DOTS, my street and neighbouring street.

[svend]

Parked up outside my neighbours house, on our side of the street people park one foot onto the kerbside (the other side park off the kerb as the kerbside for some reason can be two to three times higher and damage alloy wheel walls, etc...), it means there is a wider centre of the road for passing cars.

This driver took more than a couple of minutes to park the car, in a space four times larger than the car and still ended up nearly a foot away from the kerbside.

Yes, the driver manoeuvred back and forward a few times and still ended up there.

Also a parked up taxi on the other side of the road. Dacia Logan MCV Stepway looking a bit filthy.
The driver will almost certainly be sending a notice and likely a fine for having a dirty taxi (drivers are allowed an allowance to make sure the vehicles are clean inside and out though a little leeway is allowed in the Winter. This is more than the leeway.

[WhoIsTheLeader]

Huh, never thought about official limits of taxi cleanliness. I figured the fleet manager coordinated cleanings or something. That's still unusually filthy for a taxi and it seems important for them not to be so visibly dirty.

Also, people are always parking over the entire sidewalk on my street and it drives me crazy. It's wide enough to park cars on both sides and still have traffic through the middle with room to spare. Why are you forcing pedestrians into the road? On the rare occasions an event turns the entire street into parking there's no sidewalk parking so why do it when you're the only street parked car around?

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@whoistheleader
Some of the taxis are rented from the company, some are owner drivers who rent the system from the taxi company.

Our streets are old and narrow (at least 150 year old factory worker terrace streets). The paths are more than adequately wide enough, even with a vehicle parked about a foot on the pavement. So we are by no means 'forcing pedestrians into the road'.
The centre of the street is just over wide enough to get a large car down, but we often get quite large delivery vans down which just leaves a few inches on either side and car mirrors, etc... get taken off, scratched, scuffed, etc...

[gin-san]

It's not like I'm a master at parallel parking or anything but some people are absolutely useless at it.

I got held up for a minute this week by someone trying to parallel park while some guy behind the empty spot was trying to exit at the same time. Surprisingly, there was no honking, but I sat there wondering wtf they were doing and that it would be much quicker if just one of them would stay still.

[svend]

@gin-san
Parking is at a premium on streets like ours. Some of the parking is impressive, just several inches front and rear of the car. This morning I came home to find some of the smaller cars had half the length of their car again, in front and to the rear.

[WhoIsTheLeader]

@svend said in DOTS, my street and neighbouring street.:

So we are by no means 'forcing pedestrians into the road'.

I condone the wheel on the curb in your case. It makes sense to leave more room down the somewhat narrow road and you're still leaving room for pedestrians. People on my street tend to park wholly on the sidewalk for literally no reason at all and it really annoys me.

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@whoistheleader
We park on the kerb on our side, but they mostly don't on the other side because of the kerb height.

[nowhere]

I was in Scotland and northern England last summer. Driving on the "wrong" side of the road didn't bother me at all but I never got used to the way people would park facing whatever direction they felt like as well as pulling up onto the sidewalk. It doesn't seem to cause any problems and I can't argue from a safety standpoint seeing how much safer it is to drive or be a pedestrian there than it is here in Canada but it never stopped being disconcerting to see.

I've always been terrible at parallel parking myself. Backup cameras fixed that for me though - and made it a lot easier to back up to and hook up a trailer.

[annoying_salman]

I can't understand those people that park nowhere near the kerbside, then going out of the car, look at the vehicle, and thinking to themself "yeah, this is a good parking position" then left.

Several months back I was waiting in my car while my mother went to a grocery store. I parked the car at the kerbside. After a while, a Toyota Kijang Innova came from the rear and wanting to park in front of my car. I watched the driver struggled parking his car, even hitting the kerb with the front wheel, wiggling in and out which positioned the car away from the kerb and instead almost at the center of the road. The driver then got out of the car, looking at the position, then left it there. Thankfully the road was empty because the street was blocked, which made it even more impressive given there were so much space to manoeuvre the damn car.

I parked my car the spot occupied by the silver car, while the Kijang Innova driver tried to park in front of my car, and there were no other cars nor obstacles in front of me

[pip bip]

@svend Logan taxi?

[svend]

@pip-bip
Yep, Logan MCV Stepway, a lifted Logan.