It's fine to park in a bus stop for a few minutes?

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Hoping my title will fire up the same confusion and slight rage that it does in me.

I'm taking advantage of the anonymity of the internet to find out how many people genuinely think it's ok?

So far this week 3 times I've seen a local mum I know 'parked' - twice within the painted yellow area of a bus stop.

And once completely on the pavement - double yellow lines on the road beside it.

Frequently parks on double yellows too at school drop/pick up. The rest of us walk from a road away but always a few who ignore the lines.

These aren't for emergency situations. The bus stop was both times to get into the small Sainsbury's Local that has only 2 on street spaces outside. There's a small car park but it's a 2/3 minute walk. (I, like a mug, use the car park.)

The pavement time was to go into the chemist on our same small high street. This is a maybe 4 minute walk from the free car park which I use....

Be honest with me as I'm ND and maybe follow rules too easily.

I'm not unreasonable for finding this horrible, selfish behaviour right?

There must be MNer who do it too - if so why? Are the rest of us mugs for following rules?

I'm ND too but... I don't think it's an ND thing to say it's wrong to park in the bus stop.

I would stop at a bus stop if I was staying in the car, and somebody else was jumping out of the car for whatever reason. I would not stop at a bus stop and actually leave my car, unless it was an emergency.

This is why our buses occasionally have traffic wardens or pcso on them. The cars get booked. Last week it was a big suv blocking half the bus stop while about 8 people were stood waiting for a bus, how much of an idiot can you be

No.

Yeah she’s a selfish cunt. A depressingly significant amount of them around at school run time you find.

It's not something that should be done routinely, no. In an emergency perhaps, but I'm talking about a real emergency, not an I'm a bit late for the school run emergency. A bus stopping near a school needs somewhere safe to pull in. Even if you know the timetable, there could be a school outing coming back that you are unaware of. Doing it regularly may encourage others to do it too.

I know a bus driver who does this frequently, but admittedly only when he is working.

Hope they get a fine. Poo person

But you're still not a bus if you stay in the car..?

Well I don't drive but I am a bus user.
And people parking at bus stops causes bus drivers and passengers a lot of problems.
Sometimes I've had buses almost go right past me at the stop because of vans etc parked in the marked off area obscuring the drivers view of the bus stop.
Then sometimes the driver can't get right in to the kerb to drop passengers off because of the way cars are parked at the bus stop. Its a really big step down for elderly people, even with the lowered platform, if the driver has to let them off in the road rather than on to the edge of the pavement. Not mention making it impossible for wheelchair users or people with buggies to get off.

So yes parking at bus stops is really selfish.

People who think rules don't apply to them and they can park where they like give me the rage. Especially around schools, selfish entitled bellends.

Nope.

It makes me so angry! I live near a few schools and was getting off the bus once and there was a car in the bus stop obviously not keen on moving. The bus driver was great, he didn’t accept the little roll forward the driver offered which would have meant the bus pulled in at an angle and sticking way out from the kerb, he just kept on at him until he had to move out of the bus stop fully and drive off.

The bus driver said he wasn’t having people get off in the road. It’s so ignorant, the car driver had no idea if someone with poor mobility or in a wheelchair or with a pushchair was trying to get off.

Same here - drop off/pick up fine, turning off engine and getting out, not fine.

Let's hope a bus comes along while she's parked there, OP!

I frequently park on double yellows but never in a bus stop, bus stops are for buses.

Nope, these people are dickheads. And I am so incredibly bored of entitled drivers and their parking moans and their excuses. You have a car and a licence, you chose to have one, you knew the rules when you signed up for it. There was a test and everything. We don't care if its inconvenient for you, that's your problem to solve.

Every time someone moans about a late bus some smug driver pops up to say "well learn to drive then!"
Well if you can't park, get a bus then.

Aye but if a bus comes along you can drive off, therefore avoiding holding up the bus/passengers having to walk in the road

Ugh, as a non driver and regular bus user I hate this. Get out of the bloody way.

Last time I did it, to let disabled DH out, I got a ticket coz caught on camera

No it's an offence to park in a bus stop. People are selfish and couldn't care less today though sadly.
Hope the bus driver sees it and reports her.

It’s reminiscent of drivers who decide that you can park anywhere you like, providing you use the hazard flashers.

@Ratfinkstinkypink why do you frequently park on double yellows?

I drive a WAV, a wheelchair accessible vehicle, because my little boy travels in his wheelchair. If I park on the roadside in a parking bay it doesn't leave me enough room to get him back in as I can guarantee that someone will ignore the "Please leave 3m for wheelchair access" sticker on the back so I park on double yellows and use his blue badge and hope that no-one else pulls up behind us.

Would your mum friend mind if I parked in the parent and child spaces?

There's a small local supermarket near me that has a carpark with about 20 spaces right next to it. It's never full. Outside the front of the shop is a bus stop, double yellows and a cash machine on the further side of the door than the car park..about a twenty seconds walk. Guess where people always pull up and stop? 🙄