Not enough Drop curbs is problem with my disability

I think this is an issue in most places but I find mainly its people parking over dropped kerbs or also parking halfway on the pavement and the road meaning a wheelchair or even a pram cant get past then you have to go back to find a drop kerb so you can get on the road to pass the parked car putting yourself in danger.

There is a disabled parking area in my town centre where there are no drop kerbs at the end of the parking bays so you have to go onto the road until you come to the crossing , whoever planned this obviously doesnt use a wheelchair

Dropped kerbs alone aren't designed to be crossings.  They're for cars to cross the pavement to reach a property (the only time it's legal to drive on a pavement).

It sounds like you're after more specific crossings but they take a lot more planning to ensure it's at a safe point for the person crossing, with good visibility for both driver and pedestrian, and that also won't interrupt traffic flow.  On busier roads they obviously have to put in zebra, toucan or pelican crossings to ensure that cars will stop.

As for people parking half on a pavement, it winds me up no end both on foot and as a driver...presumably they feel it's better than parking fully on the road, but it just ends up restricting both the road and the pavement causing twice as much inconvenience!  Sadly it's a necessity in some modern estates though, they've been built too tight despite knowing exactly how many private cars each home is likely to own now.

My Mom uses a mobility scooter and lives on a main road. The nearest dropped curb to her house is 100 yards away and as it is a main road she can't really go on the road. 

littleacorn said:

Last week I used a crossing with a central island. Dropped kerb off pavement, dropped kerb to access the island in the middle of the road, dropped kerb to get off the island but no dropped kerb to get on pavement at the other side. What also annoys me is you get onto the pavement via a dropped kerb along the pavement for quite some distance then no dropped kerb to get off. So off you go back along the pavement to get off and then along the road which is unsafe to get to where you need to be.

I find I can get down most pavement drops without issue - but up to a certain height. I have a TGA Vita Midi which is not the fastest and has bad suspension but takes the knocks well. 

My husband has been in a wheelchair for about a year and I think I was probably naive about the rights of wheelchair users.  I expected it to be a right for him to leave our house in his wheelchair and go into town safely.  Apparently not.  Our house is a gable end and the road and pavement runs up the end of our house.  However, there are no dropped kerbs on that pavement or any others near our house.  We have a ramp onto the road for his scooter and he is using that for his wheelchair but, as it goes straight onto a road it is dangerous (not that it is a busy road).  We were told to contact our county council but they said they had no money until this year's financial year.  We contacted them again and they misunderstood thinking we want to lower the pavement for a vehicle to get onto our property.  We were told to contact our borough council, who then told us to get in touch with social services.  Social Services say we need to talk to the Highways Department of the county council, so we are going round in circles.  Apparently. another issue is a communal path that runs through all the gardens parallel to the row of 6 cottages.  The gate is on the same side as the gable end and comes out on to the pavement that runs up the side of the house.  Social Services said we would be more likely to get somewhere if the path was owned solely by us, as they would have to make a way for him to get out and include dropping the kerbs on the public pavement for safety.  Because you have to use the communal path to get to the public pavement they cannot do anything about it.