AIBU to think school street restrictions and PCNs will cause more chaos?

A taxi driver i know picked an elderly woman up to take her to A&E and got a fine - I guess the council would say call an ambulance?

This is ridiculous.

1. They should surely start actually fining the parents who park stupidly, not anyone who is parked normally outside a house.
2. 8am and 9.30 is far longer than it needs to be - if you can't leave your child at school till 8.40 say, and all the children need to go in by 8.50, it only needs to be restricted 8.30-8.50. No-one will park from 8am, move their car elsewhere then at 8.30 (still 10 mins before they can leave their children) walk to school from the new spot and then, go back to their car, move it to the restricted area at 8.50 and sit their before driving off!

They introduced one here and it lasted less than a term, it simply didn’t work as it caused gridlock across the town and parents still drive and clogged up the next road along

We have one of those. It does not cause chaos and we no longer have parents sitting in their cars with their engines idling. Drivers are capable of reading the sign saying it's a school street.

As a supply teacher I refuse to work in any schools in such zones.

Seems particularly unfair that residents with cars can obviously still access, but someone who doesn't drive, who doesn't generally contribute much to congestion, can't get an occasional taxi.

Local tradespeople will just refuse to work at those premises. It’s too inconvenient for them if they need to nip out and get parts etc. and they can’t park for the way if they have lots of gear / equipment. Plus it’s not safe to leave a van loaded with tools / materials out of sight.

I also recently saw an article where residents were fined in error. I know it's to encourage kids to walk to school but I feel for the working parents who just need to drop and go. I think it'll be on the delivery companies to sort. There must be some way to appeal in those circumstances. I'd like to think so anyway.

We have one of these camera zones and it has been a nightmare because it means that the lazy entitled parents just block the corners and pull up onto the pavements right outside the camera controlled zone because they can’t be arsed to park legally and walk 5 minutes extra. So rather than one danger point right outside the school, we have dangerous parking across the whole area. This year I’ve had a scary near miss where we had to inch out into the road with zero visibility at a corner completely blocked by massive SUVs blocking the view of oncoming traffic, and twice had drivers bump up or reverse onto the pavement right where we are walking and then get arsey with me.

Also the Amazon delivery drivers etc don’t know about the restriction as the signage is so shit and confusing, so there is still loads of non local traffic coming through.

And yes I expect it’s crap for people in the zone as their deliveries, carers, etc can’t get in at set times.

The only winners are the council who have made a ton of money out of it.

There’s a few of these near me and the exclusion is for a much shorter time - 8.30-9 or something, similar at the end of the day. I wonder why it’s such a long period? Also as far as I know it’s not PCN enforced either, at one a member of SLT used to go and put cones out and would let some people through - for example I was a supply teacher and arrived after the road was already shut and they let me through.

I expect the result will be the local delivery drivers like evri / postman / supermarkets will quickly learn this themselves and avoid these times. Infrequent national deliveries such as appliances will just randomly get hit by the fine.

As a resident, I would leave that to a conversation between council and delivery driver.

If you employ contractors just let them know up front and they will also just avoid these times.

Can't believe so many people think you're being unreasonable. Sounds shit to me!

So if someone did not drive and was not very mobile, they would not be able to use a taxi for say a hospital appointment, during these hours. Have I got this right?

I know Parkgate Drive. It would take probably about 50 seconds to walk from one end of it to the other. If youre at the far end of Heathfield or Collingwood then maybe a minute and a half walk from your front door to the end of the exclusion zone. For most people they'd manage to walk that and get in a taxi. You arrange for trades to have arrived before the exclusion. Deliveries you have to take your chances. Local couriers will know the exclusion zones and plan around them.

I wonder if this has happened because of resident complaints but I can see how this can be really restrictive and unfair for elderly or disabled people that rely on taxis or transport from relatives.

This has just happened by us and I can't see how it's going to work either. The camera went up and it wasn't publicised so I expect it's going to be chaos.

That’s wild. I wouldn’t like being told when I can and can’t have deliveries to my own house just because I live a few streets away from a school.

I think it is an utter disgrace that you are being inconvenienced so that children can have safe streets around their school.

i think the best plan is that you move house immediately. I hear Dubai has excellent parking, and Amazon can deliver 24/7.