The Almuñécar Policía Local has announced a crackdown on bikes parking on pavements within the municipality.
The campaign is informative; i.e., people will be told that they can’t leave it there, but for the moment there is no fining taking place.
Officers will inform bike owners that they have to park their motorbikes, mopeds and scooters in designated areas as parking on pavements obstructs pedestrians, especially those with mobility problems.
The campaign will last a week, said Police Chief Sánchez, and that generally residents of Almuñécar and La Herradura are civic minded but it is for the “exceptions” to this that the campaign is aimed.
Editorial comment: providing more parking for bikes, might be a solution. The parking slots are too short, so if you have a back box on your bike, it sticks out into the traffic, unless you roll it in backwards, in which case it protrudes into the pavements – you can’t win.
(News/Noticias: Almunecar, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)
I understand this but as a scooter rider where do you then park. Are you supposed to park in a parking bay (what ever colour) and then has a car driver it annoys me that car parking spaces are full of bikes and why can they not simply park in a bike bay, oh yes there are hardly any. I was at a well known supermarket yesterday and there are just enough spaces to park four bikes in the bay, or like yesterday two due to a large Harley parked there. If you park your bike between cars you run the risk of damage so what is the answer. It seems the norm these days by local authorties to understand a problem, attempt to deal with it by passing it on to another group of people. Surely the answer is to first have more bike bays and then stop people leaving them on the pavement, or have I got thet wrong.