To think is perfectly okay to park on double yellows if you’re picking a child up from nursery?

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It’s perfectly fine to park on double yellows if you’re picking up or dropping off at nursery right? Even though the road is really narrow and you’re forcing cars to drive up on the pavement by parking your Chelsea tractor there, and there’s a free car park a two minute walk away?

I know, click bait title, but I’m so sodding sick of it. The nursery is on the corner of my very narrow road and the main road, there’s a big free car park on the other side of the main road, but apparently that’s too far to walk. Sometimes my road is literally grid locked by a combination of parents on the double yellows and delivery vans, but they still do it. God forbid I might want to get my car out of my drive without doing a complicated manoeuvre.

I’ve tried complaining to the council, they say they’ll send someone round but they never do. I’ve tried complaining to the nursery, last time I did that they were apologising to while a member of staff was being picked up and getting into a car parked on the double yellows so they don’t give a fuck.

And yes, I know this is a rant but I’m fed up of it all today.

OP, is there a crossing to this car park that's convenient, or do they have to walk ages around to find one/play chicken/bump up and down kerbs? No excuse, but making the walk more attractive could make everyone happier.

Report it to the police - your local PCSO and your Councils Highways Dept.
I did.
A few still block access to our estate of 100 houses, but there are fewer of them, having received warnings and tickets.

It’s also perfectly legal to park in blue badge bays if you have a baby at nursery.

Of course it is. Because you'll only be a few minutes, obviously.

Social services are too stretched otherwise I would consider it reasonable to allege child neglect by any example of bad driving with a child

I voted YANBU but come on, this is ridiculous.

2bazookas one of my neighbours took photos not offending cars, with number plates a few years ago. He sent them to the Police, who sent a PCSO round to ask him why he was taking photographs near s school. Nothing was done about the parking.

AlwaysLatte
Oh, and don't forget to drive carefully round the lollipop lady. Ive seen that too 🙈

WTF?! Jesus Christ 😬

@Rosemary7391

OP, is there a crossing to this car park that's convenient, or do they have to walk ages around to find one/play chicken/bump up and down kerbs? No excuse, but making the walk more attractive could make everyone happier.

There’s a crossing thirty seconds from the nursery, dropped kerb and all. It’s literally cross at the crossing, walk ten paces, cross another small road and the car park is there.

I hate inconsiderate parkers/arseholes. While it was genuinely accidental, I must say I wasn't overly fussed when I had to come off the pavement with my mothers wheelchair and go onto the road, around the car...and in trying to stay as far in as possible so as she didn't get hit by passing cars, the side bit of the chair scratched the sodding car. Perhaps they'll park a bit more considerably next time.

Keep complaining and get your neighbours to also.

There is a Traffic Enforcement Officer walking along the road by our local Primary School now due to the amount of parents who block people's drives because they have to drop their little darlings off right next to the school gates.

My DH has a real thing about illegal parking and will always mention it. This resulted in my 4 year old shouting 'you shouldn't park there!' though an open car window to a passenger waiting for the driver to come back from wherever they were.

It's such a selfish thing to do. It's got so bad where my parents live that the bus service no longer runs during school drop off/pick up times as the roads are blocked by parents.

@Winter2020

Hi, Could you ring your local police non emergency number, try and speak to a local community officer and see if they can offer a police presence at pick up or drop off time once or twice (maybe with cones) to reset peoples habits. You could also phone or write to the nursery and ask them to remind parents that it is illegal to park on the lines, dangerous for children crossing and they should use the car park etc.

The Police won’t do anything. They are absolutely strapped at the best of times.

OP if you’re getting no joy at the nursery have you thought about the local press.

They all park on double yellows outside our school because they have disabled badges (so are legally entitled to). I wouldn't mind so much except they all do bloody 3 point turns outside the school - so dangerous..

I used to work nights and I would have to pass ELEVEN schools to get home, usually my shift would run late and I would end up driving home at prime school drop off time.

I have never witnessed such appalling driving and parking in my whole life, my reactions were obviously slightly less sharp after working a 12 hour shit which also didn’t help! Kids would literally fly out of vehicles, run between the cars. People would obviously be looking for a space so not concentrating on the road ahead and then swerve in suddenly to their desired space often with the back end of their car hanging out in the road. It was like a real life version of the driving theory test when you had to spot the hazards!

They still do it when the child gets to secondary school. I now avoid going home around the time my nearest school finishes (especially in winter) because of the number of parents who park on the "no stopping" zone. It encourages the teenagers to run across the road, in black coats, on a bend, at dusk. I've had a couple of near misses despite driving really slowly and I'm sure that someone will get knocked over at some point.

The council / police put out the ANPR cameras once each year and nobody stops illegally that day. They know it is illegal, they must know it is dangerous, but they just don't care.

our local psco is brilliant attends all schools etc if anyone moans on similar a few words from him all clear

Judging from when I lived in London, it's also perfectly ok to park in a disabled bay outside someone's house to pick up your little darling.

I solved the problem by double parking my car so she couldn't drive her car home - I looked out of my upstairs window at her ranting and raving and swearing at me, I smiled sweetly and closed the window. A couple of hours later her man turned up to have a go at ranting and raving to no avail. I removed my car the following day, She never parked there again and nor did any of the other parents - I reckon she passed on the message.

I used to drive to work and always knew when the private schools in Chelsea were on holiday by the absence of huge SUVs with multiple Dc crammed in the back, They took every available space and if none were free, they would park diagonally across a corner, half on the pavement. Lastly they would block the traffic because the yummy mummys were paying more attention to the children than the road. Grrr.

The best I've seen is a car parked on a primary school zig-zags, eating a sausage roll, while his child got out on the traffic side of the road.

This thread is depressing.
I am starting to think cars are contributing to human intelligence and progress going backwards.
They make people selfish, parking as close as possible to school or wherever. They make people lazy. They make people soft. When did it become necessary for healthy teens to be dropped at school!
And we wring our hands at obesity, lack of resilience (yes teenagers who can't cope with rainy journeys aren't resilient.)
I'm starting to think we need a revolution,
I do think our descendents will look back in horror at how backward thinking we were, entombed in our metal boxes that give the illusion of freedom, but are really prisons, taking away peace, tranquility and safety.
Pavement parhers are utter bastards and deserve a special ring in hell devoted to them.

Have you noticed that the larger the vehicle, the punier the little darling inside it?

Keep reporting to your local council and they will send traffic wardens down there.

Oh shit sorry OP, I am a tit, I have had two glasses of wine and voted wrong.

Shit school parkers are the pits, I live next door to a school and I hate the wankers that reverse down my (long) drive for their own personal parking space or those that sit and park at the top half on the pavement that restricts my view and so I cannot see the little ones when I try to get out.

nobs and entitled twats the lot of them,

Take photos, send them to your local council. Repeat every damn day until traffic wardens ticket the lot of them. And again if the lazy entitled idiots reappear.

Apart from causing the obvious obstructions now, these morons are teaching the little minds that they are dropping off that it’s ok to do this. And the next generation will continue to do the same

The (secondary) school my kids go to has a car park for pick ups; it's across the road from the school and probably a 1-2 minute walk from the gate for the kids.

Loads of parents pick their kids up by car but I am one of the few that park there; most of them couldn't bear for their darlings to walk into the car park and so park in a line in the entrance to it, which means there's very little space for those of us that want to park in the actual car park to actually get through.

There is also a petrol garage next door to the car park and parents absolutely fill the forecourt with their cars. It's actually quicker for the kids to walk to the car park than the garage but as it's along the road the parents must perceive it as nearer to the school.

The other odd thing is the amount of parents that park in the car park entrance in the line that get there very early to ensure they get 'their' spot so their child doesn't have to walk as far. I've often driven past the car park during the day and have seen a couple of parents' cars parked there regularly, 90 minutes before school ends! So weird!

I live near a faith school. I might write to the Archbishop of Canterbury and ask if "Thou shalt not park on the fucking yellow lines" be added as the eleventh commandment. If the traffic wardens aren't a deterrant maybe eternal damnation will be.