Edinburgh’s pavement parking ban, introduced at the end of January this year, saw less fines in April compared to previous months. The drop in offenders being issued fines is seen as an indicator that the compliance level and acceptance by motorists is increasing.

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Edinburgh’s banned pavement parking scheme commenced at the end of January 2024, issuing fines of £100 for vehicles not complying. In total, 2,313 tickets have been issued to offenders in the first three months up until the end of April.

However, the City Council are seeing the ban as a success case - the number of tickets issued per month has dropped from 925 tickets in March to 644 tickets in April. Complaints on pavement parking, double parking and parking at dropped crossings have also almost halved, from a peak of 1,316 in February to 687 in April.

The pavement parking ban was introduced to keep pavements free of obstacles, mainly for people with reduced mobility, such as wheelchair users, or people with buggies or prams. Prior to the start of the ban, 556 “red” streets were marked by the council as having problems with pavement parking. After the first three months of enforcing the ban, this figure was down to just 7 streets. These streets continue to see problems such as cars parking on the road, leaving too little space for bin lorries to pass by. Edinburgh Council is considering measures such as yellow lines on the pavement to safeguard sufficient space for bin lorries and emergency vehicles to pass by parked cars.

Councillor Scott Arthur, Convener of the Transport and Environment Committee, stated: “The number of complaints is starting to fall because compliance is quite high. Things are starting to normalise. I’m proud of how the council officers have implemented this ban, but even prouder of how the public in Edinburgh have responded to it. It really has been transformative in a lot of areas, making it a safer and more equal city.”

  • @[email protected]English
    14•5 months ago

    Are we talking about parking on the sidewalk and stuff? Weird that there were no laws before against it. But better this than a law that is not applied like in France where people do it even though it’s forbidden but the rules are not applied so they don’t care

    • Baggins
      2•5 months ago

      That happens here (Hertford, UK) all too often as well. Entitled people park where they like.
      I was in the post office the other week, a woman in front of me was paying some parking tickets (via postal order) for her husband. Apparently he can afford it and it doesn’t bother him.

      Personally I think after a certain number, the car should be taken and crushed. That will bother him.