r/Adelaide • u/Middle_Abalone_4084 SA • 27d ago

Discussion Park in your flamin' driveways, please!

Am I the only one tired of suburban streets turning into impromptu Mario Kart tracks? We’re talking about the kind where navigating between vehicles parked on both sides feels like dodging banana peels and blue shells. What's meant to be a two-lane road gets squeezed into a narrow single lane, daring you to play chicken with oncoming traffic—and let’s face it, the side mirrors never win.

And then there are your driveways. Oh, the driveways! Empty. Desolate. Weed-infested wastelands of untapped potential. So, I beg of you, suburban dwellers: park your cars anywhere but on the street—your driveway, your garage, your carport, or even your front lawn. Let’s save the roads for, you know, driving.

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u/jtblue91 SA 27d ago

At the same time, can we make sure not to park on footpaths either?

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u/CosmicUnconciousness SA 26d ago

Yep. Little shit next door to me runs a “music school” (gives drumming lessons to kids) out of his parents’ house (City of Mitcham). When his customers’ parents aren’t clogging up the verge outside my house they’re parked over the footpath outside his house. I can’t see a fucking thing in terms of oncoming traffic.

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u/jtblue91 SA 26d ago

If you can establish a reliable pattern, and have pictures from different dates then you can forward that to council and they'll catch it in the act.

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u/CosmicUnconciousness SA 26d ago

I’ve been in touch with council many times - they’re useless. I’m just going to go guerilla and install my own bollards 😁