AIBU to think he deserved the private road parking fine?

I think it's really rough when a car park is council/public property, or that of a shop where customers are allowed/encouraged to park, but they then issue huge fines for accidentally/unavoidably staying a few minutes over... but this is a clearly-marked private road, so no sympathy at all.

It's like the equivalent of walking through the front door and into a random stranger's private house, even 'just for a few minutes' - it's clearly entirely out of bounds to you and that's the end of it.

He deserves to be fined. I live on a private road next to 3 schools. Despite frequent comms from one of the schools and very clear signage, parents frequently drive into our street. They’d argue that it’s only for a few minutes at a time but one parent making 10 trips per week multiplied by many parents becomes significant. We resurfaced the roads 12 years ago at a cost of tens of thousands of pounds and the more usage it gets, the quicker it will wear. Also, should anything happen in our road, they’ll be claiming on our PLI.

Lots of schools have insufficient parking close by. Parking on a private road is no different to parking on someone’s driveway and most people would be understandably upset to find parents regularly parked up on their drive.

It’s not up to the residents to solve the parents’ problems for them.

I also live on a private road near three schools but in our case we’ve stopped maintaining the top part of the road to stop the school run parking. TBH if people park there considerately for ten minutes a day that would be fine, most do, but some park like dicks blocking driveways and occasionally the bin lorry as the road is narrow. I had no idea I’d be able to hire a private company to enforce fines but now I’m tempted.

He got the fine for being an entitled arsehole.

Choose a different school maybe which is closer?

He admits in the article he's been personally approached before and asked not to park there, the school have told parents not to park there, I'd put £100 on the cameras being installed specifically because of ridiculous school parking.

He saw the signs, and says 'if you get there at 8am it's fine but 8.30 is carnage', he says there needs to be 'give and take', god knows what he thinks he's giving.

He's exceptionally entitled, his argument is basically 'I wanted to and I'm more important than everyone else. FAFO.

Being on the school run doesn't not give you the right to park like a knob

Well. That's what rules are for.... I do sympathise with him, but if he's parked on private property and that's the penalty, then unfortunately, it needs to be paid. If they start making exceptions for people, they may as well not bother with enforcing it at all 🤷‍♀️

I didn’t say it did

Yes because we always get allocated our first choice school don’t we ? 🙄

Get a locked down bollard sorted

@Nsky62 how would that help? Imagine being in a wheelchair.

People like him don't understand that 'give and take' means that sometimes we all give and sometimes we all take. They quite happily understand it to mean that some people (probably not them) give and some people (definitely them) take... and because "it's a well-known phrase", that legitimises it.

See also people who berate professionals in the public sector with "I pay your wages" - even though they aren't even a taxpayer anyway (not that it justifies it if they were, mind...).

Wow - I just read his quotes in that article you sent. He sounds unbelievably self-absorbed and arrogant. I hope the residents win.
As you say Breshnev he sounds like one of life’s takers and he genuinely can’t conceive of the fact that, yes, this time he needs to put himself out a bit.