How to broach this school run traffic problem

[JenniferBooth]

i live opposite an infant/junior school. For the last 29 years. The traffic is a nightmare. Has been steadily getting worse over the last five years particularly the last two. Todays normally ten min bus journey at 3.30pm took TWENTY FIVE minutes. The bus driver could see that the three cars in front of him had ONE parent and ONE child in it. Ludicrous. Been living here 29 years and it never used to be like this. Im going to ring the Head and ask him if he can ask the parents to carpool or something. But ive already been told this is a stupid idea so what do i do.

I think it gets worse over time because new house go up, the schools intake goes up. Rather than new schools open. Ours is a three form intake. Houses have possibly doubled in 30 years in the village and no new school. Over 2000 new schools are planned on the edge of the village and guess what? No new school. If your on the edge of the village in one of these new houses that's a 4 mile round walk to school. That's not compatible with a day time job, two 4 mile round walks.

I'd hate to live near our school. I do car pool and park on the very far side of the school boundary where I don't impact traffic by the school at all. People don't want you parking anywhere if it's near their house. I parked on a side boundary fence away from all access and all drives for ten minutes and still had the owner come out and stare aggressively at me. He couldn't of even seen my car from inside his house. His house is about 20 years old. The school went up in the sixties. I get if you live in socail hosing your options are limited if your offered a house by a school. If you own a five bed detached a mile from the school and just resent anyone non resident parking on your street then I wonder their logic buying next to a school boundary.

It’s the same on the trains/trams with everyone having to travel at the same time. Where I live one school staggers start and finish times for half the school which makes it a really long congestion period not just one when they all flood out of the school gates plus not everyone can walk or use the school buses.

You know none of us live with you, so we are only going on what you’ve written? How the fuck do you expect us to know it’s a circular bus route??

If your on the edge of the village in one of these new houses that's a 4 mile round walk to school. That's not compatible with a day time job, two 4 mile round walks.

A school “walking bus” sounds an ideal solution for this situation. Rather than 100s of new school runs by car.