One of the main roads into my town has double yellow lines along it on both sides, yet the residents still park their vehicles outside their properties. This causes traffic in both directions to either 'slalom' or drive up the middle of the road. 

 

Would parking on double yellow lines affect any claim they would have if their vehicle was damaged by a vehicle travelling on that road, which has happened recently? 

No idea about a valid insurance policy and vehicles parked illegally, if they are parked illegally.

 

Is there any reason that the Parking Wardens if there are any are ignoring ticketing the vehicles & are Police Scotland Officers ignoring because it is the job of Parking Wardens if the council employ them or contract any to be doing the job?

I know three of the vehicles that park there have Blue Badges, including the one that was hit. Not sure if that is a Get Out of Jail Card Free. 

Blue Badges allow parking on Yellow lines as long as not causing an obstruction or danger to other road users (there are exclusions) and can be a 'get out of the house and into a vehicle card'. 

*Up to 3 hours in England, Wales & Northern Ireland but unlimited in Scotland'*

 

Not all Blue Badge holders are abusing the badge or it's purpose.

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Edited 2 December, 20187 yr by Offski

4 minutes ago, Offski said:

Blue Badges allow parking on Yellow lines as long as not causing an obstruction or danger to other road users and can be a 'get out of the house and into a vehicle card'.  Not all Blue Badge holders are abusing the badge or it's purpose.

 

Blue badges only allow up to three hours parking and I don't think you can cause an obstruction be it road or dropped kerbs (which may obstruct a wheelchair etc!). I have to use blue badges when taking my mother out and the number of people who use disabled parking bays in supermarkets etc who don't have a blue badge makes life difficult - the ones near us don't seem to be bothered about checking.

 

I also came across a difficult loction where I live in that a shopping location has some disabled 'drop off points' - So I have to abandon my mother at the roadside and then go and park the car up elsewhere. Not great especially when it is raining.

 

 

 

 

Yes. See the edit,

no 3 hour limit in Scotland.

 

I sometimes use a Disabled Parking Bay in Supermarkets in a vehicle with no Blue Badge because not my vehicle but i still need to be able to get the door fully open and not going to be using Child / Toddler / Parent parking places.

 

I am a believer in the Disability or Infirmity and the need for some to use the parking place is more important than the Badge, many seem to get a Badge easily while many are not able to. 

 

Those  with a Blue Badge displayed and that can be for their use that use the Disabled Parking bays to park and get their paper before heading for a round of Golf or to go Green Bowling etc pith me right off.

Edited 2 December, 20187 yr by Offski

These three cars have Blue Badges and DO cause an obstruction, hence why you have to either slalom around them or drive up the middle of the road. 

 

Not implying they are abusing the blue badge, but if it allows them to park where able bodied people would be fined or prosecuted as to park there obstructs or restricts traffic flow, then perhaps the system requires changing. 

 

That particular road is a designated 'M74 Alternative Route', that means when there is a major incident on the M74 this is the road they use to divert North and Southbound traffic. Which happens a lot more than people realise. 

 

Anyway, it doesn't look as if my original question is going to be answered, so happy for it to be closed. 

Local Councillors are Local Residents and should know the area and the roads and the issue so raising concerns with them is really all, that can be done.

They might be on a relevant committee, or have fellow councillors that are, they know the 'Roads Director & the Roads Department Officials' and the Chief Constable and the Community Officers etc and if there is any possible resolutions to the issue these are the ones with the ability to raise matters.

Edited 3 December, 20187 yr by Offski

I would say it's a council/police thing so the answers would be supplied by them.

 

I can tell you a whole host of parking problems we encounter daily but unless the council/police are bothered it's like I've done my bit by complaining to the local councillor and PCSO, it seems to get passed on and then zilch happens.

On 02/12/2018 at 15:07, Fin69 said:

One of the main roads into my town has double yellow lines along it on both sides, yet the residents still park their vehicles outside their properties. This causes traffic in both directions to either 'slalom' or drive up the middle of the road. 

 

Would parking on double yellow lines affect any claim they would have if their vehicle was damaged by a vehicle travelling on that road, which has happened recently? 

 A while ago my wife clipped the wing mirror of a person with a blue badge's car that was parked on double yellow lines rigth on the corner of a T-junction and her insurance paid out the third party.  Only paint transfer on her car that polished out.

@Fin69 - Talk to your councilor; it's generally believed that Glasgow traffic wardens only ticket a few main streets and/or where there's political pressure for them to do so.

^^^ Hard to believe about Glasgow as points mean prizes, or tickets mean cash money for those that Glasgow Corporation contract to bring in the kelly.

 

Hamilton will be a law onto themselves.  Do they have Traffic Wardens?

From my reading of the blue badge conditions attached to my badge, I believe that there are restrictions attached to parking in restricted areas, and the main one is "use common sense" .i'e, don't park to cause an obstruction - simple driving consideration, but perhaps that's an old fashioned notion these days.

On 02/12/2018 at 15:07, Fin69 said:

One of the main roads into my town has double yellow lines along it on both sides, yet the residents still park their vehicles outside their properties. This causes traffic in both directions to either 'slalom' or drive up the middle of the road. 

 

Would parking on double yellow lines affect any claim they would have if their vehicle was damaged by a vehicle travelling on that road, which has happened recently? 

The short answer is, no!

If you hit a stationary vehicle, no matter where or how it was parked, you are at fault and so you/your insurance company are liable!

 

There may be certain disputes, say, where visibility is severely restricted etc but then, the simple answer to that is that you should only be driving at a speed where you can stop in the distance you cans to be safe so that, negates any "I couldn't see the car, parked round the bend on an unlit street" Argument!

 

The insurer MIGHT just try limiting the amount they have to pay out but it is extremely unlikely they will not be held at least, mostly to blame. After all, the said vehicle was not moving. It would not be a "He/she should have given way to me but continued, despite me myself continuing" Scenario, where liability would be split between the drivers concerned.

On 03/12/2018 at 15:46, KenONeill said:

@Fin69 - Talk to your councilor; it's generally believed that Glasgow traffic wardens only ticket a few main streets and/or where there's political pressure for them to do so.

Depends on which councillor does what. Or even if in the likes Glasgow, there's two tiers of councillors, as there is out in the country, where each town has it's local ( ward ) councillors and the county has it's own. But even now in th south ( I have both local and county councillors), parking control is more of a county thing, with the decrim of parking and control given to County enforcement. Locally with this sort of problem I'd be asking both ward & county councillors to act, as it's both a local concern and one for either parking enforcement or Police action on obstruction issues. possibly best dealt with by police having a quiet word with the blue rinse brigade as to the advisability of parking. I've heard that some insurance companies take the view that if a car was parked in a problematic way, then the driver is at fault, and it's loss of NCB time.

On 02/02/2019 at 23:49, VWD said:

Depends on which councillor does what. Or even if in the likes Glasgow, there's two tiers of councillors, as there is out in the country, where each town has it's local ( ward ) councillors and the county has it's own. But even now in th south ( I have both local and county councillors), parking control is more of a county thing, with the decrim of parking and control given to County enforcement. Locally with this sort of problem I'd be asking both ward & county councillors to act, as it's both a local concern and one for either parking enforcement or Police action on obstruction issues. possibly best dealt with by police having a quiet word with the blue rinse brigade as to the advisability of parking. I've heard that some insurance companies take the view that if a car was parked in a problematic way, then the driver is at fault, and it's loss of NCB time.

We haven't had multi-tier local government in Scotland since the last set of reforms in 1996.

Just Community Councils and Councillors, Town Councillors / Provosts etc.  MSP's / Members of the Scottish Parliament & MP's Member of the Westminster Parliament.

Then the Roads Department, Police Scotland etc . 

 

Lots of people paid from the public purse to Govern the communities,

Lots of Indians, lots of Chiefs and lots of people that must drive roads locally of walk the pavements and can not all have poor eyesight. Or selectively blind.

Community councillors don't have much influence at all. You need to speak to ward councillors if you want anything to happen.

 

 

They do tend to stay locally & know a man or woman that can, campaigns being often something they understand,

the locally thing which might not be the case with Councillors, MSP's or MP's. 

11 hours ago, Skoffski said:

Just Community Councils and Councillors, Town Councillors / Provosts etc.  MSP's / Members of the Scottish Parliament & MP's Member of the Westminster Parliament.

Then the Roads Department, Police Scotland etc . 

 

Lots of people paid from the public purse to Govern the communities,

Lots of Indians, lots of Chiefs and lots of people that must drive roads locally of walk the pavements and can not all have poor eyesight. Or selectively blind.

Oh ,we have them down here in my place of exile .I got that fed up of one pot hole being missed that i suggested to my county councillor that perhaps the staff in Highways should be sent to the optician. That along with a photo of the pothole and a comment that it had been there that long that the original marking ( yellow marking paint) had worn off.

We used to have a very apt description of County road folks up in Inverness shire " they go along the road, they go over the road, yet  NEVER touch the road".

Ken, I wasn't sure how things have gone on local politics up narth, since I've been in exile down south for more years than I care to remember.