No available parking in narrow streets

[sicbadserv]

Brisbane City Council will fine you if you park on a footpath. I have no argument with this. But if the area is grassed and there is no designated footpath as such, the street is too narrow to even have a centre white line and, between 9 houses in a cul-de-sac, only 2 visitor parking spaces have been supplied; what do they expect visitors to do if both these have been taken up? One is used permanently by a resident as their private parking spot, they have a double garage but 3 cars, and the other is used by a commuter as a park-and-ride leaving no spaces for visitors. On the day we were issued the fine my husband had parked our car close to our daughter's house in front of her gate because both visitor parking spaces, as usual, were taken as were the spaces in her driveway. At the time our daughter was recovering from a major foot operation, was still on crutches and had great difficulty walking, my husband also had had procedures done on both feet. We wondered how the Council knew he had parked there as this is a small, off-the-beaten-track street and not one we have ever seen patrolled? Could there be a dobber in the street? My husband wrote to the Council the day he got the fine explaining the circumstances and reason for parking where he did. They replied quoting the Council parking regulation; he replied; they replied, he rang, they sympathised but still to no avail. This is obviously Council's way of revenue raising to harrass 70 year old pensioners who can ill afford $100 out of a meagre fortnightly pension. The moral of this story .... don't park on the grass just in case it is designated by the Council as a footpath.

[Iseveryonehappy]

"We wondered how the Council knew .... Could there be a dobber in the street?

Most defiantly you have council "stooly",most likely on the payroll, every time they dob someone in.. so next time you got out to the letterbox behind one of those lace curtains,someones watching you and your family's every move ... Id find out who they and then expose them to the whole neighborhood so they`d have to move...either that or like that was reported here in Melbourne's second city, Dandenong, council can see from satellite pictures if your using water to wash your drive or watering your lawns .....But sicbadserv, you've got to remember that councils got to somehow get funds to be able to travel first class to Rome Monte Carlo etc etc with their partners on rate payers funds ..bad luck

[DG58]

"so next time you got out to the letterbox behind one of those lace curtains,someones watching you and your family's every move ... Id find out who they and then expose them to the whole neighborhood so they`d have to move."

God help us if we can't look out the window anymore because "imneverhappy" is going to make our lives miserable so much we'll have to move.

[Iseveryonehappy]

DG58, Council and the local police are no doubt watching you via satellite pictures, as I type, cultivating that suspicious plant life in your back yard.But this isnt about You DG58, its about "sicbadserv" wondering why they were targeted with a parking fine..BUT you know what DG58 ? ...if you were living with in Cooee! (IPA /ku:'i:/), of my house, id be watching you like a hawk.....

[DG58]

"BUT you know what DG58 ? ...if you were living with in Cooee! (IPA /ku:'i:/), of my house, id be watching you like a hawk.."

How do you know i dont???

I think you need help.

[Legless]

Well the are between your property line and the street is footpath whether it has a concrete "pathway" or not. Under the council's parking regs expect to be fined. I'm not saying it's necessarily right or even fair in many circumstances but it's how it is.

One can't even park in one's own driveway if the car is on the part considered to be footpath. Nor can one park (or stop) on the street if the car obstructs the driveway even it it's your own and no one else is going to be using your driveway.

[aus_koala]

If the car is registered and there are no "no parking" or no "no standing" signs then just park along the road edge. IF it is a cul-de-sac then there will be no through traffic nand people wanting to do a u-turn can do it in someones driveway.

I have a problem in my business in that I use a trailer on my vehicle. In some areas there are "service roads" parralel to major arterials. The local councils have decided to put restricted parking times along these service roads and left nowhere for service vehicles to pull up for short periods of time to service the properties. The driveways are not wide enough between fence and house to unload equipment and as pointed out I am not allowed to park across the footpath. They have also informed me I am not allowed to park on the median strip between the main arterial road and the service road (yet the council vehicles do this on a regular basis and contract companies doing council contracts also break these rules). I have applied to council for an exemption however they sent me some crap reply and did not even ackowledge my request for an exemption just a statement saying there is ample parking in the area, of which, for service vehicles", there are not.

Council parking space designers and town plannners are not as smart as they perceive themselves to be.

[Thing]

You have to be careful in Brisbane as not every street has parking signs HOWEVER there is a city parking area that extends 2-3 km's out into the surrounding suburbs for which you can only park for 2 hours in streets without specific parking signage.
There are large signs indicating this on major aerials into the city therefore you are deemed to have been advised.

[computerflyer]

Shhhh Thing! If too many innocents learn how it works and fines go down, the councils will stop putting up perimeter signs and just put a notice in the classifieds of a single paper once per month among the legal notices and tenders, and claim that is proper notice of parking restrictions! And change them every so often to keep us off balance.