To stand on road to stop parents parking illegally

[ChimneyPot]

Parking at our primary school has been hazardous for years. There is a crossing guard on the main road at the school gates but not on a side road lots of kids have to cross. Parents park on the double yellow lines at the junction of the side road blocking lines of site for pedestrians and cars trying to turn in and out. This often results in the road getting blocked and cars reversing back on to main road.
School sends repeated communication to parents without impact and has asked local authority for bollards and this is under consideration but hasn’t happened yet.

I used to collect my DC from the gate because of the risks but DC wants to be more independent and meet me further away.

I started asking parents not to park and the junction but have been largely ignored so I have started standing on the edge of the road to prevent people parking and this has been effective.
Today someone I know signalled to me to move but I smiled and shook my head and they had to park a few metres down the street . They are not happy with me.

AIBU to block the road?

I was thinking the same.

Around here they close the busy city roads that go past school to cars either end of the school day. Causes traffic mayhem but protects the kids. What annoys me is that this only really happens in the middle class areas, as they are the people who the councillors get letters from.

Yes of course people know that houses are near schools when they buy them. But they don't expect people to park inconsiderately or illegally. If you take your kids to school, you park sensibly: not on a yellow line/in a restricted zone, not on a grass verge, not on a pavement, not across a driveway and not with your engine running. Do that and only busybodies will whine and you can legitimately ignore them. Do anything I mentioned, and you deserve a parking fine.

And there is always the option to walk for most. If those who could walk or cycle, did, there would be more room on the roads and parking areas for those who do need to drive. But heaven forbid that anyone should act considerately, as your post illustrates.

Anyone else notice that the parking wankers are almost always a particular "type" too?

Police won’t be interested unless there is an accident

Our primary school regularly has community police officers during drop off and pick up reminding parents about safety, they also have signs and bollards. Despite shitty parking and inconsiderate driving there has only ever been one accident near to, but not in front of, the school in the 18yrs it's been there and that was my own child.

All the ones saying you are unreasonable are the idle fuckers who park wherever they like as long as they don't have to walk more that two feet to take their kids to school even though they live just round the corner.
I live opposite a school so I know this.
Good on you OP. Keep it up. 😁

All power to you @ChimneyPot

I find it so astonishing that parents who drive their DC to school are so very concerned about their own children's safety, that they regularly put other children's safety at risk.

There are a fair few of parents of that type on this thread.

So come on, tell us why you do it (and I don't include parents with disabilities here, although you shouldn't be parking like wankers either).

Always the same cars do this at our school. Mum that’s always late in her 4x4, one family in a beaten up old Honda with stickers all over the inside and a dad who drives a taxi for a living. Every, single, day.

All the ones saying you are unreasonable are the idle fuckers who park wherever they like as long as they don't have to walk more that two feet to take their kids to school even though they live just round the corner.

Yup, well said @Aconitum . I wish they'd be honest and under the veil of MN anonymity, tell us why they are such lazy fuckers, prepared to put the safety of other people - and children - at risk.

YANBU and full marks for the diagram BTW.

Sadly I think this is one of those issues that happens every where and has for years. 20 years ago when I was taking DD to primary, parents in cars were asked to use the large church car park 5 minutes walk away (church gave permission). However there were always so many who ignored this and would park on the narrow road outside the school and in the bus parking space, blocking access, preventing the bus to stop in the designated space, doing dodgy maneuvers and generally making it difficult to cross safely.

Every so often a police officer would spend an hour there moving on and talking to all cars parking where they shouldn't be. This would improve things for a short while but then they would go back to the same old.

Unfortunately it's the same parents time and time again who think they are above the law with regards to parking

Sounds like you have way too much time on your hands tbf

Sounds like you have way too much time on your hands tbf

probably as she walks and isn’t spending hours driving round searching for parking

YANBU I regularly fantasise about doing similar things.

I don't think you are being unreasonable. But you'll probably become known as that crazy annoying woman that stands in the road

Oh my God, get a life, you lunatic

Rubbish. OP isn’t blocking the road.

If they have a blue badge aren't they allowed to park on single and double yellow lines?

Invested? What, in her child and others being able to safely cross roads next to their school?

I applaud you OP. Although I do worry a bit for your safety.

You’re bound to get the ‘haven’t you got anything better to do’ brigade. Ignore the wankers. They just mean ‘I want to do as I please so let me’.

Well done OP. So many dick heads in this world. As people said entitled, selfish and they will get what is coming to them.

No near junctions, with a double white line for example, but there are lots of places you cannot use a blue badge, some parts of London also have different rules.

Good for you. My son and I were hit by an idiot who decided to stop on the zigzags to let her kid out of the car then started to reverse without bothering to look as we crossed the road behind her. In my experience, most people are lazy wankers that would rather block the zig zags and double yellow lines than walk 20ft from a safer place the park to the school gate 😡😡😡

Read the OP.

I reported the incident to the school and the local council. Neither did anything. Council told me they would send someone along to ticket parents. No one came. Someone will be killed along the road by our school. It’s getting worse.

I think you’ve completely misunderstood the meaning of the word ‘jobsworth’.