Rant Alert! Parking on pavements!

What is it about a certain part of the motoring public that thinks that they can block pavements by parking on them?
Pavements are for people - roads are for cars.
Round here there are a number of partially sighted people, old biddies in those dreadful motorised shopping carts, lots of mothers (and probably fathers too) with push-chairs - so why do selfish bl**dy drivers think that these people don't exist?
Parking on the footway, even just a teeny weeny bit of it, is not only is dangerous, because the poor old pedestrian has too go out into the road to get round the tin-can, but the tin-can is damaging the footway too - which has to be paid for out of taxation - that is the council tax.
AND another thing! Don't get me started on the selfish winghing of the poor motorist when it comes to "Car Tax" - get real -there is no such thing - read it again Car tax does not exist - what the keeper of the car pays (that's the keeper, not the driver) is Vehicle Exise Duty - which is a tax that allows him (or her) to keep the car on the road. VED does not pay for the roads, it does not buy a patch of roadspace, or a parking space - it is a general tax.
I seem to recall reading (no I can't reference it) that if the motorist had to pay the true cost of motoring the tax would be somewhere nearer £2500 a year.
The roads (and footways) are paid for out of general taxation - most significantly out of Council Tax, which everyone pays, including pedestrians, cyclists, horse riders, and bl**dy selfish car drivers. Remember motorist - when you moan about cyclists, or pedestrians not paying road tax - they are paying for that road you are driving on, and not using the benefit of that payment.

Don't park on the pavement, it's dangerous and its' anti-social.

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No I've not received my Dutch Flyer tickets. No there's still no contact details on the DutchFlyer website - and yes it's looking like a shambles.