To think that people should at least try to avoid driving to school

[JohnWayne]

It seems very antisocial to clog up the roads at busy times for short journeys. Obviously some parents are travelling onto work and it fits in with their day, but my experiences are:

• selfishness by parents driving e.g. not stopping to let children to cross the road
• clogging up residential roads near school, making it less safe to walk
• hideously selfish parking near schools, ignoring the rules of the road for no reason beyond selfishness/convenience
• driving very short distances from home to school
• congestion caused by selfish laziness in insisting on parking within 10 yards of the school gate having driven past a perfectly good space 100 yards away
• making the lives of people who live near schools an absolute misery due to many of the practices mentioned above

1 in 10 parents drive their children less than 500 yards to school ]www.bikebiz.com/news/read/sustrans-kids-in-cars-for-short-school-trips-is-shocking/013573

It is not even so much that driving is damaging to the local environment (thinking liveability rather than diesel particulates necessarily) but children need to get into the habit of walking, driving everywhere is bad for your health and is a recipe for premature death and obesity.

At our school, almost everyone is going off to work. Only a tiny minority are not.

Hmm, our primary school is in the middle of the village, only walkable to if you live in the village, many don't.

The nearest high school is in another village about 3 miles away - no pavements, no lighting, so no safe walking route.

Easy enough to walk if you are able, and don't have health problems (parent or child) to contend with, and it's in reasonable distance, but roads aren't just for the busy folk rushing off to their work, they're for everyone who needs them.

YABU.

I used to live over the road from school and walked every day, I had no idea that the parking up and down the road was so bad until we moved 5 miles away and I now have to drive.

It's horrendous!! I park in a little cul de sac that has a foot path through to the school but now several other people have discovered this and sometimes I can't get a space there either.