Parking spaces (1 Viewer)

[Badknee]

We have a school behind us and it's a bloody nightmare. Half term so peace reigns for a week or so.

 

[chaser]

@GJH My Local Council (Havering) has just started using powers under the Public Space Protection Order to fine parents up to £1,000 for dangerous parking whilst dropping off children at school. All previous attempts at stopping this have failed; therefore this is being trialled at three pilot schools in the area. That should stop 'em!

This is all very well , but just where are parents supposed to park to take the kids to school, ok if they are only a couple of hundred yards away but what if they are miles away.

 

[Gromett]

We have that behaviour here, including people using our drive. Pure selfish ignorance.

Thinking about the general point, many of the cars we see badly parked are little "city" cars. It appears that some drivers simply make no effort to park parallel to the lines so long as they can get out of their own doors easily.

I would be tempted to get one of those rising bollard thingies. Have it linked to the house alarm. As soon as someone is on the drive take the dog for a walk and click the alarm fob as you leave the house. Bollard rises blocking them in and you are gone for an hour. Cause them some inconvenience...

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[GJH]

@GJH My Local Council (Havering) has just started using powers under the Public Space Protection Order to fine parents up to £1,000 for dangerous parking whilst dropping off children at school. All previous attempts at stopping this have failed; therefore this is being trialled at three pilot schools in the area. That should stop 'em!

Interesting. Hope it works

This is all very well , but just where are parents supposed to park to take the kids to school, ok if they are only a couple of hundred yards away but what if they are miles away.

Get the bus, walk or cycle like my brother and I did when we attended a school 2 miles away.

Many of the car journeys are the fault of parental choice. It's high time we got rid of parental choice and went back to schools serving their local communities - with parents actually putting some effort into making schools better, rather than just scrabbling over one another to support their "me first" attitudes.

I would be tempted to get one of those rising bollard thingies. Have it linked to the house alarm. As soon as someone is on the drive take the dog for a walk and click the alarm fob as you leave the house. Bollard rises blocking them in and you are gone for an hour. Cause them some inconvenience...

Jill was telling me the other day of someone posting on a sewing forum she uses. Apparently they suffer regularly from people parking on their drive. One day they were due to have the drive graveled but somebody left their car on the drive before the gravel was delivered. The poster had the gravel dropped behind the car, blocking it in. Apparently it took then 2 days to shift the gravel before they could get their car out

 

[PeteH]

That should stop 'em!

You think?. Being illegal hasn't stopped the blighters texting at the wheel!.

Pete

 

[tonyidle]

Sorry your wrong.... reversing involves that any cars behind you HAVE to stop and wait for you to reverse..... Reversing out again just means picking a space coming along and then out, also easier to back out because of the angle to the road, as per St. Tropez.

If the chevrons are angled towards approaching vehicles then yes - it would be foolish / impossible to reverse in.

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[GWAYGWAY]

But that leads on to yet another moan, why are parking charges so high, land rent can't surely go up by the same amount some companies charge, problem is the bosses of such companies have so much money they then go out and buy huge 4x4 vehicles that do not fit in the spaces they themselves provide.

Boss of NCP has one of the biggest yachts ( small ship not dinghy) in the world and it cost a million pounds a metre. So he does OK then.

 

[PeteH]

Boss of NCP has one of the biggest yachts ( small ship not dinghy) in the world and it cost a million pounds a metre. So he does OK then.

I thought Piracy was still a hanging offence?

Pete

 

[ianandkath]

We have that behaviour here, including people using our drive. Pure selfish ignorance.

put a very very small sign up and then clamp them, £250 fee, bet they don't park on your drive again

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[pappajohn]

fine parents up to £1,000 for dangerous parking whilst dropping off children at school.

Thats the same fine as no MOT or a dog crapping in the local park.....but the average fine is around £50 at best..

Stated max fines are a joke and are just that....maximum permitted by law but never applied.