Parents 'spat and sworn at' over zig-zag parking outside Boston school
ONGOING issues with drivers parking on zig-zag lines outside a school near Boston have been raised again by a concerned parent.
Mother Linda Clare says parents parking on the zig-zags outside St Thomas Primary School in Wyberton are not only causing a danger to children crossing the road but are blocking the road to passing through traffic.
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ONGOING ISSUE: Nerys McGarry, a former PCSO, launched an initiative in 2007 to stop illegal parking outside St Thomas School in Wyberton. The issue continues.
Mrs Clare, whose daughter attends the school, said about 13 cars are illegally parked in the mornings and afternoons.
She said: "Something needs to be done about this.
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"These cars are extremely dangerous.
"There is a reason these road markings are outside the school and people should show more respect.
"I am aware that some parents have asked people parking on the zig-zags to move on but they were spat at and sworn at.
"Some sort of enforcement needs to be in put in place to ensure people stop parking illegally at school times."
The issue of parking on the zig-zags has been ongoing since 2007 when an initiative was launched by local PCSO Nerys McGarry aimed at combating the same problem.
A police spokesman said: "Inconsiderate parking is a problem that affects schools right across the county and all the neighbourhood policing teams work tirelessly to educate parents and to find new ways of getting the message across.
"In recent months, initiatives have included signage and banners, radio broadcasts and even pupils staging 'accidents' outside the school gates to shock motorists into behaving more responsibly.
"The problem continues to be a priority and we will carry on tackling it through education and enforcement.
"But we also rely on parents to play their part and avoid parking in places that puts their own and other people's children at risk."
4 Comments
by IT_MAN
Wednesday, March 13 2013, 10:43PM
“VictorToo: You have the answer, they will stop doing it if the police or people in charge of parking just show up with a camera to take a photo of the offense with registration and pop the a ticket in the post, after a few tickets they should be educated, trouble is the authorities won't do it.”
by samatkins78
Wednesday, March 13 2013, 4:27PM
“St Peter & St Paul Primary School in Burgh Le Marsh has/had the same issues and they teamed up with the Road Safety Partnership and Police to stage what could potentially happen outside of their school one morning...A young journalist from the school put together an article about it with some interesting responses from parents. It's definitely worth a read: http://tinyurl.com/bmhu53f”
by VictorToo
Wednesday, March 13 2013, 12:01PM
“Rather than signs and campaigns, why don't the police just send someone there to enforce the law ? I'm pretty sure once they've been ticketed they'll think twice.”
by Numb_Chumpy
Wednesday, March 13 2013, 9:59AM
“Didn't you know Mrs Clare? The moment one puts one's child in the back of ones car, one immediately becomes much more important than everyone else and the laws of the land no longer apply to one. How dangerous one's behaviour is is simply irrelevant, because the convenience of one and one's child is paramount. As for spitting and swearing at these selfish oafs who fail to grasp this concept, that is entirely acceptable because one has one's child in the car and thus one is much more important than everyone else. It really is quite simple; one fails to see what the issue is.”