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.

@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....

No, they're quite simple, no-one can park on them except Moi. An obscure ancient law absolves those who have bred from obeying 90% of the laws of the land.

@Forgottenwhatsleepis

Its also perfectly acceptable to stop at the zebra crossing to let your little secondary school age darlings out, so they can walk across the crossing and straight in the school gates. All the while teachers are watching this happen and not doing a damn thing about it!

Good for those teachers, why do you expect them to police the parking, as well as all the other non-school crap you parents expect them to deal with?

I live near a primary and the parking you see is majestical in it's stupidity.

I swear it's one of the reasons the local bus operator changed it's route as the buses couldn't get down the street on a regular basis.

Grass verges? They are there to be wheel spun on. Driveways? So polite of people to save them the effort of stepping over grass or a kerb.

The prat who's desecrated his beautiful but hideously expensive car with a tacky vanity plate is a different matter of course but it's a whilst I'm on the subject moment.

Some people are being quite unreasonable about yellow lines as it is also perfectly alright to park in a village on the junctions, ON someone’s drive and on both sides of a narrow road near the T junction so that when yummy mummies and young men that are either dad or big brother in a swish white BMW convertible go to collect darling snowflakes the big bus with big children from Secondary School have to wait as the bus driver can’t get the bus through without knocking the wing mirrors off or scraping even if she was tempted. Said young man when checked politely by a village person😚 said the lady bus driver should learn to drive before driving a bus! 🤯village person suggested he might read the Highway Code before he passed his test, apparently he has must have been a rainy Friday afternoon and the examiner missed the parking bit out.Bus driver said she gets constant abuse from anyone she suggests could park more considerately. Like all on the same side of the road and not near the t junction.
As said villager has now retired she watch the antics from her cosy cottage with a big mug of tea every morning as well as afternoon if she wants a laugh. Then she can be a grumbly old person and discuss parking with the old git that lives there. It has been more entertaining since lock down but they wish the white vans wouldn’t drive up mount the curb and give them a slight heart attack as they look like he might be driving into sitting room. They like the other driver who asks for directions and are now on first name terms. The old git likes the pretty blond girl best who delivers to the neighbours.Oh and the man that delivers the wine.
Don’t know anything about Chelsea tractors we have John Deer and Massey Ferguson here you can have one for free if you buy the 1.2 million farm. You can buy the dog kennels for the same price but you don’t get a tractor. It is BMWs, Mercedes, Range Rovers and Audi with the odd battered estate car that granny drives. The red Astra is friends with the VW next door their owners are smug because they don’t need to find a parking space as they can walk the two minutes to the school😁

At the school I used to work at, the headteacher got so annoyed by dangerous parking that she started putting cones outside to stop the parents parking there. One father used to pull up outside and remove the cones and park there anyway. The headteacher of the school in my village is forever begging and pleading on social media for parents to be ‘considerate of our neighbours’. They don’t take a blind bit of notice.

Schools hands are completely tied on this sadly. Many parents are totally blinkered and entitled and think that their need to get their child to school on time is more important thang the safety and convenience of anyone else. And yes, I know it’s hard for working parents but seriously get out of bed a bit earlier, leave earlier, breakfast club runs from 8am, there is absolutely no need for parking badly right at the last moment and to be Frank once a child is junior school aged they don’t need a parent to to walk them to the fucking door. I was walking to school a line with friends from the age of eight for fucks sake!

Our local primary is like this. Has double yellows and zig zags outside the school parents don't care. It's a main bus route and has a row of house opposite its carnage at school run times.

Tip off the actual parking enforcement officers about nursery start and end times each time you see some, they're financially motivated to care.

I grabbed a random kids hood once to pull him back to safety as there were cars everywhere on the double yellows and he was trying to cross but couldn't see past them. I could see over them so noticed the car coming just as he was stepping out. Another kid got run over once. Still the parking saga continues.

@LoveMyKidsAndCats scary. Glad you were there.

The person who said to take pictures and report- that's a good idea

At DD secondary school, I was astonished at the amount of kids that didn't know how how to cross a road. I'm not excusing kids walking into traffic but my kids would be a lot less savvy crossing the roads as theyve spent most of their life rurally. While they know how to cross the road they wouldn't have daily experience in it-not even weekly experience

It's a dire lack of funding. We have a volunteer here in our town in Italy who closes the road 15 minutes before the school bell goes and keeps it closed for 15 mins after. A proper bar across the road. I imagine if you said you were a resident you could move. But we also have a police presence there every day to enforce it, including making people dismount bicycles. After England's chaos, it opened my eyes to see what a proper system looks like.