a school run parking aibu

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Parking spaces near to dds school are few and taken quickly. People resort to parking across driveways, on the pavement, on double yellows, and today even on the zig zag lines. It's now got to the stage where I can't do the 2 minute walk to school without having to walk part of it on the road as my pram can't squeeze past the cars mounting the pavement.

The school puts a polite note in each newsletter but it just gets ignored.

Wibu to phone the council and ask beg them to send a traffic warden round to patrol the area every morning? Either to act as a visual deterrent or to fine people till they learn not to park illegally?

I would say go for it. Most of the time DS's school isn't too bad and people stick to the rules, but I sometimes see cars stopping on the yellow zig-zags to drop their children off (although not actually parking and getting out of the car), people parked on the single yellow lines at times when it's forbidden and people blocking driveways. Maybe a police community support officer could come round at school run time?

We've had this issue at school.

I contacted the local pcso, they were very interested and sent patrols out.

They're now adding extra zig zag lines at the front of the school.

They will be interested, and so they should be. People that park this way are total idiots, there's no excuse.

Our school has a FaceBook page. I would take photos of the offenders and post them on there.

Or better yet, if you are friends with plenty of mums from the school, post them to your own account and make a game of getting them to tag the offender lol

I phoned the council up this morning. Spoke to a lovely chap in the parking team who promised to pass the message on to the parking attendants. He said I was the 3rd person to call this week re school parking, but the other 2 were regarding a different school in a different location.

Hopefully I can happily update tomorrow morning or next week that there was a lovely line of yellow tickets stuck to the offenders cars on my way back from the school run.

The police don't get involved with this now as it's been decriminalised, they will only intervene if a public footpath is completely blocked and you can't get through at all. It's down to the council to enforce it with wardens, you need to get on to them.

We've had this at our local primary school too and the police that attend our quarterly PACT meetings told us this when we complained about it.

Oops, sorry OP, just saw your last reply

I've emailed the local police yesterday about this. I suggested a few days then random not infrequent follow ups. Got email back today saying they're doing that.

I thought about letting the school know, but I think as it's always the same offenders they deserve it. Evil, that's me.

They have put parking restrictions round our local school. They are a nightmare, when the old lady nextdoor was terminally ill they were asked to stop blocking our cul de sac as if she needed an ambulance in an emergency it couldn't get in but they ignored it. They parked on my neighbours front lawn once. We all had a laugh when they had their sad faces in the local paper with all their parking tickets when they ignored the yellow lines.