's for my car!

A few years ago I lived on the Graig in Pontypridd and parking was an absolute nightmare.
Streets of terraced houses with no provision for parking. On a good day I would be able to get within 20-30 metres from my house. On a bad day I had to park up to 3 streets away, which isn't fun when it's pissing it down with rain and you have kids and a load of shopping in the car, either that or park illegally and risk a ticket.

It was mostly people who would leave their cars there and walk down into Pontypridd or to the hospital to work - because late at night there were always numerous spaces and during the first lockdown you could basically park anywhere you wanted.

I never noticed any aggro though as everyone was in the same boat, I'm sure they all realised I'd much rather be parking outside my own house if I could.

Now living in a leafy suburb of North Cardiff, and everyone has their own driveway - which is so much better. But there is probably more complaining about where people are parking than in the Graig when people leave a car on the street outside someone else's house.

[Sunnysideup]

Re: No one park outside my house, it's for my car!

Ah the Graig
Know it well
I used to go to The Globe on a Friday and Saturday night
A copper would come in after his shift and after loads of requests from the regulars would sing 🎶 a rendition of “Jesamine” by The Casuals
He was pretty awesome to be fair 🤩
Memories lol

[Wash DC Blue]

Re: No one park outside my house, it's for my car!

Ah the Graig
Know it well
I used to go to The Globe on a Friday and Saturday night
A copper would come in after his shift and after loads of requests from the regulars would sing 🎶 a rendition of “Jesamine” by The Casuals
He was pretty awesome to be fair 🤩
Memories lol

That song is such an earworm for me.
Gonna be in my head for days now :)

[Rjk]

Re: No one park outside my house, it's for my car!

Ah the Graig
Know it well
I used to go to The Globe on a Friday and Saturday night
A copper would come in after his shift and after loads of requests from the regulars would sing �� a rendition of “Jesamine” by The Casuals
He was pretty awesome to be fair ��
Memories lol

I used to live about 15 metres from the Globe- it wasnt a pub any more, just someone's house.
there were still 2 other pubs less than a minutes walk and probably 5 or 6 others within 5 minutes