Fantastic new off road car parking facility

As you can see in this photo, drivers have decided that it is perfectly OK to block the cycle track (signed as a safe route to school) and half the footway in Pickering Road, Barking. There is apparently no enforcement. When and if it starts I suppose there will be loud complaints along the lines of  "we parked there before and got away with it. How come you've given us a ticket now?"

I cut my cycle campaigning teeth teeth campaigning about this area when I lived there. When the new estate was designed they ignored cycling (surprise!) and it was only campaigning that achieved this ill thought out cycle track. I had to read nonsensical arguments based on incorrect information about the traffic schemes that previously existed. I campaigned for the new flats and houses to have cycle storage, but I see bikes in front gardens chained to the railings, so I take it they haven't, and of course people move in without a thought for where they can park their car, hence this blatant illegal parking.