it's the pavement, and it's a busy road, plus there's a bus stop just out of sight there on both sides of the road to the left of the picture

and there's a corner to the right, with traffic islands etc going on

i'll take some snaps to show you what it's like in the real world tomorrow morning

so while it's not going to be illegal, it's going to be very very dangerous to park on the main road, which is why that litle service road was bilt in and our front gardens shortened