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to ask if you've heard of School Streets, and whether you think it's a good idea?

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Toomuchstuffwillkillme · 20/03/2019 22:00

I just caught a bit of 'Clean Air for Kids' on R4 about School Streets in Hackney. Had not heard about it. (Must listen to whole programme properly in a bit!)
Seems like the sort of thing we should all be thinking about? I appreciate actually getting car-loving parents on board might be difficult, and there are probably a lot of issues that would need ironing out, but worth a try?
hackney.gov.uk/article/4379/School-streets

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WeepingWillowWeepingWino · 21/03/2019 12:21

There is a private primary school on my mum's road - so many parents aren't that local. Every day the cars rock up, 10, 15 minutes early, and sit with their engines running for heating or air con. It's a residential road. There are quite a few buses that serve the area and the bus stop is at the bottom of the road.

It's incredibly infuriating.

BluebadgenPIP · 21/03/2019 12:23

I’m starting down the road of blue badge.

I am on crutches every day. I have no blue badge. Therefore I would have to walk a child to school.

The knee issues I have mean I physically cannot ride a bike.

So I’d be screwed.

Sirzy · 21/03/2019 12:25

Not true. I had a blue badge for almost a year before I even applied for pip. You don't have to be in receipt of disability benefits to qualify for a blue badge (unless it's changed in the last year)

Wrongly if you don’t automatically qualify then it is very much down to the individual council to decide.

Both ds (dla) and my dad (pip) have blue badges but neither of them get the rate to automatically qualify. Both very much need them though and it’s awful other people in the same position as them can’t get them simply because they have a different post code

ColeHawlins · 21/03/2019 12:26

@UserX it's looking like you've now twice described disabled people citing their disabilities as making "excuses" for not walking/cycling?

You might want to clarify or row back.

funinthesun19 · 21/03/2019 12:30

They need this around my kids’ school. The school was built around very narrow roads when not very many people had cars.

Now there are too many parents in cars who can’t manage the unbearable 2 minute walk from the main road and have to park as close to the school entrance as possible. There is not enough room for them as well as residents, who have the right to park their cars there! And even that is a squeeze.

funinthesun19 · 21/03/2019 12:33

And before anyone pounces on me, my comment about the unbearable 2 minute walk isn’t aimed at people with disabilities. There is a massive car park that they could use!

I’m not having that every parent who pulls up NEEDS to park close to the school though. Most of them are just lazy, ignorant, selfish arseholes.

BigFatGiant · 21/03/2019 12:35

This will basically just punish working parents though won’t it?

Spikeyball · 21/03/2019 12:37

nokidshere it depends where you live. In some areas it is no automatic qualification, no blue badge.

greenelephantscarf · 21/03/2019 12:38

This will basically just punish working parents though won’t it?

why?
if you need to drive you can talk to school to arrange a walking bus from home or a nearby convenient parking space.

Thesearmsofmine · 21/03/2019 12:39

I would love this around the school at the bottom of my street. The road becomes unusable from around 2.30 when they start parking up(engines running) and blocking
driveways. I dread to think what the air quality is like.

Thesearmsofmine · 21/03/2019 12:39

Not really @BigFatGiant they could leave a few minutes earlier, park further away and walk in.

BluebadgenPIP · 21/03/2019 12:41

How do you do that when school doesn’t open til 8.45 and you’re commuting on to work?

ivykaty44 · 21/03/2019 12:42

If the road is closed to traffic- then surely the children would be able to walk themselves with their friends, if they the parents leave them at the shut off road?

thecatsthecats · 21/03/2019 12:44

I have a much better solution.

The pub next door to my house and the local school has a massive car park. They happily allow parents to park there at drop off/pick ups. Pub is family friendly also.