Glasheen National School Traffic Chaos

[Roxetten]

What about them?

Cars can pass them, so they don't hold up the traffic, and there is a perfectly serviceable footpath there for parents and kids who are walking to school.

I guess you can report it to the traffic warden if you are so minded and they can come and issue tickets. It isn't a safety concern though, in the way that drivers ignoring the pedestrian crossing is.

So we can be selective about which laws we comply with?

Interesting.

 

[Matlock]

So we can be selective about which laws we comply with?

Interesting.

I never said that.

I specifically said you should report it to the relevant authority if you are so minded.

It does not pose the same safety risk for children though, which is why the school are protesting one and not the other

 

[Pooman]

So we can be selective about which laws we comply with?

Interesting.

Very dangerous behaviour parking where they are. High chance of a kid running out from behind a car. When they're dead or seriously injured something will be done. It will be the Council's fault of course, not the super lazy parents.

 

[Matlock]

Very dangerous behaviour parking where they are. High chance of a kid running out from behind a car. When they're dead or seriously injured something will be done. It will be the Council's fault of course, not the super lazy parents.

How would a child do that? The footpath is on the opposite side of the road

 

[Clairecarebear]

I think there is always an acceptance at school pick up and drop that there will be some level of illegal parking and challenge navigating the area. We live in a school area ourselves and see it. There is an accepted one way system and people generally try to avoid causing chaos.

Issues come when a minority just land the car blocking others or driveways etc. You cant change these people. I see it myself if collecting grandchildren.

A little cop on and courtesy from everyone generally solves potential issues.

 

[Roxetten]

Very dangerous behaviour parking where they are. High chance of a kid running out from behind a car. When they're dead or seriously injured something will be done. It will be the Council's fault of course, not the super lazy parents.

When cars & SUVs park on the left going up the hill, it forces cars driving up the hill over towards the children making their way up the footpath, there is very little margin for error because of the proximity of the cars to the pedestrians and if any child were to accidently step off the footpath, they would have a very close encounter with the traffic making it's way up the hill, there's also the added congestion that these cars cause, bearing in mind that you have traffic trying to get up the hill coming from both directions.

I never said it poses as much of a danger as cars running the red pedestrian lights but it still poses a risk, the infuriating part of it being that's it's parents of children going to school who are displaying such inconsiderate behaviour towards people walking up the hill.

What's even more baffling is that certain people on here want to normalise this behaviour.

So before parents start protesting about the traffic on Glasheen Road they should get their own house in order first.

It's also a sh*t show on the Lima Lawn side where some cars even mount the footpath while parking up to drop their kids to school.

I suspect that a few speed bumps along the Glasheen Road on either side of the hill up to the school would help put manners on drivers.

 

[Matlock]

When cars & SUVs park on the left going up the hill, it forces cars driving up the hill over towards the children making their way up the footpath, there is very little margin for error because of the proximity of the cars to the pedestrians and if any child were to accidently step off the footpath, they would have a very close encounter with the traffic making it's way up the hill, there's also the added congestion that these cars cause, bearing in mind that you have traffic trying to get up the hill coming from both directions.

That's generally not true in that there are cars parked on the other side too (outside the school) and the footpath is inside that.

I never said it poses as much of a danger as cars running the red pedestrian lights but it still poses a risk, the infuriating part of it being that's it's parents of children going to school who are displaying such inconsiderate behaviour towards people walking up the hill.

As someone who walks up that hill every day, I have never once found it inconsiderate.

What's even more baffling is that certain people on here want to normalise this behaviour.

As Claire says above, a bit of common sense would show that as long as those cars aren't blocking entrances it all works fine.

So before parents start protesting about the traffic on Glasheen Road they should get their own house in order first.

I, like a lot of parents in that school, walk my kids to school. What is it that I am meant to get in order before I am allowed to protest at inconsiderate drivers who break the lights?

It's also a sh*t show on the Lima Lawn side where some cars even mount the footpath while parking up to drop their kids to school.

I suspect that a few speed bumps along the Glasheen Road on either side of the hill up to the school would help put manners on drivers.

Or people could just respect the red light and lollipop man.

 

[Meridian]

Hey easy there now folks, I went to that school, a long long time ago.

No footpaths in those days going up that hill on the Glasheen Road side , we survived.
That and and of course real exhaust fumes back in the day.

 

[Pooman]

When cars & SUVs park on the left going up the hill, it forces cars driving up the hill over towards the children making their way up the footpath, there is very little margin for error because of the proximity of the cars to the pedestrians and if any child were to accidently step off the footpath, they would have a very close encounter with the traffic making it's way up the hill, there's also the added congestion that these cars cause, bearing in mind that you have traffic trying to get up the hill coming from both directions.

I never said it poses as much of a danger as cars running the red pedestrian lights but it still poses a risk, the infuriating part of it being that's it's parents of children going to school who are displaying such inconsiderate behaviour towards people walking up the hill.

What's even more baffling is that certain people on here want to normalise this behaviour.

So before parents start protesting about the traffic on Glasheen Road they should get their own house in order first.

It's also a sh*t show on the Lima Lawn side where some cars even mount the footpath while parking up to drop their kids to school.

I suspect that a few speed bumps along the Glasheen Road on either side of the hill up to the school would help put manners on drivers.

You will also have kids who walk to school themselves (those with less precious Mammies) and kids being kids some will walk up the side with no footpath. These fools who park there (and those that excuse it) are too stupid to understand this basic fact. One wrong step by a kid and they are dead, all to suit time lazy fecker who sits on their arse.

 

[Roxetten]

That's generally not true in that there are cars parked on the other side too (outside the school) and the footpath is inside that.

As someone who walks up that hill every day, I have never once found it inconsiderate.

As Claire says above, a bit of common sense would show that as long as those cars aren't blocking entrances it all works fine.

I, like a lot of parents in that school, walk my kids to school. What is it that I am meant to get in order before I am allowed to protest at inconsiderate drivers who break the lights?

Or people could just respect the red light and lollipop man.

Are you deliberately ignoring what I said? going up the hill in the morning you have parked cars on the left parked illegally,, cars driving up besides them and on the right children walking up the hill and people walking down against them who have dropped off their kids. These are the facts of the situation, which you seem to be blind to.

At the top off the hill you have peak congestion and as the road is wider cars can park on both sides.

Nobody with an ounce of common sense would argue that the assholes parking on the left on the hill are not adding to the congestion.

This is getting very tedious now, back on ignore you go.