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AIBU?

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To want to ban cars from near school?

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Brittapie · 27/10/2013 22:28

I live in an old mill town, streets of little terraced houses, fairly narrow streets (some still have cobbles - we're talking proper coronation street houses, except coronation street is really wide). There is a primary school on my street, with the main road at the top end, and the other two sides being streets like mine.

Every single morning it is chaos. Cars everywhere, half of the time driving without looking properly, parking like idiots, generally causing a huge fuss. It is a huge hazard.

AIBU to want to ban non resident cars for a few streets at school pick up and drop off times?

OBVIOUSLY you'd be ok if there was some kind of special reason, but we have three or four schools in fifteen minutes walk, it's not like we are a village school where people have to travel for miles.

Parking is fairly bad round here anyway, not that I particulary care as I don't have or want a car, so there just isn't the extra space for more cars, especially at the time when there are also loads of kids about.

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Spirulina · 27/10/2013 22:35

Ban scooters as well, don't forget them!

LindyHemming · 27/10/2013 22:36

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WorraLiberty · 27/10/2013 22:38

People driving their kids to school unnecessarily (and I know lots of people do find it necessary) and congestion around the school drives me mad.

But what you're suggesting is only going to cause misery for people like yourself, who happen to live further from the school than you do.

pixiepotter · 27/10/2013 22:41

AIBU to want to ban non resident cars
YABU every person on every street in every town would do this is they got the chance.
Question for you did you move into your house before or after the school opened?

lookingfoxy · 27/10/2013 22:42

Its the same round our schools as well, I live within 5 mins walk and ds is desperate to walk to school by himself, but its far too dangerous with all the cars. There must have been some complaints as sometimes the police are sitting there.

FortyDoorsToNowhere · 27/10/2013 22:45

alot of parent drop off DC to school and then dart off to work, DH is one of them.

Nagoo · 27/10/2013 22:53

I drive to school and park a two minute walk away, in actual parking places. I don't understand why people think they are so special they need to park on the fricking zig zags. I was lugging a baby about, I still managed to park in a proper place that doesn't put the children in danger...

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Brittapie · 27/10/2013 22:56

I moved in after the school opened, given that the school (and the street) is about 100 years old. That is the issue though, it isn't designed for so many cars.

I'm not shocked, I knew it would happen. The same thing happened around the primary school I went to. Doesn't stop it being dangerous, and I'm pretty sure I would feel the same if I didn't live on the same street.

In fact - I did. In our last town we lived a 20 minute walk from school. We walked or bussed it in, and that didn't stop the fact that idiot drivers were all clogging up the streets and making it dangerous.

If you are on the way to work, factor in an extra five minutes, park the car responsibly a few streets away (we have industrial units two minutes walk away, for example) walk your child to the school gate, walk back to your car, drive away. Not hard.

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Xmasbaby11 · 27/10/2013 22:56

YABU. I guess the majority of parents drop their kids off in the car so they can go straight to work - that's what I would do. Until the children are old enough to take themselves, I can't see any practical alternative.

Xmasbaby11 · 27/10/2013 22:57

X post!

Oh, if there are alternative roads that close, then YANBU to expect people to be more considerate.

FortyDoorsToNowhere · 27/10/2013 23:01

DH do park legally, but it still causes problems.

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Brittapie · 27/10/2013 23:02

Yeah, we really are very closely packed round here. Room for single file traffic and small houses packed together, but two blocks away there are industrial units. Directly across the main road (so not ideal, but I suppose there is a green man crossing and traffic island etc) is the huge old mill that is now a call centre and so on, that has a massive car park.

People can't even be bothered parking though, they stop in the middle of the road and let the kids out of the car.

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Spirulina · 27/10/2013 23:13

You can't ban cars if people need to get to work... Industrial units nearby? Well how would that work?

And idiot drivers? Really? Just for driving.... How are they 'idiots'?

WooWooOwl · 27/10/2013 23:19

YABU

MrsSippy · 27/10/2013 23:28

The secondary school I work in is at the end of a long cul-de-sac; it is a massive school over two sites and the kids probably walk quite a few miles between classes in an average day. However, it is chaotic in a morning when parents insist on dropping the kids off within the gates as the road is too narrow to turn in. It's even worse when the weather is bad...

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Brittapie · 27/10/2013 23:36

They are idiots when they drive like idiots. Drivers who drive sensibly are not the problem, and having to park and walk for two minutes isn't a big change from what they do.

Idiot drivers, however, stop mid road or park dangerously, drive against the flow of traffic, pull out without properly looking etc etc etc

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