To want to leave my house with a pushchair at school run time?????

[FarcicalAlienQueen]

OK so maybe it's my own fault for living next door to the school. And admittedly the cars that park on our side on the street do have to park up on the pavement slightly (otherwise no-one could drive up/down the road).

However, it's perfectly possible to park slightly up on the pavement, and leave enough space for me to be able to exit my front gate with a pushchair.

Just as well I didn't need to take the DS's out anywhere this afternoon straight after picking DS1 up - and therefore had just put DS3 down for a nap and dashed next door - I would quite literally have NOT been able to get out - a car parked just centimeters from my gate.

When I got back sent DS1 back inside and waited to speak to the owner of the car. When I pointed out that there was no room to get a pushchair through she gave me a whole load of crap that "all the other cars on this side are parked on the pavement".......well yes they were - but 95% of them had left enough space to get a slightly larger than average pushchair past (I have an Hauck Infinity and could have got past the cars with it).

She muttered something about "where else was she supposed to park" (wanted to tell her where she was currently parked would do - just with more of the car on the road than the pavement but kept my mouth shut), got in the car and drove off without so much as a sorry

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We've lived here for nearly 3 1/2yrs now and it's NEVER been this bad for parents parking so inconsiderately.

You should have just let her tyres down before she came back and watched the fun from behind your curtains.

can you not report this, what if a wheelchair user had need to get passed? presumably if it was parked up solid they'd have struggled to get in between the parked cars to cross to the other pavement?

But Farcical, don't you know that her needs and convenience over-ride yours ???????????

Illegal to park on the pavement - come out of your house and scream like a banshee at them (when their kids are there of course) - they'll soon stop.

And a word with the headteacher might help.

Have a word with the school and ask them to send a letter out to parents, asking for considerate parking.. Might work!

I suppose I could report it......but nothing ever seems to get done about it, once in a while we'll have the traffic wardens etc mooching around at school closing time - but they seem to concentrate more on those that are parking across the school entrance (a few meteres up from where she was parked).

A wheelchair user would have been able to cross the road just before they reached her car (from either direction) as thankfully one thing that most of the parents are quite good at are leaving some space between vehicle ends.

Ironically - i've just read DS1's newsletter from the school.........there's a bit in there about complaints from parents and residents about parking on our street and asking for those parents that drive to be "more considerate"....

nametaken - I know it's illegal to park on the pavement - but it's not going to stop on the streets round here. I (and indeed most of the other parents/residents) don't really have an issue with people being parked slightly on the pavement - opposite side of the road all cars park completely on the road, our side (at some point in time) became the side where cars have to be parked up slightly.

It's just stupid ones like this women who don't seem to be able to park a bl**dy car.

I'm tempted to get a laminated sign and put it on my gate

"Please leave access for pushchair/wheelchair" (well my mum and dad come and visit....once in a blue moon...and mum does have a wheelchair - although at the moment is still able to walk the short distance from car to house - so the wheelchair bit wouldn't be lying......)

i fantaside about scratching inconsideratly parked cars with my pushchair when i'm walking to Nursery and DDs only been going a week.

maybe you should do it ?

My community officer said to me to type a letter saying i have taken down their numberplate and if they are unable to park with enough room for a buggy/wheelchair to pass again i will pass their details over to my community officer who will be in contact ...... or something like that.
Maybe in your case say .....buggy/wheelchair to pass or exit my front gate with a pushchair.....
I have lots of trouble where i live. I am forced to walk around cars on bends as there is no path on the otherside.
I have a few times knocked on the persons door asking them to move their van as i am unable to pass and refuse to push my dd on the road. This is when they are fully on the pavement. I rarely knock on the same door twice lol

its against the law to park on the pavement so call the police. This is a bugbear of mine, trying to get dd everywhere in her wheelchair with all the knobs parked on pavements.

You see the mentality that gets me is that ''we mustn't inconvenience the motorist but we can inconvenience the pedestrian''. Pavements are for pedestrians; justifying parking on the pavement on the basis that otherwise it will cause inconvenience to motorists by partially blocking the road is basically saying ''F**k You'' to pedestrians. It presumably hasn't ocurred to the ignorant and selfish woman who parked outside your house that she could have parked further away and actually walked a few yards ffs.

"When I got back sent DS1 back inside and waited to speak to the owner of the car."

Don't just let down the tyres - unscrew the inside of the valves and drop 'em down a drain, so they can't be easily reinflated. And remember to do at least two...

needmorecoffee - I know it's illegal - but there really isn't an option - if cars on both sides of the road park totally on the road - NO traffic could go up and down the street - the roads just aren't wide enough.

It's a PITA - but it IS workable if people just put their brains into gear for 5 seconds.

what do you mean by resident parking at set times? Do you mean that residents are only allowed to park there at certain times of the day??

Head teacher already knows - quite often when he's available he'll stand on the street and ask parents to move.......but he can't always do that.

Traffic wardens already do patrolling (occasionally) - makes sod all difference.

I think resident parking means that only the residents can park there between the set times.Everyone else can park outside those times only.
Really, if a road is too narrow for on-road parking both sides then one side should be double-yellow.

It's the same in my village. They sit there parked half way up the street, engines running, waiting for their kids to come out of school.

Bloody walk, you fat arses!!

There is no point asking the school to send out letters asking for "considerate parking" becuase those that are considerate do it already and the others won't pay any attention what so ever.

Exactly Desiderata .

yeah, they should walk. Sheesh, they wont melt!

my sister used to live next to a very popular secondary school and once came home from a night shift (shes a social worker)to find a parent had actually parked on her drive! she was absolutely stunned but when she complained to this parent the woman told her if she didnt like living next to a school then she should move!

Where I live (and I thought everywhere?) there are notices up if pavement parking is allowed, and the road is marked to show how far onto the pavement you can park (presumably so wheelchairs can get past). There is no option where "pavement parking is illegal unless it is inconvenient for drivers".

The school should have a travel plan to address some of these issues. How safe can it be for children walking down the pavement to and from school if cars are pulling up and off of there all the time? Sounds like an accident waiting to happen, I'd be complaining left right and centre to school and police.

I encountered this yesterday, whilst trying to walk along the pavement. Stupid woman had parked right up close to a holly bush, which meant yours truly had a choice between getting prickled, or bumping into her wing mirror. Guess which I chose? She was getting into the driver's seat on the other side as I passed. I was waiting for her to comment, actually, as I was spoiling for a bit of a verbal punch up, (is there a hormonal emoticon?) but she let it go. Just as well, perhaps.

I often look at the lovely houses near DSs school then think "oh I would live on this road everyone would block our drive"

I agree with 159 put a pleasant but firm letter on their windscreen and if they keep doing it start taking numbers!!

Our lollypop lady has just quit as she has nearly been run over a few times, the parents give her lots of abuse if she points out that they shouldnt be parking near the school. The headmaster and community officer regularly came and stood out with her but in the end she just had enough of the parents attitude, they just didnt park there for a day or so then back to usual.

Amazed at a parent parking on someones drive.