School run drivers.

[chrisch]

Originally Posted by Ian@1904

Our children are growing up physically unfit

Ahhh. I'm lovin' it.....

Chris

[turbanator]

Originally Posted by Ian@1904

When I were a lad, hundreds of us cycled to school, about 2 miles in my case. At my daughters college about 5 students cycle in to college. Did we have accidents, well yes once or twice, nothing too major-but we learnt from the experience.

Yes I agree with you, it IS more dangerous now.
Why? More cars outside schools, the kids are relatively safe for most of the journey.
Where is all the congestion? Outside the school where you have people parking all over so there's no place to cross safely, driving off while looking over their shoulder waving goodbye, stressy because they can't find a place so that the passenger door opens into the school gate not to mention opening roadside doors as soon as the pull up, a hazard to anyone actually cycling by them, fair play to any car driver that wants to take their door off.

[turbanator]

Originally Posted by chrisch

At least you could have a fag on the bus...

Not something I'd boast about in this day and age

[calski]

Turb, I totally feel your pain.

Our flat is on an estate and overlooks the local primary school. In the mornings, if I decide to go to the office late and leave at post 8.20, I have to negotiate a maze of illegally parked 4x4s and cars. The school has like a "drive through" bit but rather than sit and queue to use that, they will park ON THE F***ING roundabout and block everyone else in!

Just like the school you describe, it's mainly lazy estate residents who can't be fagged to walk the mile or so from one side to the other...

Anyway, good luck and safe driving!

calski

[Wacker]

I wonder what persentage of accidents school kids are involved in are caused by parents on the shchool run?
If we could get this infomation I'm sure it would be easy to ban the vast majourity of lazzy bastards from causing the trouble.
Let the little darllings use theire £100 NIKE for the perpose they were designed for Walking/running ETC.

[SoggyFox]

I sympathise totaly. My office is directly opposite a school, we have a nice big carpark/yard for our vehicles and recently they painted double yellow lines down the road, useful you'd think.

Now heres what happens.

They park now with 2 wheels on the pavement, cos thats what double yellows means, now the women with kids and pushchairs moan like fuck about not being able to get along the road (and its their mates that are doing it).

We've had a number of instances of them using our carpark for their convenience, it soon stop when we left a 8 wheel truck across the entrance for 3 hours and claimed it was broken and couldn't be moved, lots of tears and shouting and then we reminded them it was private property.

If you pull out of the yard you take your life into your hands, the only way to see is pull into the middle of the road.

And my biggest grump was being 'beeped' while walking along the pavement to the shop cos the lady in the merc was trying to park on the pavement, i had to count to ten and walk on.

I've complained a number of times to the local and county councils but they dopn't seem to want to do anything.

[chrisch]

Originally Posted by SoggyFox

I've complained a number of times to the local and county councils but they dopn't seem to want to do anything.

Arseholes are voters too......

Chris

[MATTBIN]

Blimey
talk about Grump Old Men

Reckon you lot need a dive

Matt

ps
my kids always walked to school, but my Mrs dives it, mind you she works there so parks inside the gates.

[Adrian Kelland]

Originally Posted by MATTBIN

Blimey
talk about Grump Old Men

Reckon you lot need a dive

Matt

ps
my kids always walked to school, but my Mrs dives it, mind you she works there so parks inside the gates.

Taking it a bit far there

[triplefin]

At one school I know some of the parents got so cross about the dangerous/illegal parking outside the school that they said they would take photos of people parking dangerously/illegally outside the school and these would be posted and copies sent to the council. The school issued this in its newsletter. What happened after that I dont know. Maybe the threat of doing it was enough to deter people even if it was just for a while.