people who double park/on pavements/double yellow outside are just LAZY & THICK

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If you are late, park safely and walk faster or leave the house earlier, it's the same pick up time everyday, set an alarm if you are not capable of being on time. If you are late, call the school or if only a few mins late get it into your thick head that your child will come to no harm! If young, the teacher takes them back into school, if older you already have plan worked out that if you are late you wait in the playground of go back into school.

I really don't see why people have to be so thick with the parking? I say all this as I fuming that a women double parked then tried to reverse into a sea of children on the pavement to do a three point turn just now outside our school.

Why do people act this way? I am genuinely asking as I really don't get it.

In the 2 years my DD has been at school i have had 6 people actually hit my double buggy with their car (only 1 asked if the children were ok) and had countless other near-misses as they just chuck car in reverse and hit the acelerater without warning.

Why because we walk on a footpath and cross the roads as does around 100 other familys to get to the school gate, there are double yellow and white lines everywhere parents still have to drop off their offspring directley outside the gate rarther than have to walk a few meters..

There is a school car park where disabled parents/children are allowed to park to drop children off but thease people are just plain Lazy beggers, the school can do nothing except send out letters. i am just waiting to hear there has been a child/ren badley hurt there :(

Some people regularly park on the yellow zig zags by our school. FFS.
I suspect there is a competition foe how close they can park to the school.

the people who park on yellow lins/white lines... obviousley not the people parking in the reserved spots in the school car park. please dont flame me

People double park outside our local shops, causing traffic chaos as it is v close to a corner. And they do this when there is a massive huge free space all of 30m away.

Thick, lazy and incredibly selfish.

YANBU ~ we call them Sligs (Selfish Lazy Ignorant Gits!)

YANBU to call them lazy.

YABU to call them thick.

They could be perfectly intelligent people who have figured out that even though "the rules" say you shoulnd't do it, nothing will actually happen if they do.

My parents live near a school, and by three o'clock, their tiny street is full of pavement parking, double parking, lazy bastards. Last time I went round, the pavement was completely impassable. In about 2/3 of the cars, the drivers were sat in them, reading the newspaper or some shit.

If you've got time to wait and read, you've got time to park further away, in a safer location.

I agree about the yellow lines and the lazyness.

But don't know what double parking is. Is it parking next to another car?

I have that problem with delivery van drivers who park outside my shop.

The other day I got so annoyed with it, that I went up and banged on the window of one van.
I told him to get of the pavement (actually, i probably did a bit of a washerwoman act screeching and holding a baby... )
He started going on about that he was only going to be a minute etc etc.
Then one of our local policemen came up and held his warrant card at the window( he wasn't in uniform), and the man moved on.
It was fun.

A parent reversed their car all the way into our school playground last week -at drop off time, kids loose everywhere. I hold DD's hand when we are walking in to school, but figure I should be able to let go IN THE PLAYGROUND!!

Don't forget selfish and inconsiderate!

I had a run in yesterday morning with a chap outside school, to cut a long story short he had parked practically opposite a parked car leaving only a tiny gap to get through. My car is only small but I had mere millimeters gap each side.
I dropped my dd off, turned round and noticed there was a massive gap in front of him, so I put my window down and said 'could you move your car forward a bit mate, it's ever so tight getting through here and I have the tiniest car in the world'
his reply - fuck off. in front of his kids, nice eh?

so I called him a selfish inconsiderate tosser who has no spacial awareness and should probably learn to drive!

I need to go into the school and ask where my pass is to park up on the zig zags and double yellow lines to wait for my HIGH SCHOOL AGE child. It appears to be the done thing so I can only imagine the parents have special dispensation. Lazy bastards.

It is a nightmare where I work. Parents in massive Chelsea tractors doing 3 point turns, parking on double yellow lines, pulling out without bothering to signal or check if it is safe.

Horrendous

Galifrey why are people so rude and inconsiderate. That man should be ashamed of himself.

There's always the grass verges to park on round here if you have a mahoosive 4x4. Turns the grass into mud but hey who cares about that?

And people turning in to the school road without indicating when there are hundreds of kids around? I saw 3 this morning in one minute.

I looked at a school for dd that had a special area for dropping off, you drove in one end, dropped off your children and then drove out the other end. I thought that was a brilliant idea but didn't see it at 9am and 3pm so I have no idea if it actually worked or not.
I do think that most schools should be a bit more helpful about parking, but more often than not there is nowhere to park. My dd's school is doubling in size and it's horrendous as it is already. Why don't they think of things like parking when they build schools?

I work in road safety and travel planning. Work with the school, police, traffic wardens, cycle trainers, educate children and parents. Try and encourage people to cycle or walk. Come up with 'park n walk' sites, put in cycle paths. Still the minority continue to park inconsiderately and dangerously around schools. And children do get knocked down! The drop off zones work well where there is space. But if anyone has any good ideas for solutions please share!

I read about people parking irresponsibly around schools on MN all the time. We live round the back of a primary school and there's a pedestrian cut through from our street to get to the school gates. People do park on our street at drop off/pick up time but never once have I seen a driveway blocked or parking on the pavement.

Perhaps I should ring the school and compliment the parents?

Gallifrey - our school provides free parking for 90 minutes morning and afternoon. The car park is less than 100 metres walk from the school gate. This still doesn't stop people!

gallifrey

Why don't they think of things like parking when they build schools?

When most schools were built, the vast majority of children walked, cycled or took the bus to school. The parking problems you see around schools now simply did not exist when I was at school in the 80s because very few people drove their children to school.

A phone call to the local police should sort it out. There's nothing like a few parking tickets to rein in the CPPs (Crazy Parental Parkers).

More constructively, some schools now have a set down/pick up arrangement supervised by volunteer parents. You stop briefly, your DC is then helped out by the volunteer and you drive off. Seems to work reasonably well but it's obviously not suitable for some school/road layouts.

My daughters school was built 10 years ago, and seriously it's horrendous. I used to live just over the road from the school so didn't really know what it was like as I walked every day. I've now moved and have to drive her to school every day, it really is terrible, there are cars parked up the road for miles.
Apparently the school does a scheme where you can park in a car park at the end of the road for free and walk but it's about 1/2 a mile away (I think, not sure of the actual distance but too far for little children)