SINGAPORE: For many parents who drive their children to school, traffic snarls and frayed tempers are everyday occurrences.
The mother-of-two and her husband have worked out that making separate trips to Methodist Girls’ School and Anglo-Chinese School , which their daughter and son attend, is the best way to handle the daily school run. According to the Union of Security Employees , the car had a valid label to enter the school, but had cut the queue of cars waiting to enter, and moved his vehicle dangerously even when the security officer was standing in front of it.
All the other parents are expected to use the HDB car park next to the school, where children enter by the school's back gate, he told CNA. There are typically two security officers at the school gate and one more at the exit to help pedestrians and children cross the road safely and signal to cars to move off.“There are people who will take the chance, use the yellow box to come in from the second lane,” he said.
Red Swastika School only allows parents to start entering the school gates at around 7.10am and by then, CNA observed that the innermost lane was already packed with cars waiting to turn into the HDB car park or the schools along Bedok North Road. Stopping in a yellow box is considered a traffic offence outside Silver Zones and School Zones. Owners of light vehicles and heavy vehicles can face fines of S$100 and S$150 respectively.
“Where necessary, LTA deploys parking wardens to guide traffic during the affected hours, to complement these measures,” said the authorities in the statement.LEAVE EARLIER OR BE LATE FOR SCHOOL “I told them ‘Just be late, just let the teacher know you were late’ because I don’t think it’s worth taking the risk.”
“But obviously if I’m blocked by someone I will make a U-turn ... or I will get my kids to drop off at the bus stop and then they walk in. It’s about how you handle it right? I cannot drop you at the doorstep every time because I need to wait in the queue for 15 minutes or so,” he added.PARENTS URGE OTHERS TO BE MORE PATIENT AND CAREFUL
Set time limit (20s) for them to drop off the kid near the school, no car can go in the school grounds, if hard to control school officials can send memos to parents to tell them drop off at nearest public carpark.
If able to standby LTA, TP or even outsourced Traffic Controllers at peak hours, situation maybe better. Only enforcement and summon get things move if some do not behave.
First-World problems!
If LTA can hire officers or use cameras to catch illegal driving in bus lanes and give way to buses exiting lanes, why not do the same for those many yellow boxes outside the school. At least think of the money since this have lesser chance of a successful appeal.
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