h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Pavement parkers can also be good citizens by allowing access to milk lorries, school buses and emergency services - especially when the road is narrow and *not* parking on the pavement would cause an obstruction. This happened to me once. Like a good citizen I parked on a narrow stretch of road adjacent to my property, wheels of the car tucked neatly against the side of the pavement, only to be rudely awoken (at 6am or some unearthly hour) by the sound of an irate driver hooting his horn and blaspheming. I dutifully moved my car so that sufficient of it was on the pavement to allow the lorry to proceed. Incidentally, I had just moved home and didn't know the drill, as it were. To ensure uninterrupted sleep, I soon got in the habit of pavement parking. Blow me, a few weeks after along comes PC BUCKETHEAD and gives me a ticket. To cut a long story short, he told me that I should buy a smaller car (and there was I thinking I'd be better off investing in a chieftain tank). I wouldn't of minded but parking on the pavement wasn't causing any obstruction - even two fat ladies walking side by side, blindfolded, inebrieted, and with heavy shopping would have no trouble gliding past. PC BUCKETHEAD also informed me that it doesn't matter how much of the car is in contact with the pavement - it's either on or off. Talk about margin of error, black and white narrow-mindedness. If you're going to get hung for it you may as well park the whole f***ing thing on the pavement and be done with it. By the way, do you think garages are for wimps?
Anyhow, your entry is a winner!

I sympathise with your plight. It can be difficult to find good place to park. (wherever you park if someone needs to use that piece of road, then you are causing an obstuction and that's an offence too). Around my way cars are often parked on the pavement on both sides of the road. It is just possible to weave a car through the gap, but not Fire engines etc!! If they were stopped from parking on the pavement they wouldn't be able to parked on the road as it would block the road completely, thus they would have to park elsewhere. This would allow emergency vehicles access. The problem is the 'elsewhere'.

If your pavement is as wide as you suggest, you maybe able to persuade the council to create parking bays. Alternatively you could make a parking place in your front garden, if suitable (this is what I did). Other alternatives are to park in another road and walk back to you house or move house.