Everyone knows how bad the traffic can be each morning and afternoon during school times.

This makes parking at the schools an issue, and for some reason there are still some parents who think that they can park in the wrong place while they are dropping off or collecting their children who attend the school.

This needs to be stopped!

Bollards for schools are a clever way of deterring these people from parking where they shouldn’t.

If there are bollards in the way then they will not be tempted into parking there.
This is a major issue and is often a health and safety aspect in schools around the country, so just by having these bollards installed, you will be helping to enhance the children and their parent’s safety, while they are collecting and dropping off their children.

These bollards can easily be installed anywhere and are not unsightly because they come in many designs and a choice of colours. You can even have them with your own choice of designs, such as… No Entry, school names and speed restrictions the list is endless. The Shug Parking bollards are vandal resistant and will not shatter or break like the plastic or splinter like wooden bollards.

Have a look at our product page and chose a bollard that is ideal for your school and start to reduce those people who park in dangerous areas of your school.

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How can I stop people parking in our private car park?

We only have five spaces at our work and it is clearly marked private parking only!. The parking spaces are about one meter away from my window and people have the audacity to park right outside; then walk out of the car park into the dentists next door!! I just glared at a woman doing this the other day and she gave me the biggest dirty look ever!! There’s plenty of space on the road but the parking inspectors patrol the streets often, so people don’t like to park there. How can I stop people parking in my spots?
I previously stuck letters on peoples windows and this has not helped, I am not sure if I am allowed to do this! It’s really been getting to me! Can Someone Help Me?

Geoff Blair (Melbourne)

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This must be quite annoying for you to see people stealing your car parking spaces and I know this can lead to a high amount of stress. From my experiences I have heard about people losing their temper and this has landed them in trouble with the law. The best solution to this problem is a car parking bollard. It is locked in the upright position and is folded flat on the ground when it is unlocked. So the owner gains access to his car parking space with ease. These parking bollards are easy to use and to install, they are rather affordable for the average person. A significant advantage is that your car parking spaces are always secure, because it is bolted or concreted in.

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Our parking area is secure, with the unit number clearly marked on each space. We don’t own a vehicle, so it is great to be able to offer our visitors a convenient, safe place to park when they come for dinner or to stay overnight.
Frequently however when I try to give a visitor our space I discover that it is already taken by another vehicle – I guess neighbours notice that our space is often vacant and that we won’t know or care.
We have on-site after-hours security, but they seem unable to help – they just tell us to report it to the building manager (and in one case I caught one of the security guards using the space! He is however no longer on duty in our building so I can’t blame him any more.)
I’ve looked at various options to deter this behaviour, but it is rarely the same vehicle offending twice. Suggestions that I’ve come across vary from leaving notes on the vehicle (which I usually do) to dumping garbage over the windscreen, letting down tyres and other vandalism. I don’t want to resort to this for two reasons; (1) it’s really not my style and (2) they know whose space they are using!
I’d love to have them towed or clamped, but I doubt this is legal (I Live in NSW, in the City of Sydney council area)
I have no way of knowing who owns the vehicles, rarely is it the same one twice, and I don’t really feel like camping out in a smelly and damp car park to see who they are. I’m actually a little surprised and annoyed at myself for letting this become such an issue with me!

I co-own a business in an inner city suburb. In our street and most of the surrounding streets in the suburb is paid meter parking. The suburb is full of mainly restaurants and cafes.
Pretty much since we’ve moved to this location we’ve had a problem with people parking in our car park. Due to the nature of our work we’re constantly in and out of the office so this is obviously a major inconvenience for us.
We have two car spaces for the business, one in front and one behind for my partner and I. We have a sign which states that it is a private car park and you will be towed if you park there – Which we recently spent several hundred dollars to upgrade ( pretty much made it 10x bigger and slightly more assertive) as people weren’t getting the message and just seemed to ignore it.
My initial tactic in dealing with these people was to park them in, go about my usual business and let them find me and ask me to move my car – to which I would usually reply something along the lines of “I’m busy with work right now, you’ll have to wait till I have some spare time and I’ll let you out” – you waste my time, I’ll waste yours sort of thing.
Seemed to work out fine for a while, only problem being they will usually park in the back space, blocking both spaces and forcing me to park across a footpath to park them in .
One day I turn up to work and find some idiot parked in the back space, I park behind them, walk to the front of their car, swear, turn around and see an inspector printing out a ticket. I explain to him the situation and that I had literally just arrived, but as the offender’s car was parked on my private property and I was on council property – I get the ticket. Fair enough, not his problem.
So I wait about 20 minutes for the offender to return so I can diligently request my $100 they now owe me, but eventually decide I’ve wasted enough time and money on this moron already and cut my losses.
So I know the obvious answer is to call the tow company and have them towed. Problem being ,there is some sort of policy or law that you must wait 45 minutes for the owner of the car to return before you can tow it . And as I suspect most people are just picking up coffees or takeaways and don’t want to pay the 50cents at the meter or just can’t be bothered walking an extra few meters, they are usually there for under 45 minutes.
A while ago I resorted to just flat out abusing people. Nothing too bad, mainly things along the line of “cheap, lazy, blind” etc with a few profanities in between for dramatic effect. But recently have found this to become draining, stressful , pointless , and have also been finding myself feeling slightly guilty about some of the exchanges I have i.e. an incident where I was quite verbally abusive toward a 65+ year old woman , who was probably a fairly nice person.

So, what can I do to solve this problem and should I be feeling guilty about abusing people?

Trev

A LOSTWITHIEL resident has hit out at careless drivers who “are putting people’s lives at risk” by parking their cars in front of the town’s fire engine exit.
Fran Leach, of North Street, spoke out in fury at a town council meeting last Tuesday after witnessing a car parked on the fire station’s ledge, at Pleyber Christ Way, on Sunday morning.
She demanded immediate action and asked councillors who control the community centre car park – the site of the station.
“If you go on a Friday and Sunday morning you will see it is getting positively dangerous,” she said.
“I came back this Sunday and there was a car boot sale on and somebody had the absolute audacity to park in front of the sliding doors.
“If we have a fair on a Friday or a Sunday we might as well play a fiddle if the fire service is needed because you cannot do anything.”
Mrs. Leach said a girl from the community centre took down the car’s registration number.
“I do not care about not being able to park, it is the actual danger of it,” she said.
Mayor Dave Robson told the meeting that the community centre uses and maintains the car park, but it is owned by the town council.
“We will contact Highways and try to get an enforcement officer down,” he said.
But Councillor Vic May said it was not an issue for Lostwithiel Town Council.
“That bit by the fire station is owned by Highways,” he said. The council car park starts from the bottom gate heading towards North Street.
“I did 30 years with Lostwithiel Fire Station and it is really down to the officer in charge to make sure it [the fire engine] can get out. It is nothing to do with this council.”
Councillor Rupert Warwick said it was an offence to block a fire exit and to call the police.
Watch manager at the station, Jonathon Abbiss, confirmed there was a problem with drivers parking close to the station, particularly during flea markets.
“Despite signs on the ground, these people do not seem to care,” he said.
“They try to park as close to the community centre as possible and it makes it quite hard to swing the engine round.”
He said the police are aware of the situation and he urged the public to be more aware of their parking, as the officers may need to get out at any time.
Station manager Francis Doney also confirmed the issue and said cars continue to park on the zig zag lines outside the station, despite signs being put up to deter this.
John Gilbert, chairman of the community centre trustees, said the centre has put up signs to ask people to park sensibly but that it has no control over the public or the car park.
A Cornwall Council spokesman said: “The road outside Lostwithiel Fire Station is clearly marked with yellow ‘keep clear’ zig zag lines.
“If inconsiderate drivers are still parking on these and causing an obstruction to emergency vehicles, then more formal double lines could be considered. Residents should raise these concerns with the town council and the local Cornwall councillor, Gavin Shakerley. The council’s Highways’ team can then consider this request.”

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http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/Lostwithiel-station-car-parking-sparks-row/story-15233507-detail/story.html

The Accident

Two-year-old Sadie Denor was killed at the entrance of a Blockbuster Video near Lake Michigan. It was dark, and she stood outside of the front door holding a balloon. The helium-filled balloon was a bonus on Friday, used to encourage family visits. About one hundred and twenty feet away, a small SUV turned into the parking lot and began to roll slowly down a continuous slope to the tape return box. Just in front of the drop box, there was an area reserved by yellow stripes for the return of video tapes, or so it seemed. The driver stopped and got out. She realised that the car was in neutral, jumped in, and tried to put the car in PARK. In her panic, she shifted into Drive. The police investigation showed that the car was equipped with a “high idle” feature used to increase engine speed while at rest. Energy generated the car’s computer provided momentum for the car to lunge.
In this case, the reserved spot was not for video returns, but a loading area for handicapped vans. No signs identified the handicapped parking place. The driver reasonably concluded that she left her car in the designated spot for the quick return of tapes. Safety accessories which could have prevented this accident were not used. The end of the reserved space was unfinished. No vertical bollard existed to prevent the encroachment or obstruction of the pedestrian way by cars. There wasn’t even a curb.
The path to the front door was straight, unobstructed, and sloped toward the building. The original plans for the store included finish details for the disabled parking space, but across the tire stop feature, pencilled on the original plans, it said “delete.” The smallest degree of pedestrian protection would have prevented this death.
This could have been easily averted if a Parking Bollard was in place. A number of things could have been done at the video store. As a minimum response, Blockbuster could have simply marked the parking place as reserved for disabled: two vertical bollards positioned at the head of the reserved handicapped path would have worked best.

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http://www.safety-engineer.com/parkingii.htm

Elderly Ronald Pemberton used his Peugeot to slowly push a Ford Ka out of the way of his garage, as children crossed the road from a primary school opposite. When the driver of the Ford appeared, Pemberton knocked him backwards and bruised his knees.
A fortnight later he did it again, shunting another car across the road.
The senior citizen, who still works running two stationery businesses, had rented a lock-up garage opposite the school for 20 years and had become fed up with his garage being blocked, Bristol Crown Court heard.
The court watched CCTV footage that showed how Pemberton slowly shunted two vehicles across Halston Drive in St Paul’s, towards Cabot Primary School.
Pemberton, of Franklyn Street, St Paul’s, pleaded guilty at Bristol Magistrates’ Court earlier this year to dangerous driving for the maneuver on November 24, 2009.
Yesterday he was sentenced for that offence and the second offence, which Pemberton had denied.
A jury found him guilty of the second charge of dangerous driving, in which he slowly and carefully pushed a silver Mazda out of the driveway in front of his garage with his Peugeot into an empty street on December 9 last year.
The second offence was only exposed following an investigation into the first incident, the court was told.
Recorder Nicholas Rowland, sentencing, banned Pemberton from driving for 12 months and ordered him to pay nearly £2,000 in fines, court costs and compensation.
Sarah Regan, prosecuting, sympathized with Pemberton’s frustration over parking in Bristol but said the maneuver clearly satisfied the test for dangerous driving.
She said: “The way you deal with it is to leave a note on the windscreen and have a word when they come back. You don’t use your car to move it.”
Giving evidence in the trial, Pemberton said he was unaware of the presence of pedestrians when he carried out the maneuvers.
“He had no idea whether people were passing by,” added Miss Regan.
Adrian Maxwell, defending, said Pemberton, who supplies the school with stationery, had never been in trouble with the police and knew the cul-de-sac well.
He said: “Pemberton has been in correspondence with the Bristol City Council to try to stop people parking there and has been co-operative with the police.
“He has been driving since he was about 23.”
The Recorder fined Pemberton £500 for the first offence, £200 for the second offence and ordered him to pay the victim Sayid Sharif £620.59 to cover the cost of the damage to his Ford Ka and £200 for personal injury.
He also ordered Pemberton to pay £400 in court costs and a £15 victim surcharge.
“So it is an expensive lesson for you,” he told Pemberton.
“I hope you will think long and hard before you do anything like this again.
“No doubt you were severely irritated with the long-existing parking problem.
“It’s very sad to see somebody of your age in court at all but I’m afraid you can’t go taking the law into your own hands.”

http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/Driver-83-banned-shunting-vehicle-away/story-11303367-detail/story.html