Ireland needs to crack down on drivers who park their cars on footpaths, according to disability and pedestrian groups.
The group will today warn the Oireachtas Justice Committee that the ‘widespread abuse of pavement parking’ is causing real difficulties for parents, children and people with disabilities.this morning, LPN chair Madeleine Lyes said there are three ways to tackle the issue – enforcement, street design and education.
“This is illegal in Ireland but the problem is that the vast majority don’t really understand that it’s illegal and don’t really understand that they’re causing difficulties for people when they do it. “So, kind of, across our lives, there are different points at which pavement parking causes real trouble,” she said.Ms Lyes said increased enforcement of the law involves more fines and more penalty points.“There is a very, very tiny number of penalty points – about 0.1% of all penalty points last year were for pavement parking.”“For example, in the Netherlands, instead of having double yellow lines where you can’t park, they have bays where you can park,” she said. “That is what they emphasise.
Is that a Northern Ireland registered car, with the yellow number plate? Where was that photo taken ?
Electric scooters on paths push bikes on paths they are the real issues ,kids walking to school get barged off the paths for adults on scooters , the old Also !!!
We cannot do anything about the width of the road ... bad & dangerous parking can & should be discouraged
There loads of room in that picture for the wheelchair to get by