Edinburgh has become Scotland’s first local authority to enforce against pavement parking today, Monday, January 29.
Parking attendants were enforcing the ban for the first time today, with supporters of the scheme delighted that enforcement has got underway against pavement parking in the city.
Parking attendants were enforcing the ban for the first time today, with supporters of the scheme delighted that enforcement has got underway against pavement parking in the city.
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00:00 Edinburgh became Scotland's first local authority to enforce against pavement parking today,
00:06 Monday 29th January. So we went up to Craiglockhart to see the enforcement in action and also
00:12 to speak to some locals and campaigners who welcomed this new law.
00:17 Okay, well pavements are for people, for pedestrians, they're not places where cars should be, they
00:25 inconvenience everyone really and they can be quite a hazard for a lot of people, some
00:29 of the people that are here today. So this has been a long battle to get a parking ban
00:36 on pavements, so it's really good to celebrate that today.
00:39 Happy day then?
00:40 A very happy day, so obviously with the proof of the pudding in the enforcement, but I think
00:46 a lot of motorists have kind of realised that it's really not a sensible thing to do to
00:51 park on the pavement, so hopefully people will voluntarily just keep off the pavements
00:56 and leave them for pedestrians.
00:58 Yeah, so it's really difficult if you're a parent pushing a buggy or a pram to negotiate
01:02 the pavement when there's cars parked, you have to go into the road, which is obviously
01:04 quite dangerous, especially when you've got kids, so it's really good that they've brought
01:08 this ban in today.
01:10 Today marks the start of the enforcement of Edinburgh's pavement parking ban, long, long
01:15 overdue and I'm actually quite excited about the prospect of, you know, because this is
01:19 a huge step towards making Edinburgh a more equal city.
01:23 With the pavement parking ban now in place in Edinburgh, supporters of the scheme will
01:27 be hoping to see less cars parked on our pavements.
01:30 Thank you.
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