To get annoyed at parents parking on double yellow lines for nursery/school drop-offs?

[CarolynR]

I get so angry when I see mums/dads park on double yellows to drop off their kids - there are yellow lines for a reason!! It makes it dangerous for other children crossing the road and is an inconvenience for other drivers. I find it so selfish - the rule is there for everyone to abide by!
AIBU?

Yellow lines and parent child spaces only serve to make people self righteous and pompous.

I agree with the parent and child.

Not the yellow lines. Yellow lines are usually there to stop people parking for good reason, usually safety. Parking on yellows for your own convenience is lazy, entitled and dangerous as well as illegal.

I suggest this website all the time for reporting problems like this.

You can report the problem anonymously (in that your name and email won't appear on the website if you don't want it to) but they put your complaint on the website and forward it to the relevant people and they then have a certain amount of time to act on it. They do forward your email address to the council etc so that they can contact you about it to update you but it stays anonymous to the public and the school etc.

You can also update the complaint and other people can add updates too. You can add photos if you wish or the number plates of repeat offenders.

So it would be a complete (but anonymous) log of the problem which you could add to on a daily basis until the problem was resolved.

Why can't schools just have decent drop off points or school buses like other countries?

i used to be a lolly pop lady,and they used to do it wen the kids was going to and from school ,saying im only gonna be 1 min ,so i took there number plates and passed them on to the police so yanbu im with yakbutter

Yeah, people complain when I do it. They moan that 'they have to slow down' like slowing down outside a school is a bad thing?

Thing is I'm doing it legally. I have two blue badge holding children in the car, we have to park there to be near the school, there's no other parking, and where I park I am not obstructing the road or parking dangerously (agreed with by local pcso who is called in to deal with all those doing this ILLEGALLY.)

Still I get complained about shrugs

They don't want to slow down outside a school.

theo I have been saying that for years! They should have proper school buses!

Because their little angels may get wet lockets. Or they are late.

As long as it is safe to do so, Seventh.
Which it is where I do.

Our council has stopped subsidizing the school buses due to the cuts, so they have stopped running to a lot of schools.
This has made the pick up and drop off ten times worse!

They do this outside DS's school and the Head names and shames them in the weekly newsletters. If it is the same people, let the school know so that they can do similar.

Names and shames people? that's funny

I wonder if those who think it is okay as long as it is a quick drop off would feel the same if it was happening where they live. Our local school/ nursery is at the top of our street. Parents park all over the zigzags and yellow lines causing huge traffic problems. I cannot tell you how many times I have tried to turn into our street and have been stuck due to drivers parking/ waiting on the double yellows. It is not okay.

Our head puts the car reg no in the newsletter but these people are so shameless that it doesn't make any difference.

Sorry but do people excitedly wait for the school newsletter so they can see whose been parking on yellow lines? Good God, who would do that? School newsletters are hardly interesting at the best of times but registration numbers would be like reading the phone book. If someone tried to publish my name or registration number i would consider that a gross invasion of my privacy. And also a bit of a joke.

Sorry, a little bit off-topic but why is it ok for people with a disabled badge to park on yellow lines? Surely either it is dangerous/obstructive to park on double yellow or it is not? That doesn't seem logical to me. If cars with a disabled badge or legally allowed to park on yellow lines, it seems to imply that it isn't actually that dangerous.

Still, any parking around schools is a nightmare, I walk to school and from a pedestrian point of view it is very dangerous. I've seen many near accidents with cars near pavements, opening doors without looking and parking in the wrong place.

I don't think it's ever understandable - it is utterly selfish. Parking on double yellows is putting your convenience over everyone elses safety.

What really got me this morning was that there is plenty of free on-street car parking just 30 seconds away but this mum wanted right outside the nursery door.

Fair enough lockets but it still raises the question why people with a disabled badge are allowed to make that judgment call on what safe and is not and people without a badge aren't. It is not very logical, is it?

I want to make it clear that I don't have a problem with it, I just found it strange and illogical.