Are police no waiting cones legal?

mikey72

Bear in mind all the parents can appeal on Monday as well though.

wba31

I stayed at a cottage in a village in Scotland 2 years ago. The cottage was up a single track lane, but oh no, opposite a school entrance... To my shock on the Monday morning, not one car appeared, all parents walked their children to school, some of them may have had to walk 0.6 miles from the far end of the village to reach the school... what a bunch of weirdos! taking the car would have saved at least 5 minutes!!!

Ghostrider

photome wrote: »

In that case according to the traffic act posted it looks like grounds for an appeal...good luck

On what grounds can they appeal?

I can't see it personally.

Obukit

It's worth remembering that unlike council tickets there are no "appeals" for police tickets. You can informally speak to the police and see if they'll cancel it, or you go to magistrates court.

As the tickets are only £30 unless the police agree to cancel the ticket it's normally pragmatic to pay it, unless your time is worth so little that wasting half a day at court is worth saving £30.

mikey72

wba31 wrote: »

I stayed at a cottage in a village in Scotland 2 years ago. The cottage was up a single track lane, but oh no, opposite a school entrance... To my shock on the Monday morning, not one car appeared, all parents walked their children to school, some of them may have had to walk 0.6 miles from the far end of the village to reach the school... what a bunch of weirdos! taking the car would have saved at least 5 minutes!!!

Not a real village then, just a town school. Our village probably has the closest kids half a mile away. Wouldn't really fancy walking the 10 miles from the next villages that feed in at the age of 5 though. Mind you, when I was a lad, I was happy to walk 10 miles on broken glass........

cyclonebri1

verityboo wrote: »

An alternative view is that most of the locals around where my daughters school is moved in after the school was built (the houses were built after the school), and yet are surprised when parents want to drop their children off. What did they think would happen morning and afternoon? (perhaps people moving to live near a school should take an IQ test?). It doesn't help that they put double yellow lines down the only safe straight section of road with no joining driveways.

Combined with that is the councils policy of allocating schools to the people living furthest away. Its a 5 mile trip to drop my daughter off, and there is no public transport alternative, but according to the locals nimby's we should walk? (Its a further 5 miles for me to get to work)

I don't see it that way at all, I simply expect mum or dad, bless 'em, to abide by the same rules of the road re parking and obstruction etc as everyone else, even at school run time, , and around here they don't, it's a free for all.

The issue is a fairly new 1, now that most are 2 (or more) car families this wasn't true 20 years ago but the schools and the roads are still the same:o

cootuk

Aren't these now issued by local councils under a Temporary Traffic Regulation Order (TTRO) where it has legal status, or an ad-hoc basis where there is no legal status, more a request.

Norman_Castle

perhaps people moving to live near a school should take an IQ test?

If you live near a school you will see the same school run parents causing endless problems for themselves and every other road user every school day on otherwise quiet roads. How intelligent is that? . I've done the school run. Parking a short distance away and walking is much easier for everyone.
Try explaining that to a parent who is glued to their driving seat.

sharpy2010

paddedjohn wrote: »

Near me there is a new build school just opened, the school is at the end of a once quietish road that is unmarked by any yellow lines whatsoever but since the school opened the traffic has been very busy due to parents wanting to get as close to the school as possible so the police heve been in attendance guiding traffic and have placed no waiting cones either side of the road about 40-50feet from the school gates but outside people's houses. They have issued tickets to at least 6 cars that have been parked here and one is to a friend of mine.My question is, are these cones legally enforcable or are the police acting outside their powers.

There is always someone trying to circumvent the rules. This is the big problem with society at the moment, the attitude of "I'll do what I want".

The Police put down cones to keep the children safe, and instead of respecting the cones, you/your friend is querying "are they legal? are they allowed to do this? can i get out of paying?".

This shows a complete lack of respect for the law, and for the childrens safety.

mikey72

sharpy2010 wrote: »

There is always someone trying to circumvent the rules. This is the big problem with society at the moment, the attitude of "I'll do what I want".

The Police put down cones to keep the children safe, and instead of respecting the cones, you/your friend is querying "are they legal? are they allowed to do this? can i get out of paying?".

This shows a complete lack of respect for the law, and for the childrens safety.

It's more likely the residents kept complaining about the parents cars, and wanted the police to do something about them parking there. So they did.