Licensed Taxi Stopping On Yellow Zig zag Lines

achtunglady

C_Mababejive wrote: »

There you see achtung lady,,you can park there now instead of parking up the road and walking down to school in the pouring rain.

I walk my kids to school, thank you very much for assuming and presuming, unlike some my kids arent made of sugar nor will they fade in the rain.

The council will soon be making the area outside the school a 20mph zone with speed humps and a zebra crossing as the school is fed up of telling parents not to park/stop/let out kids/pick up kids on the yellow zigzags, they have been asking for over 8 years but it falls on deaf ears, so great to hear that enforcable points and £60 fines will be mandatory on white zigzags.

peter_the_piper

C_Mababejive wrote: »

There you see achtung lady,,you can park there now instead of parking up the road and walking down to school in the pouring rain.

How, precisely, does that add substance to the thread or assist the OP?

C_Mababejive

Makes you wonder how kids managed in the past. I used to cycle to school,a distance of about 10 miles. I did that for about 3 years in total in rush hour traffic.

DaveF327

achtunglady wrote: »

on looking at my photo in zoomed in detail he didnt have the stick on signs in his window back or front to show he was a licensed cab driver, just his id license dangling from the rear view mirror

What about near the number plates?

Coupon-mad

achtunglady wrote: »

The council will soon be making the area outside the school a 20mph zone with speed humps and a zebra crossing as the school is fed up of telling parents not to park/stop/let out kids/pick up kids on the yellow zigzags, they have been asking for over 8 years but it falls on deaf ears, so great to hear that enforcable points and £60 fines will be mandatory on white zigzags.

Sounds good, but I do hope they will also make provision for some disabled parking bays as well.

Your description of the unmarked 'taxi' sounds as if it could possibly have been a social services car picking up a child with a disability. Now the driver should certainly have known better, I agree - but this service is a classic example of a car that DOES need to park close to the school. Don't get so petty as to start collecting numberplates, that borders on obsessive!

I know because I used to do exactly that job in an ordinary unmarked car with no other escort, just me with my ID badge. Some parents glared and one even wrote down 'my' numberplate because I always parked by the school gate - not on a zig-zag or other line though.

I just smiled (laughed at her pettiness, truth be told!) and explained politely that I was not a parent but was collecting a disabled child (the child was autistic, I had to have the car as near as possible for their safety). I pointed out that the car belonged to the Council...and would she mind telling me exactly what she intended doing with the numberplate information...?

She scuttled off back to her narrow-minded friends!

Let's not forget that not every child can walk to and from school (some with physical and non-obvious disabilities would always need to be picked up safely right outside).

achtunglady

Coupon-mad wrote: »

Sounds good, but I do hope they will also make provision for some disabled parking bays as well.

Your description of the unmarked 'taxi' sounds as if it could possibly have been a social services car picking up a child with a disability. Now the driver should certainly have known better, I agree - but this service is a classic example of a car that DOES need to park close to the school. Don't get so petty as to start collecting numberplates, that borders on obsessive!

I know because I used to do exactly that job in an ordinary unmarked car with no other escort, just me with my ID badge. Some parents glared and one even wrote down 'my' numberplate because I always parked by the school gate - not on a zig-zag or other line though.

I just smiled (laughed at her pettiness, truth be told!) and explained politely that I was not a parent but was collecting a disabled child (the child was autistic, I had to have the car as near as possible for their safety). I pointed out that the car belonged to the Council...and would she mind telling me exactly what she intended doing with the numberplate information...?

She scuttled off back to her narrow-minded friends!

Let's not forget that not every child can walk to and from school (some with physical and non-obvious disabilities would always need to be picked up safely right outside).

I saw the parent and child get into the car and neither are disabled ( i know this as i work in the said same school), the mother was just too lazy to be bothered to cross the road had the taxi parked up legally in the space that two cars could have fitted in

C_Mababejive

Typical...but then humans by nature ,are often lazy and selfish. As long as they prosper or do well,they dont care who suffers detriment.

Coupon-mad

achtunglady wrote: »

I saw the parent and child get into the car and neither are disabled ( i know this as i work in the said same school), the mother was just too lazy to be bothered to cross the road had the taxi parked up legally in the space that two cars could have fitted in

Hmmm...that's your assumption, and that of some other recent posters, but bear with me.

The girl I collected until recently also used to sometimes travel with her mother, and would not have 'looked' disabled to anyone watching. She didn't have any physical disability but for her own safety she needed the car next to the school (not parked across the road under any circumstances, even if it meant waiting for a space).

Like you, I also work in a (different) school now and I don't presume to know about the issues with every child there - because obviously the really sensitive info is only advised on a need-to-know basis among just a couple of staff.

Do you honestly know everything about all the children in the school - and can be sure that there are no child protection issues, unseen disabilities, etc. etc? If so then you must be either the school nurse, the form teacher or the headteacher - other staff would not necessarily be aware. Not all children receiving social services help are statemented or have learning disabilities as such.

But the driver you saw - with an ID badge and no car markings - IMHO would not have been a licensed taxi driver. He sounds exactly like a social services driver.

I sincerely hope the child in question doesn't have any such problems and it was just a one-off occurrence that the driver won't repeat. I am not defending his driving but I hope this post has given some posters food for thought after being so quick to judge the mother (after all she wasn't driving).

Not all kids can/should be crossing roads if it can be avoided, let alone walking to school. And people who work in the school ranting at them and taking photos wouldn't help...please bear this in mind if you see such a driver again. I shouldn't think Boris J would help matters either!