I am talking to people in a road near to a school in the ward, and it is very upsetting how some very selfish people are making life difficult for residents. Those collecting children from school are not only parking on pavements causing them to crack; making it difficult and dangerous for children that are walking, but also blocking people's drives, blocking entrance and exits to roads for residents, and to top it all tipping litter from the car whilst they wait for children to come out.
We have worked tirelessly with the school, with the police, with the enforcement service, with the Council transportation department, and some things are about to happen, with an excellent Power Point presentation that the children have done just launched. However it is an uphill battle as so many parents are determined that the children must only walk the very minimum distance possible to school. Why chidren in the 21st Century are less able to walk to school than before is beyond me.
We have spent money from our environmental budget and persuaded the Council to make no end of improvements to the walk to school to make it more posssible.
However, we will continue to work with all concerned for a better solution.
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