Joffe,

A little dramatic, don't you think? Cars are parked like this every day, I doubt very much that they are all doing so because a life is in danger. It is therefore pretty safe to say, that the driver was doing it for their own personal benefit, and no one else's.

As for the angle, why should all the cyclists (and there are quaite alot) have to get off and walk through the entrance, just because a driver (potentially the same one all day) decides to block the entrance.

As for the driver not wishing to block the barrier for the fire brigade. Park somewhere else, you wouldn't block someones drive so why is it okay to block a pedestrian/cyclist entrance?