An Edinburgh resident upset with the state of the pavement on the route she takes regularly has urged drivers to ind elsewhere to park.
Taking to Twitter to express her frustration, Jane Carnall shared a photo of a shattered Starbank Road pavement in Newhaven, followed by a series of pictures of various cars parked half through the pavement's width.
Showcasing how some parked cars leave half of the pavement for pedestrian use and others take up too much space for a pushchair or a wheelchair user to pass by, Jane said: "We're so used to seeing this kind of thing.
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"The expectation is that, of course, drivers get to use the pavement to park their cars, and pedestrians should be grateful for just enough space to get by."
Recalling how her elderly great-aunt, who sadly passed away in 2001 at the age of 93, had a real difficulty in the last years of her life getting from her front door to the main road due to the badly damaged pavement, Jane spoke out on how unsafe pavement-parking can be.
Jane said: "Pavement parking is important to tackle both because when cars block pavements, they make them unsafe or impossible to use for pedestrians - especially people using walking aids, or in wheelchairs, or pushing buggies.
"The physical damage the weight of the cars does to the paving stones also makes the pavement uneven and less safe to walk on and, of course, costs us all when the council has to repair it."
Acknowledging that pavement parking is legal anywhere else in the UK outside of London, Jane said: "Drivers could improve the situation by not parking on the pavement, even if they're legally allowed to do so.
"I don't know what process would be needed to paint double yellow lines on the road - but at the moment, there is no means by which either council or police could enforce any penalty on the drivers selfishly pavement-parking on that stretch of road."
A City of Edinburgh Council spokesperson confirmed that there are no parking restrictions on this road, and pavement parking prohibitions have not yet come into effect. However, people can report irresponsible driving to the police.
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