Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

Young man, you clearly don't remember the days of double parking ;)

Hahaha, no probably not.

Its mental tho. Tower block near me is 120 flats I think. 12 spots in the car park and 8 garages.....

This is becoming more of an issue now - large developments with minimal parking in inner urban areas are being presented as 'sustainable' on the basis that, "uh, well it's the centre of town so they won't need cars will they?"

Of course what happens in practice is you just get hundreds of cars cluttering up adjacent streets, or chugging to the local Waitrose.

The new blocks being built in Putney either come with an underground parking space or nothing.

The residents of those blocks are also unable to apply for resident parking permits for street parking. They should be made aware of this when buying the place.

The areas with no parking restrictions (i.e. no meters or permits required) are far enough away from centre-ville to deter most people, but some of those roads are being used as semi-permanent storage for some vehicles.

Not giving new properties parking demonstrably works in reducing car use.

The harder you make it to own and park a car the more likely people are to use alternative transport.

Some will park on neighbouring streets, but this will make it harder for the people living there to have cars so they might decide to use the bus.

It doesn’t matter how good public transport and cycling / walking infrastructure is, if it’s easy to drive people will drive. Google Stevenage, it has amazing cycling provision that no one uses because the roads are too good.

My street is a particular bad example tbh.
The grass verge is almost 45 degrees and quite high, doesn't need to exist at all and would solve all the problems.
Its single file weaving left and right once all cars are home from work.
I guess when the block was built they dint expect people round here would ever afford cars.

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This is what's happened in my ends (fam). New developments in Lewisham centre (bottom of my road) have no on street parking (there's a small underground).
when the single yellows or loading bays aren't in force they're slammed. Weekends are bonkers (leisure centre too) I wonder where these cars are kept other times, the rest of the area is res permit up to Hilly Fields, people drive in from the 'burbs and get the train and park up there.
I haven't had a car on the road since June (I needed one for work) not missing it at all, has made me hate motor vehicles even more.
I've got 3 immediate neighbours with no cars, so with me too my end of the street is empty. 😊

I work on Great Russell Street (the non-British Museum bit) and the number of riders going the wrong way on the one-way street is so annoying, nearly got taken out by someone when I was crossing the road - I guess you should always look both ways but when you know a road is one-way you get in a habit of just checking one direction.

TL;DR
Don't go the wrong way down a one way street and watch this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW-BPno1LHY

I live in an ex-council flat, and our car park is about to get parking restrictions courtesy of an external contractor.

I have to say I can't wait - the sooner they tow away some of the 90s vintage eyesores that haven't moved for years, the better.

The biggest problem for on street parking is the HGVs though. They park with one set of wheels on the pavement, blocking it and also destroying the surface. Grumble grumble.

I live a narrow road near a train station and we don't have parking permits so it get really busy, often it comes to a stand still when you have drivers coming in from both directions, should really be one way. My biggest bug bear is that we have 5 zip cars permanently parked in our road, have spoken to Zip car but they couldn't careless, the traffic warden I spoke can't do anything as they are tax and insured. *get keys out...

If it was one way people might speed down it, at least the traffic makes it safer. Sort of.

If it’s a big problem nag your local councillor to get it made to residents’ parking only.

5 zip cars could be saving 25 people otherwise owning cars and parking them all on your street.

The 5 zip cars haven't moved in 3 months and don't appear in the app, people want the residents parking but don't want to pay for it. If it was one way it would at least stop the arguments in the middle of the street about who should be reversing, Or the beeping of horns to get the shopping vans out of the way.

But I take your point.

I used to live round there too - on one of the streets between Hilly Fields and Lewisham Way. They always got used a lot by people driving in to use St Johns station, very surprised that bit hasn't been RPZified yet

It can work if you put a residents' parking scheme in place in neighbouring streets. That needs a bit of political nerve though. Down here in Bristol there's huge opposition to RPZs. I'm not sure why, when we lived in an area with one it was great.

I'm surprised that those 5 Zipcars have never moved in 3 months - do you mean they have never been used in 3 months ?
I'd fully understand if you are reluctant to give your location away but I'm interested to know where they are - I can have a word with Zipcar .

The CPZ/RPZ has been spreading up the hill, it's up to Vicars hill now, people still parking up there to use the station though.
I used to live around here in the early 90s - was a bit different then.

The only time they move is when the zip car people valet them and then they only seem to turn them around. Am in the SE19 area, which seems to have become zip car central.

http://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news/cycling-speed-monitors-unveiled-in-london-fields-telling-riders-not-to-go-faster-than-12mph-1-5295143

. “Why is the focus on cyclists when people drive cars?”

Lmfao. Straight in there.
Not on a bike lane, in a park.

That limit is set by park by-laws.
But cyclists probably won’t be penalised if they do, the council said: “Our aim is just to encourage them

This seems fair enough to me. Parks are for humans going at humanish speeds.

^ couldn't agree more. As are pavements.
Mixed use paths >>>>>

But what about everyone else's responsibilities!!!!!!

Except Hackney are keen to maintain roads as car centric and rely on parks as diversions from main roads...

There's no reason parks can't accommodate both, taking direct, expensive action to police cyclists in this manner is misplaced.

Lets not forget they deliberately blurred the space in London fields from a segregated track to shared space...

Chap on a pink bike overtaking a flatbed truck at a pedestrian crossing.

Haha