Unnecessary congestion

Or give the kids their legs back

We lived in Worksop on the Doncaster side, used to walk to school which was the other side of town approx 3 miles although there was a bus that went upto our school, the other thing you didn't see much of then was overweight children, far more active playing outside than kids do today.

The village that I live in as a school and when it is pickup or drop of time there is cars down one side of the road for approx 1/4 of a mile, you cannot get two cars by each other at school time, as I said in another thread it's dangerous for not only the kids that walk but everyone using that road however, asked the police to do something and they say they can't although the cars are causing an obstruction.

MD, it's a different world now, back in the day life was less complicated, less people, less cars, less stress. If a parent wants to drop their children at the school gates they have their reasons, what you or I did 30/40+ years ago means nothing as lives & the world are truly different.

I take two of my g/children too school almost every day and i park on a car park by Tesco.The problem is most of the parents park as near too the school as they can get on the public roads and for half an hour its near gridlock.Many are comeing less than half a mile but thats how it is.As Rocky says its a different world now and until they are at high school mums,dads and grandparents will see them safely there and back.

peter.

No problem with parents taken children to school but why on earth do they need to park as near the school gates as possible, like you Peter why not use some common sense and park a little way away everybody would be safer and they wouldn't cause gridlock. This tends to happen at most schools and will continue until someone does something about it or God forbid a child gets killed or maimed, at that point the parents will be up in arms saying it isn't safe.

The parents are constantly reminded not too bring their cars into the school carpark but they insist on doing so the school sometimes puts a guy on the gate too turn them back.We have the same prob as you MD cars all along one side of a road and cars still trying to go both ways

peter.

Did you know Peter that the police cannot prosecute them for obstruction unless they actually catch them parking their car, or so the local council tell me. Best about our village is there are numerous dead end roads around the school but they being selfish,idle and not a lot of common sense park along this one road, now they have put 20 mph signs up, as if that will stop a child walking between cars and possibly getting injured.

Have to agree its ridiculous, our village also has a primary and secondary school combined with nearly 2000 pupils. Its 'B' road is for a good half mile reduced to one way traffic and the official double decker / coaches have great difficulty negotiating the road.

I can understand the younger children need looking after until they feel safe and competent with nearby traffic, but teens should be encouraged to walk and it would also help some parents to walk looking at the size of them.

I think that the provision of safe transport to schools was abandoned in the interest of saving money. The problem may be that we have only pushed a very visible expense from one area to another where it is hidden or impossible to calculate. Ignoring the time taken by multiple guardians to deliver their children to school, I think they will have all done so at greater collective expense than that of a few buses. The knock-on effect is to also cause considerable congestion and more hidden cost to others which may not have created a net saving at all.

See "Invisible" thread as well