Can a nursery do anything about people parking on the pavement outside the nursery

burtons

tomitma wrote: »

What is it that you have against drivers/disabled drivers?

You must be bored, mind you living in your area I can see why.

I didn't mention disabled people this time.
So when people park on the pavement and you have always told your children don't walk on the road and walk on the pavement how are they going to learn if they got to walk on the road when people are parking on the pavements.

So where you from tomitma?

pulliptears

Its not just about parents with children, its about the blind, the disabled who have to struggle to get their wheelchairs off a pavement without a dropped kerb and on to the roadway then back up the kerb because some ignorant ba$tard can't park properly.

hartcjhart

pulliptears wrote: »

its not just about parents with children, its about the blind, the disabled who have to struggle to get their wheelchairs off a pavement without a dropped kerb and on to the roadway then back up the kerb because some ignorant ba$tard can't park properly.

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tomitma

burtons wrote: »

I didn't mention disabled people this time.
So when people park on the pavement and you have always told your children don't walk on the road and walk on the pavement how are they going to learn if they got to walk on the road when people are parking on the pavements.

So where you from tomitma?

I used to live where you are.

xangeleyes

You need to find out if the parking area also belongs to the nursery - if it does, then they will be able to do something about it, however, if they haven't already done anything, perhaps it's safe to say that they don't own it.
Is it the staff who are taking up these spaces?
Perhaps you could talk to the council about it or even the local community manager about getting some kind of extra parking MADE near by. I'm sure if you mention the DANGERS of mums and CHILDREN having to walk on the road in a busy area, then they'd most certainly look into it.

Good luck.

Normally there are Tenant and Residents meetings every month in the area, so might be worth a visit.

Rachel xxx

Lori007

Where I live there is a Infant School at the end of the road - parents are always double parking and really don't care. I phoned the school once since it took me 20 minutes to get off the estate since people were coming in off the main road, there was only access for one line of traffic and people were trying to get out at same time - everything just came to a halt until somebody realised they would have to give way and let people out - the access road leads straight onto a busy road and roundabout. The school advised they are always asking parents to park sensibly but nobody takes any notice and advised phoning the police and asking them to patrol for a while (I would have thought the police have better things to do). They also have their own carpark but close it at end of school since parents were driving into it at such speed it became dangerous so they now lock the gates to stop this. Very annoying but seems little or nothing can be done. Unfortunately there is also an OAP Home at the end of the estate and this problem has even affected the ambulances but I was told when an ambulance driver moaned at one of the Mums she told him where to go - nice huh!

dizziblonde

And when schools/nurseries send a letter out requesting parents to park in certain areas to avoid this... they get gobfulls of abuse (I had about 10 minutes of shouting from a parent in my class when the head at my old school sent a "walk to school" week letter). School parking is a nightmare of inconsideration, road rage, pushchair rage, microscooter rage and everything else.

Think I've only ever seen one local school that sorted things well - they have a gate from the school field at the back, directly onto the local Tesco carpark and parents park in there and go through the gate that's locked during school hours. Tesco get the passing trade and "oh I'll just nip in for a bottle of milk... and coming out with a trolleyfull", school get the parking problems sorted, and the local residents get.... well, out of their drives.

biscit

Reasonable walking distances seem to have reduced in recent years. People in my old village were campaigning for a bus to take kids a 2 minute trip from the top of a road at one side of the village to the school at the other. It's only a ten minute walk!

Twenty minutes, twice a day is too much for some people.

pulliptears

My 13 year old DD had an accident some time ago that left her with a paralysed left arm. As she is to avoid knocking it etc she comes out of school 5 minutes early and I collect her from the disabled pick up zone of the high school grounds. This evening I was stopped from turning into school property by a PCSO and given the Spanish Inquisition over where I was heading and why. I explained to her DD had a disability and the school had told us to collect her from there. Fine, she let us on.

To my utter amazement as I was leaving the school PCSo and colleague were happily walking down the road blissfully ignoring the car that had not only parked half on the pavement, but on a blind bend and zig zag lines.

Morglin

burtons wrote: »

Where my daughter goes to nursery it's a nightmare to park due to only having 5 spaces to park and the rest of the road has double yellow lines. Now if you go over town and park it only takes 5 minutes to walk to the nursery but some of the parents won't do this and will park up on the pavement so people has got to walk on the road. Now the other day it was pouring down with rain and this women had a small child walking and she also had a pushchair so as there was cars parked on the pavement she had to walk on the road so everytime a car came she had to stop to let the car past which made me mad as the driver could have stopped.
Now i would like to know if i sent the nursery a letter about the people parking on the pavement could they do anything about it as it's safety for the children.

No, but I wish residents could do more about parents of nursery and school age kids just parking everywhere - pavements, grass verges, driveways.:mad::mad:

Pavement parking is actually a no-no in most parts of London London (and is due to be through the land soon), but no one ever enforces it at school times.

Lin