Arggghhhh

[SanctiMoanyArse]

Big parking issues in village; local new Comp Head has banned students from parking in school (and the parents of younger students) so about 200 cars expected to add to our already few very, very narrow village rat run. Neitehr of the kids in the car have a blue badge and even if he did, the GP is opposite so spaces taken either by patients or by the incredible running man who has a blue badge but runs from the car to school, leaving his wife BF in the back (no kids at school who would have a blue badge that he could be collecting)

Hence, DS3's school taxi has been instructed by police he cannot be dropped off at school any more.

DS1 has to be picked up at same time.

Anyone got the loan of a chainsaw to saw myself in half, please? TIA

Phone up your local councillors and ask them to come down to observe the congestion problems at the start and end of the school day.

Secondly, Write a letter to the head teacher asking her to review the parking arrangements.

Phone up the Health and Safety unit of the local authority and ask them whether they have a policy for parking and road safety in the vicinity of schools. Or phone up the HSE and ask them what advice they give to schools about parking and Drop-off arrangements.

I find it difficult to believe that the Police have given such Instructions to a taxi driver. Ask the Police to confirm what they actually said.

you're not having much luck at the moment are you! Will the head not make an exception for school transport, I know our school does. Were the police aware that ds3 was on transport rather than just with parents?

btw, it's a tardis you want, chainsaw will chaffe a little

I beleive it Lucinda as I have witnessed them get angsty on several occasions: road is a one way system that gets lined each side with cars and serves three schools and the university, all kicking out at same time. It's beyond manic, can queue right out of village. Apparently the resultant pollution actually pushes our village above safe levels (or so I read).

lots of good ideas, thank you. boys at other school are 9 and 10 and so if ds1 weren't also auutistic he could walk home, but he can't, and next eyar i will be dropping pre-schooler at nursery and have 2 SN taxis coming through if we get the SN placement we want....

I might skip the school head though as ds1 will go there if he doesn;t get SN placement and I wary about satrting with a rep: I shall have one soon enough, no doubt.

Pop in to the local Police Station and ask them to relax the rules for school taxi.

Tardis excellent LOL

WRt to school Head, it's the next school down, not the one the boys attend. There's no off road aprking at the boy's school (clearly a bad idea in itself but it was built and surrounded by houses in the 1700s so I suppose I can't blame that on school LOL )

They know it's a taxi, clearly signed and I've tried chatting to them before to explain as has DH. But they do hold up traffic- the road gets lined with people who park all over the yellow lines in great Mitusibishis and builders vans, and there's no space left to pull in even.

There same problem with ds taxi to but when was explained that its ataxi for ds3 who has sn and that escorted they issued a special permit

The Health and Safety Executive ask local authorities to have plans for road safety on and around school premises. Look at the HSE web site.

Your local Authority will have a Health & Safety Committee. Ask one of your councillors to raise the issue at that committee.
Is there a school crossing patrol.

I did speak (or rather email) Officer at lcoal office before and he was supposed to visit but never turned up; need to chase. last time presented him with a 'here's the issue, what would you suggest?' sort of scenario rather than yell (because they are right, it is a nightmare road. I've been hit on it before).

LEA say there's a possibility ds3 can be dropped off after the other child but that leaves him with a 90 minute journey .

There isn;t a crossing parol any more, she was replaced with a pelican crossing and traffic calming measures.

Where do the staff/HT of the schools park? We have draconian parking restrictions around the school and by pre-arrangement, those that need to be dropped outside school can drop on-site. This is a gated area, and those dropping off pull up and block the staff cars - but hey, they don't need them at that time.

I foyu go around the back, there's a little compound the school uses but tbh the traffic there is even worse (directly outside comp) and there's so many other children there that a taxi would be a bad idea- currently a car free zone at pick up time.