QUOTE (On the edge @ May 5 2015, 07:55 AM)
Since your day, schools have much wider catchments and a good few pupils have no other realistic choice.
Being a bit presumptuous there Mark. What do you think constitutes 'MY day'? Would this maybe be the same as 'YOUR day'?
QUOTE (On the edge @ May 5 2015, 07:55 AM)
Similarly, this isn't the first spat about school parking and if you took a little time to investigate, you'll find that it isn't anything to
do with 'incapability of walking'. Its actually to do with not being able to deliver kids to school quickly and efficiently - nothing more, nothing less.
That is absolute rubbish. You know it. I know it.
There are parents at EVERY school who could walk if they could be bothered or if they weren't scared to death of the thought of doing some exercise.
Within 1 mile catchment is achievable. The criteria for children getting free transport to school is TWO miles for children under 8 and
THREE miles for older children. Anything under that distance is therefore considered suitable and I think you could pick every other
parent parking on Brummell Road on an afternoon to be within that distance.
'Incapable of walking' is an alternative term for 'bone idle'. Some would drive their children in through the school gates, down the
corridor and throw them out at their desks if the option was available and it meant they didn't have to walk.
In any case they don't have to park directly outside the school. They could park a number of roads away and only walk a short
distance to the school if walking was such a frightening prospect. That would relieve congestion around the school gates where
there is the greatest hazard and the greatest potential for parked cars to cause problems for vulnerable pedestrians wanting to
cross the road.
QUOTE (On the edge @ May 5 2015, 07:55 AM)
...it is quite simple and straightforward to design attractive road schemes that do enable these problems to be eased
or even eliminated. It really isn't the job of commercial organisations to do the local council's work.
Pie in the Sky 'Blue Sky Apolitical Thinking' cobblers. I think you need a reality check.
You're dealing with a road network which has remained similar in layout since the 1960s. Unless you have the funds for
compulsory purchase where necessary and the will to face the flak from residents that object then in the real world you have to
work with what's available. And funding in the current climate is not 'simple and straightforward'.