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Post by Big Blue on Mar 9, 2022 9:10:08 GMT
If you commute by car at a certain time ion the day no doubt the heavy traffic is in some part due to the school run. My neighbour a few doors up (ie closer to the school) has children at the same schools my two girls attend. This morning she reversed out of her driveway at the same time as we walked out of ours, she with kids in the car. Having dropped the children at school, including a bit of small talk, a goodbye wave at the 1st floor window to T5, I arrived back at home as she also turned the corner to her driveway.
I accept that not everyone lives a walk away from school but if you're lucky enough to why the fuck wouldn't you? The situation is made all the more ludicrous by the fact that our school is in a Safe Street, meaning no car (except residents of that street that have registered their car with the Borough) can drive along it during school start time and again at school end time meaning she and her kids are going through the rigmarole of packing themselves in to the car to drive half way, find a space to park, unpack themselves and walk the other half, which is the uphill section!
What goes through people's minds?
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Post by Martin on Mar 9, 2022 9:18:19 GMT
Sheer laziness.
I have to drive past a school to get to the main road and it's horrendous if I'm trying to get past at either end of the school day. It's not just the amount of cars, it's the total lack of consideration from where they park / abandon their cars to stopping you getting past because they're queuing opposite a parked car and don't want to give an inch.
My 16yr old walks to school and always has. Lindsay walks to/from nursery when she's working from home (15mins each way at pace), but she does drive on the day she's in the office, because she passes it on the way and the timings wouldn't work otherwise.
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Post by PetrolEd on Mar 9, 2022 9:23:35 GMT
Does she not know fuel is £1.70 a litre? Thats enough to get me to walk
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2022 9:25:26 GMT
What passes for 'logic', have a car - use a car. Logically we use our plates for short journeys which reduces traffic, pollution and stress. One of the residents used to drive a mile down the road for a newspaper but gave it up and walked. He said he felt daft putting more stress on the engine when walking actually did him some good. Me, I just stopped buying snooze papers yonks ago and only do so once a week for the neighbour. She does like her 'Express' on occasion.
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Post by Blarno on Mar 9, 2022 9:35:49 GMT
I have to drop Lottie at breakfast club every morning. Thankfully, it's at 7.30 and on my way to work, so no traffic and no problems parking. The issue comes when dropping her in at normal time. Then all hell breaks loose. Lottie's scool and the Catholic school are right next to each other, but set back from the road and accessible via either a small footpath or a cul de sac. Cue every man and his posh roader fighting to park as close as humanly possible to the school gates without violating the zig-zag markings, meaning they park on both sides of the road, on the pavement, close to junctions and sometimes across driveways.
Guess what's 200 yards down the road from both schools? A big supermarket car park with plenty of space for parents from both schools, and the high school that's also in the same block. But no, they have to park their Kuga or Disco Sport within farting distance of the school because woe betide little Jayden, Blayden or Iron Mayden having to use their fucking legs.
I hate people, I really do.
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Post by chipbutty on Mar 9, 2022 9:55:52 GMT
What's worse is people who drive to the gym when they live 300 metres from said gym.
I routinely see two neighbours cars in the gym car park - it's beyond mental.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Mar 9, 2022 10:15:59 GMT
To be honest, and widening the conversation, I'd ban all private, Islamic, single sex, Jewish, Catholic. fee paying schools and make all kids go to one, secular school, no more than a mile and half from their house, where they can safely walk or cycle. I'd end the system of educational apartheid we have in this country, be like Finland, have a better integrated population, healthier kids, less pollution and congestion, and better opportunities for all.
Loading kids into cars and carting them all over the towns and cities is madness.
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Post by Big Blue on Mar 9, 2022 11:13:18 GMT
Schools should be secular. There's a difference between the vicar / priest / rabbi/ imam etc. telling you about religion in a place of worship and a school telling you that 2+2 must be 4 and then there is only one true religion. T1 and T3 went to a CofE school: neither gives a thought to religion now.
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Post by Blarno on Mar 9, 2022 11:20:22 GMT
I was explainging to Lottie the other day how I was walking to and from school on my own at her age (9), from a greater distance. The worst part is the school itself bans any kids younger than Year 5 from entering/exiting alone.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Mar 9, 2022 11:26:41 GMT
It does seem made now that when I started school at 5, my mum walked me along (it was about a mile and half) for the first few days and then I just went myself after that.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2022 11:27:48 GMT
Myself and sibles walked, bussed and trained to school etc all the time. Not once got driven anywhere. You want to go somewhere? Fine, what time will you be back? was the most we got.
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Post by Roadsterstu on Mar 10, 2022 19:59:02 GMT
I have numerous reports at work about school parking. It is a massive pain in the arse. And school run mums are horrific drivers, too! |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2022 22:40:40 GMT
They spend all their time looking at the back seats and screaming at the kids to cluck the shut up etc. Looking out of the windoze seems to be an option they do not want to take.
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Post by Grampa on Apr 8, 2022 21:55:42 GMT
Door to door including parking takes pretty much the same time walking or going in the car for us when we’re on grandkids duty. And if there’s reason to take the car eg going somewhere straight afterwards, it’s much easier to park 500 yards away than trying to find somewhere closer to park. I’ve seen parents waiting in the school car park (which is nowhere near large enough) 45 mins before the end of school - presumably just so they can park close!
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Post by Big Blue on Jun 30, 2022 16:43:35 GMT
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Post by racingteatray on Jul 3, 2022 15:44:32 GMT
Bananas. All of it. Says the man without kids.
This morning I walked the circa 5 miles from Aldeburgh back to Snape along the Sailors Path and at one point the thought did cross my mind as to how very different the world would be if suddenly we all had to walk everywhere.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2022 16:31:38 GMT
Quieter for one thing.....
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