To be quietly satisfied that the arse that parks every day on the yellow zig zags outside school got a partking ticket today?

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As did all of the other twats who park on the normal yellow lines opposite the school screwing up the traffic flow for everyone else?

I felt a quiet glow when the traffic wardens were out in force!

Snort at Blu!

Agree totally - I used to have a Land Rover when I had horses and would always be very considerate. I think there should be a law that you can't drive a 4x4 that isn't fitted with a towbar!

The cars don't drive themselves though do they! and I'm just pointing out what happens at my Dc's school, not saying that it happens like this everywhere.

Dh is a black man, and funnily enough, he has noticed it too.

Farmers and their wives need 4x4's.

I park away from the school too and walk.

yay! result That would vertainly have brought a big grin to my face.

It was a 4*4 naturellement but the driver is not African - at such racist generalisations!

AngryParker. Are you saying that you believe that the colour of a persons skin leads them to drive and park in a certain way? how bizarre.

Nobody does something inconsiderate because of how much melanin they have in the epidermis

angryparker, i'd advise getting your posts deleted.

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Oh god, yes - if AngryParker gets her post deleted then my post will be stand-alone, and I'll look like a raving racist, and it'll be AlohaGate all over again

i know that her posts alone were not racist (in the slightest), its the other people commenting on them that is making the thread more and more racially offensive.

What do you mean, Flier?

That it is people challenging AP that is making the thread racialy offensive??

For what it's worth, I don't see why AP shouldn't voice her opinion (and it's unlikely that the MNHQ would agree - they usually go with the 'argue back approach)- it's a discussion board and we can all challenge her view or say 'that's not my experience' or whatever. How that makes the thread 'more racially offensive' I don't know!

There must be a lot of white Africans in the very white city where I work who park all over the zigzags outside my school gates and park and drive their big expensive rides even worse outside the indy school quarter of a mile away.

yay for traffic wardens

I wish we could get SOMEONE to sort out the parking at our school.
People are so lazy or scared of getting wet that they park where ever...zig-zags, double yellow, pavements, bus stops and grass verges.
The school put up a banner to ask people to think of the children. The children even disigned it themselves.
What happened... someone nicked it.
I complain to the head and local council till I am blue in the face.... nothing.
Will it take a child to be hurt to get it solved?
Rant over

Our school had a parking meeting yesterday with the Head, local residents and the community police and Councillors. Waiting to see the outcome!

I work for a highways Dept ofa local council, so deal with designing roads, etc and I cannot see a way to design out the problems of parking at school - it must be frustraiting if you live there, but it is only for max 2 hours a day! they must love the holidays!

THe problem with parents and school parking is two things

1. General laziness and selfishness of parents who think they have the right to park as close to the school as they can, and dont even know what the zig zag lines mean. Unfortunatley you cannot to much to educate this type of person, as they would not listen to the voice of reason. Maybe a few more parking fines may make them think again.

1. The other problem is working parents (of which I am one). We take the kids to school and then are going to work, so it is not feasible to walk the kids to school and then walk home to get the car and then go to work - especially if you are tight on time. The other one related to this is that less kids walk to school as they do not go to their local school anymore - we are guilty of this as DD school is 1.5 miles from our house. But that was our choice.

There is no solution to this, but if a few more people get fined then it may work. We park 1 street away from school and walk for 3 mins - which is a compromise an we have to cross a main road with the 'lollipop lady'!

I get very furious with the ignorant bastards who stop on zigzags...and also wonder what it does for the kids respect for the school to see a parent blatantly disregard the law, and the pleas of the Head..BUT in truth, I am not sure how the zigzags actually create safety where they are placed.

As in most schools, opposite the main entrance there is a lengthy fence along the kerb, preventing children fom dashing straight out of school, across the pavement and into the road. The zzs are paralell with, and run the length of, the fence. SO everyone crosses the road either side of the fence - exactly where the allowed parking begins. Wouldn't the zzs be better placed at either end of the fence where people actually cross the road?

That fence barrier needs to be resited, that's daft blu
Our school has a small minority of selfish parkers and yes, they are usually in f-off stupidly big cars
We issue a list of the local streets where non-permit spaces abound and some of them (including the one where we live) are literally five minutes' walk from the school. We even indicate the walk time.
The problem is critical from 8.40 onwards - up to 40 minutes after those of us who WOTH and commute will have dropped off our children for Breakfast Club.
So if we are going to make irrelevant generalisations likely to cause offence, I'd like to point the finger at SAHMs

Our zig zags go well beyond one end of the fence. The lollipop lady is at the other end as well as the car entrance(for staff only). Then there are white chevron markings. People often park there ~ outside the staff car entrance and facing the oncoming traffic and near to the lollipop lady to 'drop' their kids off...couldn't be more dangerous if they tried really.

We've had brave parents vlunteer to approach the miscreants and remind them that they are not supposed to park on the zig zags and that thier numbers are being taken and will be handed to the headteacher to be passed on the police.

This was agreed at the Parent Council (with the head teacher there).

They do get abuse though. There are periodic blistzes though and it gets better for a while.

Every so often they do send a traffic warden down to book the culprits properly.

Actually, I have thought about it again, and I think the zzs do extend for a considerable distance either end of the fence.

yesterday at pick up time there were 2 delivery vans outside the school both parked on zig zags (the school has a carpark they could have pulled into and would have been closer to their delivery point!)

I think it certainly helps at DS1's school that start times are slightly staggered so that the first group's cars and parents have gone by the time the others arrive. Also the school has 3 entrance points for the different age groups so the cars are distributed evenly (ish) round the entire school site.

same thing at dd's school. And the cars block the taxi's bringing in the disabled children. I'd cube their cars, incosniderate wankers.

YANBU

they are having a big crackdown at the DCs school again. traffic wardens out in force.. and a paragraph in the newsletter pointing out it is the same few parents who park in the drop off zone and congest the area for everyone..

hysterical watching the parents run back to their cars and drive off , pretneding they had no intention of parking there at all !

I would have stood there clapping!!!!

We have people parking on zigzags and coned off areas. I have 6 kids and I park a short walk away.

I reckon if they can't park safely and get all their children around then they shouldn't have had so many of them as they clearly can't manage them properly.

Stupid women