There's a thing that you can do called "keying" where you drag your keys or another metal object across the paint of a car when the owner has parked it shittily. I believe all those cars are parked shittily.
this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2026
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Edinburgh has a fixed penalty to drivers who park on pavements, verges, crossing points.... But not bike lanes
Edinburgh literally has the best bus network in Britain, and extensive pedestrian only areas. It's one of the most pedestrian friendly places I've lived. The cycle paths need improving though.
Best bus network, yet walking is often faster. That doesnt bode well for the rest of britain lol.
I agree its very pedestrian friendly, and in town bicycle paths need improvements ye
That doesnt bode well for the rest of britain lol.
That observation is correct
Oh lord, guess i know whats to come when i visit manchester one day. Ive been spoiled with Edinburgh as my introduction to the uk haha
Manchester is also way better than the average, as long as you stay close to the centre. A lot of public transport has been de-privatised in the last few years as it was the first place to do so after regional mayors were granted the authority to do that (in large part because the regional mayor had been lobbying to get the authority to do that), so now there are more buses and they're better and cheaper.
Design issue that would be resolved by a curb which should be there if it’s a dedicated parking area.
It is inconvenient but at least there is a large bicycle path.
For something similar here on a pavement, im really tempted to spray paint a line up all the cars in line with the curb but too worried that I'll be the only one getting into trouble. Maybe if theres a washable one or I could get a few people together to protest
there are sprays that use chalk (used as construction markers too)
they can be washed and they're very very very visible
Exclusively using chalk paint hasn't done much to protect Just Stop Oil from unreasonable consequences.
care to elaborate?
Well there's the obvious stuff like how the news always implies it's regular paint, with the more balanced outlets typically vox-popping someone who thinks the painty thing has been permanently ruined without the reporter correcting them, and the right-wing outlets explicitly saying the object has been permanently ruined.
If I have the lap bar open on my stroller, there's this connecting piece of metal that really scrapes paint jobs...
I have the biggest hard on to become one of those ppl who dispenses parking violation tickets to ppl who disagree to what signage means.
At least there is no dooring-zone
Rather have a dooring zone than blindly backing into traffic and praying.
In the dooring zone all you have to do is look.
The result is more or less the same isn't it? At least when people back into traffic they seem to pay a little more attention.
No because in a dooring zone i can look to see when it's clear. In this type of parking i can't see through a car next to me and so have to reverse without being able to see when its clear.
Unless I've misunderstood what you meant by "dooring zone".
If you ride close to the cars in streets with parallel parked cars you're in the dooring zone. Someone doesn't check if there's a cyclist approaching, opens the door and you ride into the door because you can't react fast enough. Usually you can't look into the cars ahead of you, at least I rarely can. You should keep some distance from those cars, but sometimes bike lanes are in the dooring zone.
All those cars are parked nose out. They're driving forward to leave.
I like that a lot more than parallel parking with a bike lane protected by paint. There they have good protection, the drivers can see the cyclists when they're parking or unparking, that only fault is the bike lane is also the driveway for accessing that parking, but even then it's low speed
Even with the encroachment there's loads of room
Look again, this is obviously pull-in parking.
Nobody here is driving forward to leave. Wdym?
Across the bike path and through the nature strip? No.
Lies. This can't be Edinburgh. It's too flat. /j