Parking fine while picking up children

londonTiger

my brother is a black cab driver. He started cabbing last year. Prior to that he drove a banged up MPV. He never dropped off his kids in his MPV. But since he started cabbing he always drops them off in his black cab.

So I have personal experience of someone who just drops them off and collects by car for prestige when they could easily just walk.

I think it's annoying when parents pick up and drop off kids in the school run when they dont live that far away. It's inconsiderate to local trade where business vehicles are delayed just before the 5pm cut off to make their deliveries.

I think a lot of councils have installed CCTV footage now to monitor and issue fines straight away when someone parks on hot spots.

It doesn't have to be just traffic wardens they can just issue fines remotely.

dacouch

londonTiger wrote: »

my brother is a black cab driver. He started cabbing last year. Prior to that he drove a banged up MPV. He never dropped off his kids in his MPV. But since he started cabbing he always drops them off in his black cab.

So I have personal experience of someone who just drops them off and collects by car for prestige when they could easily just walk.

I think it's annoying when parents pick up and drop off kids in the school run when they dont live that far away. It's inconsiderate to local trade where business vehicles are delayed just before the 5pm cut off to make their deliveries.

I think a lot of councils have installed CCTV footage now to monitor and issue fines straight away when someone parks on hot spots.

It doesn't have to be just traffic wardens they can just issue fines remotely.

A friend lives near a private school in Berkshire, they installed a helipad for the benefit of some parents who wanted to drop their children off by helicopter which is apparantly fairly busy. What's even more posh than doing the school run in a helicopter not doing the school run in a helicopter but sending your staff instead.

iammumtoone

My son and I walk to the school and have done since he was four when he started. On one occasion we nearly got run over on the pavement, the person driving actually had the cheek to look at me like I was in the wrong! Due to the narrow roads cars park up on the pavements where some of us are trying to walk!

More recently I watched a fire engine try to get down the road at school time - it couldn't the cars had not left enough space for it.

I just wish more tickets would be issued at my sons school. The school have tried and started to put out signs on the pavement next to the yellow lines reading "parking here could endanger a childs life" Parents just parked next them

poppasmurf_bewdley

quidsy wrote: »

Leave 5 mins earlier tomorrow to get a premuim spot.

At Bewdley High School, they start queuing at least an hour before school ends to get near the gate so their little darlings don't have to walk too far. Some even bring flasks of hot something or other to drink whilst others bring books.

forgotmyname

facade wrote: »

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:

Reminds me of an old Les Dawson sketch. Dressed as the old women. Moaning the Council have not been around to flush the toilet yet.

andygb

I live in a largeish village with a primary school, and most of the children live in the village - not more than half a mile from the school.
However, at around 2.30 - 3.00 the great car stampede starts, with all the "yummy mummys" headed off down to park as close to the school as possible.
This results in illegal parking all over the place - pavement parking, parking across people's drives, double yellow lines.
We used to walk to school (about two miles) right from infants school - what is wrong with folks nowadays?

photome

poppasmurf_bewdley wrote: »

At Bewdley High School, they start queuing at least an hour before school ends to get near the gate so their little darlings don't have to walk too far. Some even bring flasks of hot something or other to drink whilst others bring books.

I posted the same a few posts ago but quidsy didn't like it.
no idea why

System

I live in a rural area. The kids at our school would rather walk than get picked up or dropped off in a 4x4, its considered as the farm runaround. Strangely they don't mind if they get picked up by tractor if mum/dad are driving past with it at that time

John1993_2

facade wrote: »

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:

Heading off topic I know, but...

The first flat I bought in London was on a brand new development. I did not realise at the time but half of it (the larger properties, interestingly) were social housing. On day 1, the whole place was clean, freshly made, and generally very pleasant.

A year later, and the two sections were as different as night and day. The private half was still immaculate, whereas the council half was just awful. Smashed windows, mattresses in gardens, rubbish strewn everywhere, half dismantled cars leaking oil onto the streets, and one family had even decided to gain a little privacy in ther front garden by stealing tube seats and sellotaping them to their railings.

"The council" had not done any of this, and actually made efforts to keep things nice; it was the residents.

There is a new development planned for where I live now, and, again, people are agitating for social housing to be included. I'll be lobbying strongly for this not to be allowed.

Norman_Castle

poppasmurf_bewdley wrote: »

At Bewdley High School, they start queuing at least an hour before school ends to get near the gate so their little darlings don't have to walk too far. Some even bring flasks of hot something or other to drink whilst others bring books.

If they're too far from the school entrance the children will struggle to hear their car horn which is being pressed repeatedly.