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.

@Plonque you need one of those police stinger things that you can expand / contract as required, or maybe a folding bollard if you're feeling less aggressive. Some of them will no doubt drive right into it anyway!

Haha, that's an idea tootles off to google stingers

@sar302

Ah the infamous schrodinger's yellow lines. They simultaneously exist and don't exist - their reality is based on your interpretation of the situation....

😂😂

When I used to work in a nearby town, the traffic was always backed up going in to town. I used to pass a primary school which was on the coming out of town side, if you see what I mean. There used to be one Mum who would stop outside the school on the double yellows, get out of the car, remove child from the back seat on the driver's side, go to boot, open boot and retrive back pack, put backpack on child (and a coat in winter), kiss and cuddle child, walk child to school door, I kid you not, 2 yards from pavement. Would get back in car and drive off totally oblivious of the chaos around her. All this time the traffic coming out of town would have to stop because there was a queue trying to get into town, so gridlocked. And there was an offroad parking area not more that 5 yards from the school door. Unbeliveable.

Double yellows = no parking at anytime, simple.

Hire a tractor ( a real one not a Chelsea one) and drive through shunting them out of the way!

Is this in Notting hill by any chance outside that nursery that’s named after a fruit and a Beatles song ????
The huge tractors with thier engines driven by drivers while the mummies gossip blocking the pavements so the local elderly can’t get past snd are ignored even tho they are saying excuse me several times ..

@LadyFelsham

Hire a tractor ( a real one not a Chelsea one) and drive through shunting them out of the way!

DH has a tractor, a real one. I've often looked wistfully out of the window at the utter chaos and implored him to go and whack a few wing mirrors off with it, but he won't! Spoilsport

At our school there’s an on-site but privately run nursery. Has its own separate carpark and entrance, you walk down a path by the back of the school to the nursery.

Still apparently it’s ok for the parents of the nursery to walk the wrong way round the schools one way system as they’re not school parents so don’t have to follow the schools rules. All because the schools exit is closer to the nursery entrance than the nursery car park.

Parents around here think it's perfectly OK to park in the drop-off zone and get out of their car and let their child out (either pavement side or road side will do, doesn't matter that the latter is dangerous), then possibly have a chat with other parents, when they've specifically been told numerous times that they MUST NOT leave their cars as it's for kids capable of getting out by themselves and it's causes havoc with sensible parents like me holding up the traffic because I'm having to wait for a space that should have been vacated in less than a minute after arriving

YANBU so here's what you do... do you have a printer?

Print signs, big A4 coloured ones that read: Congratulations for parking like a douche on double yellow lines and for making everyone else lives who live here a total misery. 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆

Then put it under the windscreen wiper. Repeat as necessary.

From what I've seen on MN this shit really winds people up. 🤣

Our school publishes the offending car number plates in the school newsletter, that seems to help! Every September it’s awful again with new parents pretending the double yellows don’t exist.

Yes. YABU

Double yellows = no parking at anytime, simple
Not so.

If a recent thread on school parking was anything to go by I think you'll find the rules are somewhat more complicated:
Don't park on double yellows or school markings and don't block access to properties and don't just stop in the middle of the road whilst your children 'jump out', unless you have a very important job to do in which case everyone should be more understanding of your schedule as your day is so packed that you literally don't have 5 minutes to walk from the next street

Our local school FINALLY had a police presence at pick up last week (been here 11 years, first time I've seen one) it hasn't stopped anyone, still there this week because they know it'll probably be 11 years before the next police visit!

From the past 12 years of school runs and nursery runs ... yeah... you basically get the parents that walk. The parents that drive but know how to park where there is a suitable and legal place to park. And then you get the don’t give a fucks who will continue to park wherever they like and block driveways and school gates and roads and pavements etc regardless of being repeatedly told not to. My youngest is still at primary school and they take photos of the offending cars and put them in the newsletter but still no difference they continue to do it.

We’ve also had the council send traffic wardens out and basically everyone behaves that day because they see the warden already there when they arrive and don’t do it and then the next day when he’s gone they go back to normal.

Also I hate dogs being tied up outside schools. I don’t mind if it’s quite a wide path or something so you can avoid but I hate when they literally tie them to the pedestrian gate! Multiple children in the school are scared of dogs and end up scared because the minute they walk out the gate a dog is sniffing them or even jumping up in some cases. I also feel sorry for the dogs. No matter how many times you tell kids not to touch strange dogs they all crowd round to pet the poor dog that’s been left tied up without it’s owner and is now surrounded by strange people all making noise and sticking hands near it’s head.

People park really dangerously at my children's school on zigzags and across the crossing. I take photos and email it to the local community police, parish council and the school (they love me). Periodically the police email back to say they're sending the owner of the car some kind of letter about their parking.

A local junior school has signs which say parking here could cost a child their life. They still park on the zigzags and double yellows. The school has a deal with a local car park that you can park for free minutes away but they prefer risking kids lives and blocking a nearby single track road.

@TeaSoakedDisasterMagnet

Yes I think it says in the Highway Code “illegal to park on double yellow lines, unless picking up your child from nursery school.”

This.

And section (b) of that section of the Code says that it's fine to park on the pavement when collecting your child(ren) from school.

Section (c) covers the leaving one's engine running.

BTW...please remember you can park on DY if you display a blue badge with a clock.

Our school ended up having police presence outside for a couple of weeks. It kind of helped (people were parking on the local residents front gardens!!) but they still park like wankers.

I don’t drive so I’m probably just being a git about it but there’s an actual car park 5 minutes walk from the school. Unless you’ve got to get to work immediately after drop off, why are you driving to the front gate like Mr/Mrs important?

There must be somewhere you can park, even if you have to walk. You may think it's okay but traffic wardens won't agree.

It's terrible at the local secondary schools too. The parents don't appear to give a shit if they're blocking the road, the pavement or the view for anyone trying to drive out of the school. Busy bus route too. Add into that teenagers who don't think they're invincible so cross the road without looking, it's a miracle nobody has been badly hurt or worse

You've not seen the annexe to this that states

"The allowance for nursery parent to park on double yellows also includes sufficient time to have a tiff with another parent about playdates and insufficient party bag fillings at the birthday party she's not now going to be invited to, as well as an allowance for berating the Early Years Staff for failing to prevent Charlotte Emily from eating chocolate, as she's on a strictly vegan diet"