Parking fine while picking up children

whatmichaelsays

I blame the supermarkets.

Parent & Child spaces have created a sense of entitlement to a parking space outside the front door of wherever parents are visiting.

Of course, the irony in all this is that you constantly see parents demanding speed cameras and extra patrols.

Recently, our local paper was full of letters demanding that the council and/or police "do something" after a child was hit outside a primary school. A fortnight later, the same paper was full of letters complaining about parking enforcement outside the very same school. It seems that the "something" they wanted doing was anything that didn't affect them.

fivetide

whatmichaelsays wrote: »

I blame the supermarkets.

Parent & Child spaces have created a sense of entitlement to a parking space outside the front door of wherever parents are visiting.

Of course, the irony in all this is that you constantly see parents demanding speed cameras and extra patrols.

Recently, our local paper was full of letters demanding that the council and/or police "do something" after a child was hit outside a primary school. A fortnight later, the same paper was full of letters complaining about parking enforcement outside the very same school. It seems that the "something" they wanted doing was anything that didn't affect them.

Don't see it as supermarkets at all. What you've just described is society generally where everyone is due something for nothing.

Look at any sink estate. Residents will blame the council for not looking after the place but it isn't the council that have gardens full of shopping trollies etc.

It is a simple fact of people with too many rights and not enough responsibilities.

LandyAndy

apesxx wrote: »

I actually prefer to park a bit further away from school and walk the rest of the way. I find it much quicker than parking right outside the school as it is horrendous to get out.

They ended up having to start police patrols outside one of the schools near me as a child was knocked down due to people like the OP who park on yellow lines, block the pavement or park on the zig zags because little Johnny can't possible walk more than 5 steps to the school gates.

I would hope the parking ticket will stand and that you don't get out of it and it may make you think about parking more considerately in the future.

And 4 year old children are a lot tougher than you think. Even if it's a bit cold a coat, hat and gloves are enough. My 4 year old goes to a school where they have to wear shorts all year round and he's still managing to survive and hasn't complained once that he's cold!

It isn't the children who are incapable of walking.

Foxy-Stoat_3

Scrootum

Tilt wrote: »

And there's me thinking I was the only one who considered this to be a consumer help site. Thanks Spacey!

Is parking on a yellow line now considered consumption?

Geodark

I have to say that the times my 7 year old son gets driven to school are few and far between, only if I need to drop him off and head straight to work, but parking at and around his school is really good. There are plenty of spaces out the front and in the streets around. But there is a high school just around the corner to ours and on a morning getting out of our street can be a nightmare - people park on double yellows, park on bends, double park etc so you cant see out - and these are for kids 13 years and older. It's the same on a night when the parents pick them up. I don't have too much of a problem with people picking their kids up - but I do have a problem with them not parking properly. The streets around ours are fairly empty at that time of day, so there is no reason they can't park up and walk a couple of minutes rather than park dodgy.

BeenThroughItAll

rachhh wrote: »

One has to question the wisdom of anyone taking legal GUIDANCE from someone who is not even able to spell the word guidance...

May I just point out the superfluous apostrophe in your signature?

"GHD's" should = 'GHDs'.

27col

BeenThroughItAll wrote: »

May I just point out the superfluous apostrophe in your signature?

"GHD's" should = 'GHDs'.

Punctuation advice on this site is completely wasted, I fear. You have only to look at the number of people who do not know the difference between "there" and "their". Or, if they do, choose to ignore it.

Voyager2002

joey298487 wrote: »

Hello,

Can i ask for a bit of advice.

My son goes to a school where there is very little car parking spaces.

i went to pick him up to day and there were no parking spaces. Rather than let my four year old walk miles in the cold ( as it was freezing today) i parked for 9 min on single yellow lines causing no obstructions.

i got a ticket. When i came back there were packs of parking people nailing people on the school run.

do i have any grounds of appeal or am i screwed any help would be much appricated.

thanks

Firstly, by parking illegally you were putting other people's children at risk.

Secondly, the walk to school would actually make your child (and you) more healthy, better able to withstand the cold.

Thirdly, a warm winter coat would have cost less than the fine, and less than you waste on petrol driving to and from school.

I hope that this fine will come as a wake-up call and persuade you to change your ways.

facade

fivetide wrote: »

Look at any sink estate. Residents will blame the council for not looking after the place but it isn't the council that have gardens full of shopping trollies etc.

It is a simple fact of people with too many rights and not enough responsibilities.

I have a vivid recollection of a local news interview with such a resident.

It went like this:

"Three weeks we've been telling The Council about the broken latch on our garden gate. Our babby keeps running out into the street. One day he will get run over, and it will be The Council's fault" :eek: