QUOTE(abubin @ Jul 14 2010, 08:28 PM)
the road outside your house does not belong to you. So, there really is nothing much to be done. If it is due to pasar malam then you can complain to local municipal. Or do something like put cones or some heavy thing during pasar malam night.
But if it is not related to pasar malam then you are being too much. The road outside your house (at the side) does not belongs to you. You cannot stop people from parking there. Just like how you sometimes also park in such spaces outside other people's house.
When it's so bad that it causes inconvenience then that is different story. I see a lot of houses, they put lots of potted plants there and I find these people very selfish and I don't understand why they do not want people to park there as it does not block their entrance.
Look at the house below:
The owner is in corner lot. He/She build a wall at the side of the house. It is actually an access road. Use it for parking his/her cars.
I support Abubin's opinion. We should not be too selfish.
If we all start to barricade the space infront of our house so that nobody will park there, then our friends and visitors would face big problem when they want to visit us. It will virtually impossible to come to your house by car. They have to park at the nearby public car park, which could be kilometers away and then walk to your house?
***And I believe everyone of us in one way or another has parked infront of other people's house before.
The correct way i think is everybody has to be responsible over the things they do. WHEN YOU PARK OUTSIDE PEOPLE's HOUSE, YOU HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU DO NOT CREATE PROBLEM to the surrounding neighbourhood. YOU HAVE TO ALSO MAKE SURE THAT YOU ARE CONTACTABLE(PUT YOUR HANDPHONE NUMBER INFRONT OF THE CAR). It is the same thing also when someone do double parking.
I believe also that lots of GOOD people has no choice but to park at residential area because there is simply no more parking available.
However, we all know outside there are lots of irresponsible peopel that create lots of problems for us. While we try to enforce our own method onto others, maybe the more proper way is to provide evidence to the authority for their action.