Car related ranting

[lizziec]

A couple of rants here which need to be got out of my system. Firstly about the pillock in a yellow (bronze?) Honda with the registration number Y106 BKJ who blocked me in last night.



Mine is the little red clio in the middle. The gap between the enormous Ford and the Honda was not enough for me to get out. I was stuck there for ages and I was supposed to be going out. Thank goodness I didn't have to be somewhere at a set time.

Grr! So angry!

The other victim(s) of my wrath are the parents of Blean Primary School children. You would think that the little darlings cannot walk given the proximity to the school the parents feel they have to park. The ones that park at the Sports Ground car park are bad enough, and the ones that park at Nickle Court are even worse (this is the closest PW court to the school) but the ones that feel they have to drive right up to the Crab and Winkle way and the gates of the now closed old car park? Sickening.

Even worse are the ones on the Whitstable Road causing traffic to go single file at dropping off and picking up time (thus causing a major problem on those occasions I have seen an ambulance, police car or fire engine trying to get past). The bigger problem of this is that often the parents and children are crossing the road from behind cars, actually...no, not cars. Giant 4x4s. This may be safe for the poor ikkle children who cannot walk more than 50yards from the entrance of their school but for those of us who have to cross it makes it much more dangerous. The two times a day I have to cross that road with Becky and Paul are terrifying.

Those parents who feel the need to park so close piss me off so much.

GRRR!

Comments

[red-pill.livejournal.com]

/me hands trapper alice

do me proud!

[no1typo.livejournal.com]

i'd have left a meassage on his windscreenor kncked on every door in teh street till i found out whose car it was and got them to move it

[skeldof.livejournal.com]

Surely the issue with the big cars isn't really the fault of the parents, more the muppets who decided it'd be a good idea to get rid of the carpark they used?

[trappermcintyre.livejournal.com]

Actually the problem of giant cars double parked on the whitstable road was there before the car park was closed. The car park is owned by the Uni and they have every right to close it - indeed, the closing of it makes it generally safer for the children who do walk that way. Most of these parents now park at the sports grounds half way up PW road. It's not that much further but it is a million times safer.

Unfortuately the people who pick up their kids from the front always double park on the whitstable road, and as I said before, nothing has changed. The situation is dangerous for the people who walk and have to cross the road, for other car drivers and for emergency vehicles. These same parents were also using the school's staff car park to turn around in. The headmaster devoted a large chunk of his last newsletter to the problem pleading with these parents not to block in the teachers and TAs who deal with their children.

I really have nothing but contempt for those parents who are parking on the main road.