PSA: stop using the dropoff and bus loops as parking

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please stop.

1. Some schools have magnet buses dropping the kids off about an hour after the school finishes. So, don't use the bus loop as your parking space just because you are too lazy to walk that extra 10 to 20ft. You are blocking the buses from getting through. The bus drivers will not let the kids out of the bus if they cannot pull right up to the school. And if you are in the car waiting, FFS, get out of the way. Drive out of the loop and come back in if you must. Don't just sit there expecting the bus driver to try to navigate around you.

2. If you are picking up your child from after care, don't park in the dropoff loop and get out of your car. You are blocking other cars from getting through. And if you have a toddler in the car, don't leave your car running in the loop with your toddler strapped in, while you go into after care, and the doors close behind you. I was very tempted to say something to the after care provider. I am normally a MYOB type of person, but this is a bonehead move.

I have witnessed both these things at Ritchie Park ES, but I'm betting that this occurs in other ESs.

While I am at it, stop double parking on the street in front of a store waiting for someone. It reduces the street to one lane with cars trying to get through on either direction. It's one thing if the person you are picking up is already outside waiting for you, and it only take a few seconds for that person to get in the car, but it's a whole other thing if that person is in the store, and you are just waiting, blocking traffic. Drive around the block until the person comes out. And FFS, if you are blocking traffic, don't just sit there staring at your phone. Pay attention to what's going around you and you'll notice that people are getting really annoyed with you.

Have a nice day. That is all.

What is getting annoying is people like you thinking that venting on DCUM is actually going to bring about change. How about spending your time volunteering or thinking of solutions of how to fix problems instead of doing PSAs on DCUM.

? How about people just follow some common sense? The school has a rule about pulling all the way to the front in the drop off loop. Still, some parents don't follow the rules, which causes the line of cars to spill out onto the streets. The PSA was for those who don't follow any common sense or have any courtesy to the bus drivers or the people behind you.

[Anonymous]

This sort of thing is the reason decent people Uber for pickup and dropoff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This sort of thing is the reason decent people Uber for pickup and dropoff.

Unless this is sarcasm you can't tell me that parents actually use an Uber driver to take their kids to school. Why not just flag down the next car driving down the street? With all of the hysteria about kidnappings its seems ridiculous that you would let your child get into a car with some stranger.