The image in the article shows a car blocking the footpath.
Every person complaining in this article was actually blocking the footpath: because they don’t think the kerb crossing is footpath they think it’s their driveway, I imagine it’s the same for the berm crossing that is actually public property too.
a vehicle parked alongside any part of a kerb crossing provided for a driveway or within 1m of the prolongation of the side of a driveway must be regarded as obstructing entry or exit.
It’s endemic where I live, I assume it’s the same everywhere.
I do however agree that the council should probably have advertised that they were going to start actually enforcing the rules.
I get it, storage of your vehicle is more important than everyone else’s use of the roadway.
I suspect, obviously without evidence, that the complainants probably also complain about having to mow “the council’s berms” too, without a shred of irony :-)
On the topic of the berm; I don’t mind mowing mine but I really wish the council had free green waste collection for it given up here its pretty much 90% weeds and I don’t want to compost those clippings into my own garden just to introduce their weeds :)
I find paying for green waste collection a little on the nose: it’s valuable raw material. Especially when you’re buying it back again as compost!
Our garden has been contaminated with weeds from other lawns etc. from mowing and DIY compost it’s kind of annoying/disappointing.
Yeah, lawn weeds are frustrating, I compound it by refusing to water the grass when it dries out so its on me (and climate change) in part as well. One consolation is that you can’t eat the grass, so in some ways it would be better to rip it all up and turn it to some more productive use anyway :)