Cardiff County Council initial response

Thank you for forwarding links which I have passed to Traffic Management.

Yours sincerely

DinaConnect to Cardiff Cardiff County Council
County Hall
Atlantic Wharf
CardiffCF10 4UW
Tel: +44 (0)29 2087 2087

Cardiff community safety partnerhip advice

Hello Anne,

I contacted South Wales Police on your behalf yesterday in an attempt to identify someone for you to correspond with directly in the hope of resolving your query.I have been informed that you may wish to send a letter and hard copies of your photos to the following address:

Senior Traffic Warden
Cardiff Central Police Station
King Edward VII AvenueCardiff
CF10 3NN

You can also ask to speak to the
Senior Traffic Warden by calling 029 2022 2111and
asking to be put through to that person.

Kind regards,

Mark Smith
Cardiff Community Safety Partnership

Jonathan Morgan replies first

I have contacted many local politicians from all parties and the first to reply is Johnathan Morgan AM

Dear Anne,

Thanks for the pictures.
You raise a number of important points about what should be done. I agree with you that people parking on the pavement causes a nuisance and can often be dangerous. However, it is not illegal to park on the pavement except where an obstruction is caused.
There are many areas of Cardiff where parking regulations are not enforced, where the police are becoming frustrated at the lack of resources allocated to these problems.
Personally we need more traffic wardens towards the north of the city, this is a major problem at the moment. We also need people booked for parking offences to demonstrate what happens when traffic regulations are broken.
Best wishes,

Jonathan

The Law

The Law:

(a) The Council has the power "to require the removal of anything deposited on a highway so as to constitute a nuisance" (Highways Act, 1980, Section 149).

(b) The Council has the power "to require that free passage along the highway is not wilfully obstructed in any way (Highways Act, 1980, Section 137).

(c) The Council has a duty "to assert and protect the rights of the public to the use and enjoyment of the highway (Highways Act, 1980, Section 130).

(d) The Council has the power "to require that vehicles are not driven on footways and verges" (Highways Act, 1835, Section 72; Road Traffic Act, 1988, Section 191).

Parking on pavements should be illegal

Parking on pavements illegal in London

The Council has a responsibility to keep the roads and footpaths safe to use. A London-wide ban on pavement parking is strictly enforced and applies to all parking on pavements, verges and central reservations, 24 hours a day.
Pavement parking is allowed under certain circumstances and signs and white boxes on the ground show where and how far on the pavement it is permitted to park.
Illegally parked vehicles cost the Council thousands of pounds a year in damage to paving and grass verges, and cause serious problems for blind, disabled and older people

Can I get past please?

No need for this. Why are some people so anti-social that they have to stop people walking along the pavement easily. Wheelchair users would have to go on to the road to get past.

Pavement crush!

How not to do traffic calming!

This doesn't slow traffic down, in fact they go faster whilst racing through! cyclists can't get by and it is still difficult for pedestrians to cross. This should be replaced with more effective traffic calming asap.

Is there any need for this on a quiet street in Rhiwbina on a Sunday? Breaking the law and making life difficult for pavemetn users!

Rhiwbina dangerous pavement

This is yet another example of a dangerous pavement!

Everybody uses streets and public spaces – but if they are congested with speeding traffic, uncrossable, unsafe at night, or full of obstacles or strewn with litter and graffiti, then none of us like to walk around our neighbourhoods.

Pavement from hell!

Look at the mess this pavement is in!
Not only is it scruffy but it is dangerous as well!
Notice the car parked on the pavement - this happens all the time and there are also lorries parking on the pavement regularly and the result is the damage that you can see here. Who pays for that?
Pavements are for people – not parked cars, litter or broken paving.time to get the balance right between people and traffic

Dropped kerb lake

This is often much worse than this! This crossing is not fit for purpose!
For pedestrians and elderly and disabled mobility scooters crossing roads are too often hazardous or impossible. Pavements need urgent improvements and disabled friendly crossings. How thoughtless and
unhelpful is this council? If the cars had to drive though several inches of water every time it rained there would be an outcry!

Cluttered Rhiwbina

Time to tidy up the street in Rhiwbina! Is't it a mess! The council could make a compulsory purchase of a few feet of land and improve the street a great deal. The lamp post would have to be removed as well. This is a danger spot for folk trying to negotiate a narrow stretch of pavement!
Doesn't it look terrible!

Street clutter Cardiff

Cardiff
Reduction in street clutterIneffective enforcement of parking restrictions can lead to more street clutter in the form of railings and bollards. In fact, government guidance even suggests increasing clutter to control parking! Guard-railing spoils the look of many of our streets, as well as making it more difficult to cross the road.

Rhiwbina Village - with cars parked on double yellow lines. Why not there isn't any sanction applied!

Note the bad state of the pavement as well. By comparison, the road is in good condition!

Another illegal parker! In the way of the bus!
Whitchurch village - Cardiff today 10th Nov 2006. where are the voices of the whitchurch councillors? MP for Cardiff North Julie Morgan? AM Sue Essex? They have eyes - this has being going on for years -why has nothing been done about it?

Habe they any idea how annoyed and upset bus users are about this and the incovienence it causes?

10th Nov 2006

Whitchurch parking on double yellow lines! Another anti-social driver!

Obstructing a dropped kerb!

Whitchurch Cardiff today 10 th Nov 2006 - parking is clearly in the way of pedestrians and wheelchair users as there is no clear way to the droppped kerb - please put people first - wheelchair users and those on foot!

Beulah Road, Rhiwbina - parking on the pavement and cylist flying down the pavement nearly knocking me over!

Because the road is so dangerous cyclist use the pavement! Give them a cycle lane! Is that so difficult for councillors in Cardiff?

Double yellow lines

Whitchurch village in Cardiff today! There is never a time when there isn't a car parked on double yellow lines here. The bus can not pull in at the bus stop to let people on.

How selfish can people be! Too lazy to use the car park. It doen't matter to these people that disabled people are being stopped or having great difficulty getting on the bus!