To remove the parking cones?

Surely there is somewhere between the school and the train station that has on street parking that may not be taking up a residents only parking space? Outside someone house with a drive etc?

I think you'll be asking for trouble dumping your car there all day from early morning to early evening, I suspect things may start to happen to it, especially if you are moving cones to access it.

They may have carers coming in 4 times a day so want to leave the space free, or they may just think they own the road, either way it is bloody annoying for someone to block residents from parking when there are alternatives they could find if they could be bothered to walk more than 1 minute to the school gates.

I wouldn't stick cones out, and I understand the legalities, but OP is being quite inconsiderate with the length and frequency of parking there. Essentially she's ensuring nobody else can ever park there during the day! If it's more than once or twice a week or for more than a couple of hours, then most considerate folk would consider using the nearby car park. Folk living in those houses may be as busy/more busy than OP, yet her busyness is somehow deemed more important.

What is the female equivalent of mansplaining?

If you mean the cone i think thats because op is actually legally entitled to park there, whereas the resident isnt entitled to obstruct a public highway.

It is different because OP isn't placing cones in the road to save the spot for herself or asking others to move so she can park there. Anyone can park there, when a space is free.

The fact that there is a cone there shows that someone, whether residents or school, are not happy with people parking on a residential street for a full day. So yes move the cone if you've really got no alternative but I'd guess it's just a matter or time before it is designated residents parking only.

On this thread it's ok if OP does it, but not if others do it, apparently.

Meh, we all do stuff thats "entitled" at times that puts others out. Every single one of us. Just about different things 🤷‍♀️

Anyone who says they arent is either lying through their teeth or they genuinely dont realise it.

I can work out why it's different to those with similar views to OP, yes.

It is a public road indeed, not the long stay car park OP has decided it is. HTH

It is true, even if entitled folk like you don't see it.
Sounds like you don't understand what resorting to insults in debates reveals. HTH

But unless the school and station are brand new they must have known when they bought the house that it would get school and commuter traffic?

People do not have the right to cone off public streets, end of story.

OP is getting moaned at from one side for putting her kids in Wraparound at 7.30 and moaned at from the other side for not getting them up earlier to walk from a train station to school!

You don’t need to justify yourself to the arseholes.

you are doing nothing wrong - either in your work life choices or parking choices.

You can of course remove the cone, it's a public road, you can do whatever you want.

However, (and for full disclosure I live by a school), why would you deliberately make the residents life more difficult just to make your life easier. Yes they chose to live by a school, as did I, but when they moved in there may have been far fewer cars etc and far less of a problem each day. You equally chose to work the hours you do, to give yourself such a tight timescale. Why does your need trump theirs?

This is completely different. I’m sure you can work out why.

No, it's the public highway. If the council agreed that the residents should have priority, they would put residents' parking in place.

The station car park is probably expensive and she has already explained that it would actually take her longer to park and she would probably miss her train.

Why can’t you use (and pay) for the station car park? Residential roads aren’t long stay car parks. They’re there for residents, guests to park. People to nip to the local shops etc.

Stop being tight and pay for parking.

Just because you buy a house you have no entitlement to the public road in front of it. The OP has as much right to park there as anyone else including residents of that street. It’s a public road. Public I can’t emphasise this enough.

You can keep saying that as much as you like, it won't make it true.

I can see you are particularly aggravated by this topic. Sounds like you need to get a better paid job and buy a house with off street parking.

It might be frustrating but they have chosen to live there knowing there is inadequate off-road or allocated parking. These houses are walking distance to a train station with a commuter service to London. Guaranteed that the owners/tenants of these valuable houses did not choose them out of financial necessity.

Everyone is exercising their free choice to live where they want and can afford, and to choose the parking solution that suits them the best.

The only person who has done anything wrong is the person trying to claim part of the public highway as though it forms part of their property when it doesn't.

It does.
HTH

No it doesn't. She's chosen the parking option that suits her best. A bit like when you go to the supermarket, provided you don't use the disabled spaces or parent and child spaces if you're not entitled to them, you're entitled to choose the space which is most convenient for you even if it means that someone else has to park further away.

But only when OP exercises it?