Just been abused on the school run.. parking!

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My three children attend two separate schools on the same road. I always make sure I park somewhere that isn’t blocking someone’s drive etc. DH parked in the usual spot today and I waited in the car today (I have a disability and get flare ups in the colder weather). She pulled up to the window effing and blinding then she got out the car and started recording me swearing in front of all the school kids. DH returned back and she started to recording DH and the kids. It was her dad’s property and she had accused us of blocking him in. We left more than enough space for him to get out I even offered to move the car.

I have attached a pic (the silver car wasn’t in front so if her dad needed to get out he had more than enough space. We parked on the white mark and there are other parents parked behind us.

I am trying to move my kids to a nearer school so I can walk and finally put the parking drama to bed. However currently going through the appeals process as the local school has stated that they have no space.

Were we unreasonable? I’m at the stage where I don’t even want to take them to school now because of lack of parking and the dirty stares and arguments being caused by this. I can appreciate it’s frustrating living near a school!

And again you’re proposing people just clog up the roads with parked cars rather than get them out of the way on to a drive! 🙄

Yabu

You are clearly jutting out in front of the drive over the dropped kerb.

Exactly! Less cars on the road back then! But let’s make an already over populated car situation worse by abolishing driveways so we can clog the roads even more 🤣 Right-I-o 😂

I think we’ve established that you can’t grasp the idea of public spaces for the benefit of all. So it’s hardly surprising that you don’t understand other simple matters.

I think we have grasped you’re absolutely batshit! I completely understand what you’re saying - absolutely doesn’t work! And thank fuck you’re not in charge of the law is all I can say 🤣

And, in many cases people are trying to retrofit the driveway where wasn't one previously.

It's fair to point out that it can mean reducing the parking capacity available for everyone else in the area, have it in mind where assessing, and potentially refuse on the grounds of not creating more parking spaces than removing.

I have read them. And none of it makes sense. People choose homes with drives for a reason. We’re talking about the elderly, the disabled, those with very young children/babies, easier to unload shopping, safety from on road parking where there’s inconsiderate drivers dinging or stealing your car.

No, I can get 4 cars on my driveway. We only have 2 but we have visitors. If my driveway wasn’t there you could only get 2 small cars at the front of my house on the road. This would lead to parking chaos.

Electric cars are generally charged on driveways.

Sure. But however you cut it a dropped kerb takes away parking on a public road. New off-street parking is the biggest problem.

That’s not typical.

Lots of cars, possibly most, that are charged at home are on the road.

Ah but they didn’t think of that did they? Imagine all those accident claims if people were to trip over some charging cable that was running from someone’s house to their car that is parked on the street… because all the driveways would be abolished if they have their way 🤣

Most driveways only take up 1 parking space. A lot of driveways have more than 1 car. You might like parking available for you on every street and think that the people in the street have no more right than you to park there but controlled residents only parking zones are very easy to set up where I live.

But it doesn’t. Most households have two plus cars which takes pressure off on street parking. If the dropped kerb wasn’t there, chances are it would only free up one space anyway. Have you ever lived on a street with no off-road parking? Absolute nightmare.

Absolutely cracking up at the volume of "no excuse for abuse but you parked like a INSERT ABUSIVE TERM HERE" posts.

The problem is parking provision is shut, everywhere. My DDs school is one of two schools in a housing estate. There are no restrictions on parking on the estate at all, but the residents are regularly outside losing their mind because they can't park outside their houses. I've had abuse and so has DP for parking entirely legally. If we are expecting everyone to work then we have to acknowledge that the just park 20mins away and stroll in happily is a luxury most parents don't possess.

So while plenty of posters are assuming that poor resident (who in this case doesn't even live there) is long suffering, it's not always the case that these events are because of inconsiderate parents. Often people are just mad.

Opposite DDs scout hall there's a small car park and a guy came to shoo us out of it because it was private. It isn't. He said he knows there are no signs stating that it's private but he assured me the cost of maintaining it came out of his rent. He just likes to park there.

Most car-owning households have one car. According to Google.

Many of the drives I see have space for one car in them.

But none of these points really matters. It is simply far more efficient for cars to come and go from spaces on the road than to allot spaces for particular cars.

I get that a drive will keep a car safer and be more convenient for the owner. Fine. I’m just saying that in a heavy-car use society we should try to maximise the public road space for all.

I guess self-driving cars would solve the problem because we’d need so many fewer of them.

Yup. That's where we are now, batshit crazy replies from - I assume - communists - who cannot bear the notion that anybody has anything which is not fully accessible by them. They'll be squealing that property is theft next.

I see the point about drive owners claiming a bit of road for themselves. It's true. Buying the house shouldn't automatically entitle a person to the road in front of it, whether that's for parking or access to a driveway. It does impact how people access local amenities, like hospitals or town centres which could do with the footfall.

There's a new block of houses by me and they all have driveways for one car and there's not enough space in between the driveway entrances to park a car so there's actually considerably less parking on my street now than there was. Plus the residents of the homes don't have front gardens. It doesn't make any sense.

@DenizenOfAisleOfShame
That is a misrepresentation of figures. 1 is the most common number, but over a third of all households have 2 or more cars. If people didn’t have drives it would be parking chaos. One of my children lives in a street without off street parking and the biggest problem they have coming home in the evening is if they can find somewhere to park.
It is also possible to put driveways in streets that don’t allow parking because of traffic. Where else would the people who live there park?

Park further away. Walking is good for your DC.

Oh FFS. I’m a dyed-in-the-wool Tory.

This subject seems to have brought out some very peculiar and erratic people who have drives.

What? The pp said “most” households have two cars. And you’re saying that I’m misrepresenting the figures! More households have one car than two or more. Of the groups who own a car, owning one is the biggest group.

And it’s not true that streets without drives have less parking. It depends on the occupancy, the size of houses, how many non-residents park in the street, what the controlled hours are, if any, etc etc.

Generally, more drives, less parking, other than for those with a drive.

Speak for yourself 🤣