traffic warden a law for one!

[wendilla]

I pick up my g/son from school and parking is a problem.I have a ticket issued from school I display on windscreen and can go in near car park for pick up and drop off only but now and again I get parked nearer and one side is yellow lines and traffic wardens patrol at school hours and this particuliar day a car parked just at 3 30pm on yellow line when little ones come out .Traffic warden said he couldn't park there but told him to park just across in someones private disabled parking spot out side there house.. nearly said something but thought I would get my facts right first before I say anything .I dont think the traffic warden should have told him to park there .What do you think.

[bednobs]

this parking problem really exercises you dosent it? personally i dont think its right unless the person had a disabled badge, in which case its ok.
again i think that noone should be able to park close by, give the little porkers some exercise to actually walk to their parents/grandparents cars!

[wendilla]

Thanks for answering but if he had a disabled badge it would have been ok for him to park there .It just annoys me that some people can get away with anything .Perhaps I not got the right face lol or car.

[bednobs]

i suppose in a continuum of bad/good parking, then parking in a disabled spot is "better" than obscuring the road for children gettin run down

[wendilla]

Sorry but I don't agree with you .Most days I have to go to the car park like eveyone else but on the way round if there is a gap I will park there instead.So he should have given himself plenty time to go and park not just roll up at 3 30 just as the children are coming out.

[bednobs]

you dont agree its better to park in a space than to block the road for others and make them be unable to see dangers?

[wendilla]

No I don't agree that he should have been allowed to park in the private disabled spot.

[wendilla]

Hi bednobs,your name rang a bell so I looked back to a previous post of mine that you replied to and you said" It makes me angry when I see people causing an obstruction" so how would you have felt as you stated you are a disabled driver come back and find a car parked in your disabled parking place. I just see red when some people get away with things but if I was to do it once I would not be so lucky.

[bednobs]

yep, i do hate it when people cause an obstruction ... thats why i think it would be safer for the person to pull into a disabled space than cause an obstruction and park ont he single yellers!
i get really cross when people park in disabled spaces, and as i said, in an ideal world, the persn would have parked some way away and walked. If the choice was between the space and line though ....

[tigwig]

I think people should stop being so lazy and walk to pick up their children from school. My daughter attends mornings only so that's 4 journeys a day for me and I live 2 miles away, so that's 8 miles a day I manage to walk. It makes me mad when people who live just round the corner drive, then park on yellow lines.