Dangerous Parking on School Run

There’s loads of chew in our village around speeding and bad parking. The local primary is often listed as a reason why both need to be stopped.

Having walked past with the dog occasionally at 8:30 I’d say a lot of the offenders are the entitled doyles dropping their offspring off at the school.
 
People will always have a go at parents that drop their kids off at school in the car because they see it as a single event. Reality is that the school run is often a part of a commute. I'm fortunate enough that I live near our kids school and I work from home so I can walk them to school and get back in time to start work at 9. Not everyone is in that situation and the they might have drop off at 8:40 and then have to be in an office by 9:00 so the 15 min walk each way isn't feasible because the walk back home is the problem.

Obviously, there are some lazy people that will not walk anywhere but in my experience the majority of people I speak to that drop their kids off at school in the car are not heading straight home afterwards but going on to work or dropping another kid at nursery etc.

Not everyone can afford to pay for breakfast club so kids are in school earlier at a time when the walk could be done.

Also, I'm not excusing bad parking or driving. People should still be able to obey the rules. I'm just giving a reason why walking to school is not always an option, even for people that live close.
 
Norman_Conquest said:
This a problem all over and I'm glad to see Middlesbrough are tackling it.

It has come to the point where it is not worth trying to leave our estate 30 mins before and 15 minutes after Teesville Junior School finishes.
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my daughter goes there. The people that park on the corner of lime road and the road which runs alongside the school are reckless and braindead. The zig zag parkers are a joke too i actually think they dont know what they mean. Every morning there is a car parked on the low kerb for crossing the road, ive said to the wife for years it will take a kid to be run over before they do anything
 
Council should assign 2 or 3 traffic wardens on that road during drop off and pick up times, it'll soon stop
 
I do some support for a primary school and it’s been a problem since I started 26 years ago. When enforcement fine them they kick off because they think the school gets money from this ( they don’t) it’s a problem/nightmare at every school and I shudder to think what the consequence could be. If there’s a solution we haven’t found it in 26 years. A parent parking in a nearby street once blocked a hearse (occupied) in and wouldn’t move until little Jimmy had been dropped off .
 
DimisLegCramps said:
my daughter goes there. The people that park on the corner of lime road and the road which runs alongside the school are reckless and braindead. The zig zag parkers are a joke too i actually think they dont know what they mean. Every morning there is a car parked on the low kerb for crossing the road, ive said to the wife for years it will take a kid to be run over before they do anything
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My son wrote a letter to the school and the headmistress dismissed it saying it wasn't her problem. :mad:

There is a woman in a white Range Rover and two days on the trot she pulled out from her parking space (on the zig zags) and blocked the road. There were cars parked on either side and neither of us could pass. I just sat there until she reversed back into the spot she came from.

Some years back they put in a parking bay on Normanby Rd for the school pick-ups and it is always empty. God forbid their little darling has got to walk 100 metres.

It is the parents/grandparents who get there an hour before the school kicks out that get me - all so they can get a good spot.
 
Acklam_Lad said:
Take your life in your own hands around Acklam Whin. They either drive up and down the pavements, blindly open doors as your walking past or worst of all try and run you down on the crossing near st clares

Lost count of the near misses
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I live in this same area, Acklam Whin, Kader and the Catholic Junior school I now give a miss around 3pm when out walking as you get verbal abuse for walking on a footpath from parents who park on footpaths and kids can’t open the door because your in the way. Hall Drive on a Sunday Morning is exactly the same, if the council want to reduce the deficit get down there they will make a fortune
 
AcklamAngel said:
I live in this same area, Acklam Whin, Kader and the Catholic Junior school I now give a miss around 3pm when out walking as you get verbal abuse for walking on a footpath from parents who park on footpaths and kids can’t open the door because your in the way. Hall Drive on a Sunday Morning is exactly the same, if the council want to reduce the deficit get down there they will make a fortune
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That's not a bad shout on a money making idea.
 
Nano said:
Reality is that the school run is often a part of a commute. I'm fortunate enough that I live near our kids school and I work from home so I can walk them to school and get back in time to start work at 9. Not everyone is in that situation and the they might have drop off at 8:40 and then have to be in an office by 9:00
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I didn't realise so many people went to work in pyjamas, dressing gowns and gym wear.
 
atypical_boro said:
In fairness lots of people work from home. I am often in tracky bottoms at the school gate.

Mind you, I don't drive and the school is 200 yards away so I'm not part of the problem.
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Which school if you don't mind me asking? Not judging btw.......😉
 
Our old house was out on a limb school wise - 15 min walk to DR.

Don't think the parking at schools in the Heatons is as bad as a lot in Stockport - generally a handful of knobheads.
 
h_m_boro said:
Our old house was out on a limb school wise - 15 min walk to DR.

Don't think the parking at schools in the Heatons is as bad as a lot in Stockport - generally a handful of knobheads.
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Ah ok. I thought you used to live on another road clearly.

Anyway, it’s fine at our school as there is literally nowhere to park so everyone just walks. But it’s quite over subscribed and everyone who gets in tends to live very closeby.

I can imagine its worse at DR which has a much bigger catchment?
 
atypical_boro said:
Ah ok. I thought you used to live on another road clearly.

Anyway, it’s fine at our school as there is literally nowhere to park so everyone just walks. But it’s quite over subscribed and everyone who gets in tends to live very closeby.

I can imagine its worse at DR which has a much bigger catchment?
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Daughter was at DR and it wasn't that bad - being on a main road actually helps.

Son is at St Winnie's and again it's not that bad - just a handful of parents who park half on the road / half on the path, close to school and it causes a bottleneck. Same knobheads each day. SUVs......🙄🙄
 
Built up areas that can't accommodate modern day life. Maybe the council could look into proper solutions rather than putting a warden on for a day or two.
 
Norman_Conquest said:
This a problem all over and I'm glad to see Middlesbrough are tackling it.

It has come to the point where it is not worth trying to leave our estate 30 mins before and 15 minutes after Teesville Junior School finishes.
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But are they? I was walking today near marton shops and the streets behind the school. It was mental. Parking over all lines, in front of other peoples drives, zebra crossings etc. At the junction leaving the road onto Stokesley Road from marton shops, was like Cairo, horns blasting and just crazy boloks.. There was zero regard for people living there at all. I bet most of them could walk the 500m instead
 
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