Parents fear for children with lack of safe parking (From Basildon Recorder)
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Parents fear for children with lack of safe parking
8:30am Monday 8th October 2012 in News By Luke Lambert
Car "chaos" outside Janet Duke Primary School
PARENTS are concerned their children are at risk due to a lack of parking near a Basildon primary school.
Parents say they find it a "nightmare" dropping off and picking up their children from Janet Duke Primary School on Markhams Chase.
Martin Saunders, from Tyler Avenue, says parents park their cars on the curbs all the way down the road since Markhams Chase Sports Centre across the road shut, making way for further housing.
Mr Saunders, 46, said: “It is extremely difficult for parents at times. For parents who work long hours and have limited time to take their children there is no other way but to drop your children off. A lot of parents are having to get to the school extremely early to get their children at the end of the school day and that simply isn’t fair.”
Donna Blythe, 39, from Gower Chase in Laindon said she had been hit by a car outside the school due to a lack of parking space.
“A couple of months ago a woman reversed into me in her haste to back into a space. I have been sent to the hospital for physio treatment ever since. It really is an accident waiting to happen and I strongly believe this could happen again. I am just thankful it was me and not a child.”
Fiona Adeniji said: “Parking is an issue and parents are having to park by the road which isn’t ideal. We need a lollipop person to patrol the road but haven’t been able to secure one at this time. We would encourage all interested parties to volunteer for a couple of hours in the morning or afternoon to help the school and the children.”
Comments(39)
Olivia2847
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8:46am Mon 8 Oct 12
Eric Whim
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8:53am Mon 8 Oct 12
Get the cosseted little fatties to walk a bit further up the road, maybe even all the way home!
v.randy
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8:59am Mon 8 Oct 12
Unless you have a brand new school built on green belt thus allowing a generous car park then you will always struggle .But then again parents don't help ,I seen some pretty dodgy parking in my time.And despite the continous reminders parents don't walk or park and walk but love dropping as near as possible ..they consider it a challenge.
Olivia2847
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9:06am Mon 8 Oct 12
Eric Whim wrote:Just dropping off one child mostly?
It's always been 'hell' for pedestrians trying to walk past that school when all the parents are hanging about outside in their cars, on the pavement for ages before school time finishes.
Get the cosseted little fatties to walk a bit further up the road, maybe even all the way home!
Nebs
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9:28am Mon 8 Oct 12
v.randy
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12:09pm Mon 8 Oct 12
Close the road to all traffic for 30 mins in the morning and afternoon.
Force the lardies out of their 4x4s and other benefit funded vehicles and let them waddle.
Eric Whim
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2:01pm Mon 8 Oct 12
Don't forget to vote in the local elections.......
GentleGiant
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2:05pm Mon 8 Oct 12
Get the children to walk.
If they live too far away, then park a few streets away and walk from there.
Basildon.lad.21
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3:08pm Mon 8 Oct 12
Eric Whim
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3:35pm Mon 8 Oct 12
Basildon.lad.21 wrote:mummy doesn't want them getting their shoes dirty
Have they ever heard of legs? They able you to walk. If they walked instead of using their car then maybe none of this would happen. Anything to get in the paper.
Eric Whim
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3:35pm Mon 8 Oct 12
Basildon.lad.21 wrote:mummy doesn't want them getting their shoes dirty
Have they ever heard of legs? They able you to walk. If they walked instead of using their car then maybe none of this would happen. Anything to get in the paper.
Steve H
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3:43pm Mon 8 Oct 12
If the parents have to get to the school extremely early to pick up their kids then they can't work that longer hours!
Eric Whim
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3:55pm Mon 8 Oct 12
Steve H wrote:they might have to miss the second half of Jeremy Kyle though....
WALK!!!!! If the parents have to get to the school extremely early to pick up their kids then they can't work that longer hours!
JH_123
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4:58pm Mon 8 Oct 12
Not too far to walk is it?
Eric Whim
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5:34pm Mon 8 Oct 12
perini
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6:55pm Mon 8 Oct 12
Why isn't it fair? You and nobody else decided to have children so live with it!
Diannah
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10:17pm Mon 8 Oct 12
The only people the children are at risk from are the parents themselves who are in such a rush to dump and run that they cannot park safely.
kedoyle
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10:20pm Mon 8 Oct 12
Olivia2847
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2:06am Tue 9 Oct 12
kedoyle wrote:Cross the road earlier before you get near the skool!
my children go to this school and i never drive but it takes us almost 10 minutes to cross the road just to get to the gates and to do this safely you teach children how to cross the road safely and most mornings you can not do this i have got my children to school early and still end up cutting it fine to get them in in time for the register cause it has taken us soo long to cross the road so before you pre judge us all just think
domniki1
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3:46am Tue 9 Oct 12
Olivia2847
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8:15am Tue 9 Oct 12
domniki1 wrote:What? ALL of the parents are working? Take the blinkers off! Find a parent who doesn't work and get them to walk them to school with the dog so and so they can cart all the scooters back after chatting at the school gates for an hour!
All the remarks re walking, what about the parents that need to be at work at 9am on the dot, as many of us do work even in Basildon, so parking half a mile away then walking that simply means we would be late for work everyday.
Steve H
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8:33am Tue 9 Oct 12
kedoyle wrote:Do they teach punctuation at Janet Duke?
my children go to this school and i never drive but it takes us almost 10 minutes to cross the road just to get to the gates and to do this safely you teach children how to cross the road safely and most mornings you can not do this i have got my children to school early and still end up cutting it fine to get them in in time for the register cause it has taken us soo long to cross the road so before you pre judge us all just think
domniki1
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8:38am Tue 9 Oct 12
GentleGiant
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8:58am Tue 9 Oct 12
....and yes, I am a parent, but I do not fuss over my kids, they are growing up to be independent and not rely upon their mum and dad.
Many of these kids are probably old enough to walk themselves to school.
Do the school not provide walking buses? If not, why not?
domniki1
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9:01am Tue 9 Oct 12
perini
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11:49am Tue 9 Oct 12
domniki1 wrote:Just walk, and get up earlier! Yes - I do think a 6 year old is old enough to walk a mile to school especially with others.
Do you really think 6 years old is old enough to walk 1 mile to school on their own, admittedly when they are older yes they can walk or get a bus, and i do not think any of my friends would be willing to walk to my house then pick my child up then walk the 1 mile to school and vice versa, there simply should be more parking assigned
Olivia2847
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3:10pm Tue 9 Oct 12
domniki1 wrote:Not ANY parent - doesn't your child have any friends - oh joy -obviously not!
I do not have blinkers on but I simply would not trust another parent to walk my child to school and pick her up again considering she is only six, you obviously are not a parent yourself, as you would then understand the joy that parents get dropping their kids off to school and picking them back up again.
Trainman
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10:43pm Tue 9 Oct 12
When I attended it, I WALKED from the top of Tyler Avenue, LAINDON, through Bluehouse Farm, and on to the school in LAINDON.
It is about TIME, the Echo checked their maps with regards as to WHERE different places are, so as to report the TRUE facts.
Olivia2847
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4:58am Wed 10 Oct 12
Trainman wrote:I'm lost ......
Janet Duke School is in LAINDON, and most certainly NOT Basildon. I should know, as I was born in LAINDON, as well as attended Markhams Chase School, now renamed Janet Duke, in honour of this WONDERFUL Headmistress.
When I attended it, I WALKED from the top of Tyler Avenue, LAINDON, through Bluehouse Farm, and on to the school in LAINDON.
It is about TIME, the Echo checked their maps with regards as to WHERE different places are, so as to report the TRUE facts.
Olivia2847
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4:58am Wed 10 Oct 12
kedoyle
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11:36am Wed 10 Oct 12
Olivia2847 wrote:for your information there is no where to cross near the school apart from where all the children cross and we are actually always there either 5mins early or bang on time
kedoyle wrote:Cross the road earlier before you get near the skool!
my children go to this school and i never drive but it takes us almost 10 minutes to cross the road just to get to the gates and to do this safely you teach children how to cross the road safely and most mornings you can not do this i have got my children to school early and still end up cutting it fine to get them in in time for the register cause it has taken us soo long to cross the road so before you pre judge us all just think
kedoyle
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11:39am Wed 10 Oct 12
Steve H wrote:your funny!!!! NOT
kedoyle wrote:Do they teach punctuation at Janet Duke?
my children go to this school and i never drive but it takes us almost 10 minutes to cross the road just to get to the gates and to do this safely you teach children how to cross the road safely and most mornings you can not do this i have got my children to school early and still end up cutting it fine to get them in in time for the register cause it has taken us soo long to cross the road so before you pre judge us all just think
Olivia2847
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1:29pm Wed 10 Oct 12
kedoyle wrote:I don't believe you!
Olivia2847 wrote:for your information there is no where to cross near the school apart from where all the children cross and we are actually always there either 5mins early or bang on time
kedoyle wrote:Cross the road earlier before you get near the skool!
my children go to this school and i never drive but it takes us almost 10 minutes to cross the road just to get to the gates and to do this safely you teach children how to cross the road safely and most mornings you can not do this i have got my children to school early and still end up cutting it fine to get them in in time for the register cause it has taken us soo long to cross the road so before you pre judge us all just think
Olivia2847
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1:29pm Wed 10 Oct 12
kedoyle wrote:I don't believe you!
Olivia2847 wrote:for your information there is no where to cross near the school apart from where all the children cross and we are actually always there either 5mins early or bang on time
kedoyle wrote:Cross the road earlier before you get near the skool!
my children go to this school and i never drive but it takes us almost 10 minutes to cross the road just to get to the gates and to do this safely you teach children how to cross the road safely and most mornings you can not do this i have got my children to school early and still end up cutting it fine to get them in in time for the register cause it has taken us soo long to cross the road so before you pre judge us all just think
Eric Whim
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4:14pm Wed 10 Oct 12
I don't suppose the'd be too happy with al the parking half on the pavements with hordes of fat smoking parents hangig around for rotund little Chardonnay and DerWayne to get out of school....
APR
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5:43pm Thu 11 Oct 12
The leave the engine running to keep the heater or air con working.
APR
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5:48pm Thu 11 Oct 12
I assume that should read ....Kerbs, not curbs ?
domniki1
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5:34am Wed 17 Oct 12
Olivia2847 says...
8:45am Mon 8 Oct 12