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pre school parking twats

35 replies

TremoloGreen · 06/03/2015 13:12

Ok, I don't think IABU, but posting here for advice because AIBU is the spiritual home of parking threads.

I live on an old victorian street with v little parking, so narrow road with parked cars on both sides the whole length. There is a preschool on this street and parents regularly pull up and park in the middle of the road outside it, for a few mins while they drop their kids off. There's also a fair bit of parking across driveways etc, but I don't have a driveway. This morning I was late for the doctors with DD because of the obstruction and they almost refused to see us Angry

I have complained to the school before but got a very wishy washy response, basically taking no responsibility. I want to complain about this to the council (or whoever) but I've looked on my local council's website and can't work out the relevant department. Any ideas?

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Redhead11 · 06/03/2015 13:15

Contact your local councillor and see what they have to say. It is a nightmare and there probably won't be anything done. Parents think their poor little delicate darlings can't walk very far because of cold/wind/fresh air/dangerous world and schools don't give a shit. We have a similar problem in our street and it drives me nuts.

RaptorInaPorkPieHat · 06/03/2015 13:19

Local PCSO maybe? they often work with the schools in our area to reduce bad parking practises.

ArcheryAnnie · 06/03/2015 13:22

Ring up the council and ask to speak to the department which has traffic wardens, then tell them. If they are parked dangerously, a few tickets will make them think differently in the future.

IDontDoIroning · 06/03/2015 13:23

Community police officer - your local station should tell you. Also your local council highways department,
The school can't soo much but they can inform parents that they should be courteous re parking and respect the residents and park legally as they cannot intervene should local residents complain and bring contact the police or request parking controls to be implemented.

gallicgirl · 06/03/2015 13:23

It would be the Highways department, parking management.

Agree with the PCSO suggestions.

MythicalKings · 06/03/2015 13:24

We had PCSOs issuing warnings last week and drivers were told that they will be prosecuted if seen parking illegally again.

A member of Neighbourhood Watch is going to take photos to send to the PCSO and we all hope prosecutions will follow.

wormshuffled · 06/03/2015 13:25

Take photos and post them on your local newspaper Facebook page or parking like a twat page. Ensure you show the reg number!

eyebags63 · 06/03/2015 13:26

slash their tyres?

YANBU at all.

cartoonsaveme · 06/03/2015 13:27

Near us someone has set up a dangerous parking reporting Twitter feed - posting pictures of ridiculous parking outside school. Sending tweets round the school Twitter feeds and to local police to shame people. Some are totally outrageous. Get local paper on it

thewavesofthesea · 06/03/2015 13:30

I live on a street right next to a school; I like it as it is a good school and my kids go there, and I don't really mind the parking down our street but I do mind people parking on the junction, makings it impossible to turn out with full
vision of the road. Makes hitting a child far more likely. However, complaints were made and now double yellow lines have made it much safer. Some people still seem to think they are above the law, but I quite regularly see the cars with the cameras on top coming to take pictures and issue tickets. Has improved things no end, and although some are still inconsiderate mostly it is okay.

ThereIsIron · 06/03/2015 13:34

Leave your house earlier (before the traffic problems) if you have an appointment?

ThinkIveBeenHacked · 06/03/2015 13:39

Could you apply for your street to be permit only? Ours changed a couple of years ago (primary school at the top), and it has been much easier since. Still get the odd fucker who brings someone along in the car to keep the engine ticking over while they go in and collect.

Hissy · 06/03/2015 13:42

Go up to the school at drop off time and raise your voice!

TELL these selfish idiots NOT to block the road and that you WILL be reporting them to wardens

Good call on the Neighbourhood Watch too - perhaps if they wrote to the school. Call PCSO too

Coffeethrowtrampbitch · 06/03/2015 13:50

Think I live in a school street which is permit parking only, it is just ignored. The council do not enforce it, so every time residents complain they are told it is a permit only area so there can't possibly be a problem.

It should have solved the problem, instead it is used as an excuse and the residents are miserable.

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TremoloGreen · 06/03/2015 13:56

Just to be clear, the main problem is people stopping in the middle of the road for 2-3 mins. So blocking the road. I don't think not having a permit stops that kind of behaviour. I guess they think, oh it's just a couple of mins, but if several of them, all in the space of half an hour or so, it's a problem.

I love the twitter idea, also will try pcso. Don't know about neighbourhood watch in the area, I will ask around.

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TremoloGreen · 06/03/2015 13:58

Also next time I get blocked in by someone I will get out of the car and make it clear that I'm taking a photo of them. Instead of the honking/rude hand gesture I went for this morning!

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PatricianOfAnkhMorpork · 06/03/2015 14:07

We have a similar problem near me. Primary school on the main road that leads to the motorway. God forbid that the little darlings use their legs for a couple of hundred yards. They park on the zigzags near the pelican crossing that also has a lollipop lady, park so close to the traffic island that you can't get through, block driveways and park on the pavement. They also don't look before opening the rear door on the driver's side next to the traffic. How none of the kids haven't been injured I have no idea but it will happen at some point.

ThinkIveBeenHacked · 06/03/2015 14:24

Oh Coffee I think we have a really good warden - he is always there with his book at school drop off and at pick up, and again at 5.55pm (permit ends at 6pm its amazing how many people pull up at 5.45 onwards and try and just get away with it).

Hissy · 06/03/2015 14:35

Assuming the cars are left unattended? do they have the keys left?

I'd flaming well move them if that were the case. about half a mile down the road and drop the keys on the way back

KittensOnAPlane · 06/03/2015 14:37

" ThereIsIron Fri 06-Mar-15 13:34:29
Leave your house earlier (before the traffic problems) if you have an appointment?"

Are you being serious? Thats completely bonkers, OP might as well leave home the day before, just in case anyone else blocks any of the other roads....!!

MovingOnUpMovingOnOut · 06/03/2015 14:46

If you can't get hold of a monster truck (and that would be my preferred option - just drive over the top and if they get a bit squashed, well, it's their own fault) then contacting the local police station for advice is a good idea.

TravelinColour · 06/03/2015 15:23

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Perfectlypurple · 06/03/2015 15:26

Go onto your police website and find the local policing section. It should give you the option to put in your post code and it will tell you who your local officers are. Then you should get the option to email them.

MojaveWanderer123 · 06/03/2015 15:45

I wouldn't bother going to the paper as I did and the head of the school wasn't happy as it looked bad for them. It also did sod all and everyone still parks on the double yellows. I'll be glad when my dc leave the school.

Collaborate · 06/03/2015 15:54

If you're not in a hurry to go anywhere one morning why don't you and another neighbour conspire to go in front of and behind someone who parks like that, and make them be inconvenienced. If they have to wait for 15 minutes before you can be bothered to move your car word will soon spread like wildfire around the nursery.