Footpath parking?

[stan hyd]

Hi Guys

Just brough back my bike from portsmouth to the big smog that is london for the first time.

My question is this. I have parked the biked on the pavement which is very wide so that I can lock the bike to the lampost.

Whats the rules on this sort of thing and could I get a ticket
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[iooi]

If there are any restriction that stop you parking on the road, then they still appy on the pavement.
That seems to be the general rule.
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[stan hyd]

the only restrictions on the road are that you have to be a permitt holder.

would i need a permit to park a bike?
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[Finglonga]

Most places nowadays it is an offence to park on the pavement anyway as its obstruction.
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[Ariel Badger]

London is worse than the rest of the country at handing out tickets.
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[syl]

Parking on the pavement is not permitted unless there are specific roadside signs indicating that it is permitted - so yes, you could very well get a ticket (with a code 62 presumably).
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[MaybeGuy]

i once parked in a permit parking, got a ticket... wher do you put a permit on a bike?

i also did the same thing recently, but parked on a pavement of a permit parking area... the car in the parking got a ticket, i did not

what is fucking hilarious though, my bike doesnt say GSXR on it anywhere (its the 400) it does however have a visordown sticker on it...

so on the ticket they wrote 'SUZUKI VISORDOWN'
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[Louise]

Id be carefull locking it to the lamp-post. I was parked on the road, but managed to lock the bike to the lampost (Brighton) came back the next day, bike was there but the lock had gone

[Skudd]

Hung at first light. Then fined for leaving your own body for others to clear up.
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[fatsamurai]

I've seen people chaining them up to standard bike stands in town here.

If you do get a ticket from a parking machine, where would you put it? surely some unscrupulous driver could just nab it and stick it in their car?

[Paivi]

[TUG]

Your best bet is asking one of those wankers who deal out the tickets to see if its ok, fuckin scum, was late by 5 mins out of the dentist here in wigan and my mum got a ticket because the timer on the fuckin ticket machin was wrong and dentists fuckin slow, pure utter money robbing twats imo. Get a real job!
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[Paivi]

[hellkat]

And don't listen to couriers tell you about if you cover the numberplate over, they are not able to issue you with a ticket, cos they can still read the number of the engine.

In fact, don't listen to couriers tall stories at all. Parking attendants have so many ways of getting round it, they somehow manage to ticket covered bikes.


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[Paivi]

They can remove anything covering the plates. Previously, they had to get a copper to do this, but now they've been given this power. Something to do with terrorism, apparently.
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[leiba1]

As Paivi says, London has different rules for different boroughs. For example, in the borough I live in M/B's can park for free in any marked bays, (excluding loading, doctors etc) whilst literally across the road in the neighboring borough you have to have a residents permit for your specific bay, buy a P&D ticket for those bays or use a bike bay. Chaining your bike to street furniture is also not allowed whether or not you're on the road or the pavement and pavement parking is not allowed unless, (and this is a tricky one ) you can park inside a building line, ie. that piece of pavement that belongs to the building and not the council.

[stan hyd]

crickey Parking in London is even more complicated for bikes than cars
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[leiba1]

Yep, I remember the days when you could park a bike almost any where. Not so now and with so many more bikes on the road, (in London partly due to the congestion charges) those few places where you can park are like gold dust in popular areas and at peak times.

[Paivi]

[Pete.]

Parking with one or more wheels on the pavement is a specific offence BUT if the building you have parked it outside has a private forecourt (a section that makes the path wider, which is part of the building plot's footprint) then often these are private property and you can park there without incurring a ticket. Often these areas have panels of glass blocks set in them so that can be smashed to let smoke out if there's a fire.

The fact that you have chained to a lamp-post says that this is unlikely in your case.
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[leiba1]

And to be more finicky on this one, you're not allowed to drive over the pavement either, you have to walk/push the bike to it's spot (front gardens etc included). I once used to park on the pavement outside my local Tesco, next to the trolley bay and definitely Tesco frontage. The warden firstly tried to ticket me for pavement parking but had to abandon that when he was told it wasn't 'his' bit of pavement. He then stood there waiting, camera in hand, to catch me driving off over the pavement. He failed there too.

[Stoo]

[hellkat]

[TheDonUK]

I park outside my barbers when im getting a haircut, it has the afformentioned square glass floor, with just enough space for one bike, they tell me its part of their shop, and i have never been hasseled there.

But then at work i have been ticketed for parking on a pavement for no more than 2 mins. Bike bays were full, parked the bike completely out the way of anything against a greyed out shop window,went inside to pick up, out within 2 mins, the warden was already half way down the road and a ticket on my mirror by the time i got out. It was a slow day and that cunt cost me a days wages, i rode around all day thinking, im not even getting paid for this...

Westminster wardens are just arrogant cunts, hungry for nothing else but dishing as many tickets as possible... If in doubt ticket it. Most of the time they have an arrogant swagger walking their patch, leisurely crossing the road, all over the shop. They soon run out the way when you give it a handfull of revs (small but satisfying revenge).

Also they got ones that ride 125 Peds, Honda Dylans and whatnot, I'd imagine a CBT was all thats needed, they ride horribly, and park illegally on the pavement themselves while issuing tickets. I have come to blows with one such ped-warden. Again Cunts.

Then you have boroughs like Brent, sitting on the bike the other day with my 2 Pound chicken burger meal from Sams Chicken on Willesden High Road (NW10), which is incidentally one of the better chicken shops in london... A black-uniformed brent warden (westminster are shitty purple/dayglow) was walking towards me on the other side of this quiet side road. I was giving him the look reserved for traffic wardens and their ilk, but it turns out he was a fairly relaxed guy, told me hes paid a wage regardless of tickets issued so will only really ticket for yellow lines. Its just a big gamble parking in london, us who live and work here tend to find little cubby holes where the laws dont apply .



Conclusion:
Dont park on the pavement in london unless you MUST, and westminster traffic wardens are scum.