Path Clearance and Path Blocking

Cut Bushes
There is a stack like a large bonfire in the field alongside Mill Road and by the River Ock.
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A nearby footpath easily gets grown over, and the stack appears to be the cuttings, chippings and choppings.
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During the first lockdown part of the walk had been fenced off and now the dogleg path round some garden decking has been reinstated.

We walked it yesterday. It is narrow and so not ideal in these social distance days but we got all the way without meeting anybody.
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On the way home I read a couple of notices stuck to a car windscreen. The car was parked against a kerb lowered to allow wheelchair access.

It is easily done in error but is more than a moral issue. Rule 243 of the Highway Code identifies where you are not allowed to park. One of the restrictions is that you can’t part where the kerb is lowered to provide easier access for wheelchairs and powered mobility vehicles.

4 thoughts on “Path Clearance and Path Blocking

  1. Geoffrey Bailey

    Part of this rule states that you should not park on any kerbs in London. Why just London. In Abingdon people park cars and lorries half on and half on the kerbs everywhere. It is about time people that do this were fined. Also near me others insist on parking their vehicles on street corners blocking the view to access other roads.

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  2. Sandra hills

    A good job done clearing foot path one, Looking forward to seeing the bridleway 17 to Marcham open it has been blocked for far to long as well as footpath 8 Sunningwell Quarry that is blocked with a wire Fence by land owner and was to be opened on December 17th 2019

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  3. PPJS

    This very frustrating for residents, but in Mill Road nearly every household has more than one car. Quite a few have three. The houses were designed when cars were narrower and could be parked in the garage. More safety features (particularly airbags) have made cars wider. Our VW Polo could be driven into our garage, but you wouldn’t get able to open the doors to get out.

    Even on some the builds erected in the past five years, the garages are too small for a modest family car. So people use the garage for other purposes and park on driveways and along narrow roads.

    Finding a solution will lead to a lot of splinters under fingernails 😉

    A new edition of the Highway Code is to be released shortly. It will be interesting to see what it says about parking.

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  4. The Lady

    PARKING IN ABINGDON AND ALSO NEGOTIATING ONE’S WAY AROUND ABINGDON AS A VISUAL IMPAIRED PERSON IS A NIGHTMARE..THERE IS NO ONE WHO ENFORCES THE DISGRACEFUL SELFISH PARKING ON FOOTPATHS AND THE NUMBER OF BOARDS AND TABLES AND CHAIRS AROUND THE TOWN IS A DISGRACE!

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