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Councils call for pavement parking to be banned across England
(www.bbc.co.uk)
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Should not means you can. You're just a very naughty boy.
If that were true, the text could read “ You MUST NOT park partially or wholly on the pavement unless signs permit it. “
Interesting that it mentions London specifically. How do they cope? There are loads of terraced streets. Do they pay for nearby parking lots or is it just that they, unlike everywhere else, kept their public transport network
So if, as a council, we want to ban pavement parking around a bunch of terraces... or even just seriously restrict it, like to one side, can we make sure that there are cycle paths and bus routes then ban it and work stepwise across the town? 'asking for a friend (Cheltenham)'
The law is NOT there for "should" statements in the Highway Code. "Shoulds" are considered best practice, and can work against you in a careless/dangerous driving case if you didn't follow them, but they are not themselves tied to any specific legislation. "Must" statements ARE backed up by legislation, and so can be enforced.
The highway code is not law.
You also can't get fined if you don't break a law.
Nope : rules in the Code which are legal requirements, and which you will be committing a criminal offense if you disobey, use the words “must/must not.” Violating other parts of the Code, which use the words “should/should not” or “do/do not”, can be used as evidence against you in Traffic Court, even if violating them is not an automatic criminal offense
Do you have something to back that up? It seems very odd that London would be named specially as must not then a second clause for the remainder of the country that sounds different. Surely it should either be "you must not park on the pavement" or if there's some archaic reason that London needs specific wording "you must not park on the pavement in London, and you must not park on the pavement elsewhere "
No it doesn't seem to be in there. According to the highway code
No where does it say if an area is named specially as a must not, and another area is named as a should not in the same rule then the should not must be treated as a must not.
Or is there some case law maybe that you're referring to?