John Boyle
This begs an interesting question about the legality of parking on the pavement in places like some residential suburbs of Newcastle. There the pavement is flagged for pedestrians and there is a car width of tarmac in front of all the houses separated from the road by a shallow 45 degree kerb. Everybody parks on it but AFAICS there are no signs explicitly permitting this.
And I confess I did twitch yesterday when I noticed a police vehicle pull up on the pavement behind my car. However, he too was just parking off the road to visit next door. Parking on the road itself would be legal but suicidal since it would seriously obstruct traffic on a road narrowed by this signifiicant enlargement of the "pavements".
On the original topic does anyone else find the direction of these modern fancy sirens virtually imposisble to determine?
I would (and have) gone partially onto the kerb to give an emergency vehcile the necessary space to get through a tight spot in standing traffic. What else can you do?
Sit in the car like a complete moron and obstruct his progress though a 2 mile solid traffic jam leading up to the serious RTA? Is that really what they intend to teach?
Teching people not to stop dead in completely stupid places like paralysed rabbits caught in headlamps *would* be worthwhile. I have seen that happen too many times.
Regards, Martin Brown
