For someone who can't drive like me, the RAC have some interesting info here, including debunking a few myths and the legal status of idling.
Vehicle idling - why do drivers do it?
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Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
There’s a parent at my school who avoids parking on the zig zags by just driving his car right up onto the pavement (which is barely wider than the car) and leaving it there for ten minutes. If you have a pushchair or child on a bike/scooter you have to go into the road to get round. Maximum twattery.
weltweit
Well-Known Member
I am surprised he doesn't get an earful every morning?
maomao
普費斯
People just put up with it. No-one wants to start a fight and the law is on the side of the drivers. Twenty pound fine for pumping exhaust into a primary school entrance and only if you don't turn it off when asked by a traffic warden.
My kid's school is bringing the traffic wardens down and has promised to talk to the wankers individually.
weltweit
Well-Known Member
Back a few years when my son was in primary they went to town, there was no parking or stopping anywhere on their street, you had to park on one of the feeder streets and walk from there. It was a bit of a pain, we were coming from too far to walk, but in their defence the school street was much more civilised.
Plumdaff
joy in people
At our school, otherwise perfectly reasonable people think it's normal to send WhatsApp messages warning each other that the terrible traffic wardens are around, as it's an appalling imposition on them to object to idling on double yellows and I notice fellow parents are the worst for dangerously driving through pedestrian crossings (impatience caused by the gridlock dropping off by car causes). This isn't even a rural school where I could understand parents needing to drive.
The school head has remained completely uninterested in school streets/ school buses etc (I've emailed a lot) and as E is in year 5 now I'm not going to push it anymore.
The school head has remained completely uninterested in school streets/ school buses etc (I've emailed a lot) and as E is in year 5 now I'm not going to push it anymore.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
I punch in the face would probably be quite effective.
Crispy
The following psytrance is baṉned: All
I'm amazed his paint remains unkeyed
Key his car
This ^
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
Then follow him home and burn his house down.
Then salt the graves of his dead relatives so no flowers ever grow there again.
T & P
|-o-| (-o-) |-o-|
I genuinely don’t understand why anyone would willingly let their engine run idle (not counting reasonably short waiting times, such as at a traffic lights). Even if you don’t give a fuck about the environment, it’s noisy and bothersome.
FWIW I very rarely see it happening myself. It could be that my later start of my day means I don’t hear or see drivers warming up their engines in the morning before they set off to work. Or perhaps it’s more of a ‘provinces’ thing. But whereas I recall the odd one over the years, it really is very infrequent in my street.
A tad more common is twats playing load music while waiting for a friend to come out of their house, or spending 5-10 minutes in the car talking to their girlfriend or mate with the music playing loud after giving them a lift home. It could be that the loud music drowns out the engine noise I guess
FWIW I very rarely see it happening myself. It could be that my later start of my day means I don’t hear or see drivers warming up their engines in the morning before they set off to work. Or perhaps it’s more of a ‘provinces’ thing. But whereas I recall the odd one over the years, it really is very infrequent in my street.
A tad more common is twats playing load music while waiting for a friend to come out of their house, or spending 5-10 minutes in the car talking to their girlfriend or mate with the music playing loud after giving them a lift home. It could be that the loud music drowns out the engine noise I guess
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
I can’t do the thing where the engine stops at the lights. The car does have it, and it works for the gf, but I obviously drive slightly differently, do something in a different order somehow, so it pretty much never kicks in for me. With some lights where I know it has a long cycle I just turn it off manually then restart before the lights change.
l'Otters
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When I had an old, unreliable piece of sh*t of a van, it was such a palaver to get it started I was always a bit anxious about turning it off unless I knew it could be left stationary and unattended.
I've had a slight hangover from that, but now mostly trust the battery on my slightly more modern van will cope with being restarted after very short bursts of driving. Not to the extent where I'd risk turning it off at a red light, but anytime I'm parked for longer than ten seconds or so.
I've had a slight hangover from that, but now mostly trust the battery on my slightly more modern van will cope with being restarted after very short bursts of driving. Not to the extent where I'd risk turning it off at a red light, but anytime I'm parked for longer than ten seconds or so.
Geoffers
Little golden birdies
Bump because leaving your engine on whilst parked has been illegal for 22 years now, yet continues to happen.
I still don't think many drivers a) realise it is officially banned and b) know what 'idling' means, so a poster saying 'don't idle' is maybe interpreted as 'don't park for too long'? It needs a new term.
I am a member of a campaign group that sponsors signs around schools to switch off engines etc, and it's weird because it's the only campaign group I've been in that is campaigning for something that is already law.
Classic combo is driver in parked car with engine on, looking at phone; and police vans - the red ones with officers in - always, always have their engine running.
I still don't think many drivers a) realise it is officially banned and b) know what 'idling' means, so a poster saying 'don't idle' is maybe interpreted as 'don't park for too long'? It needs a new term.
I am a member of a campaign group that sponsors signs around schools to switch off engines etc, and it's weird because it's the only campaign group I've been in that is campaigning for something that is already law.
Classic combo is driver in parked car with engine on, looking at phone; and police vans - the red ones with officers in - always, always have their engine running.
hash tag
Reaching out
The law does not apply to them
maomao
普費斯
cunt pumping
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
I’m not familiar with these! Or maybe I am and I just think they’re fire service vehicles.
wemakeyousoundb
hopefully not gimboid
put your foot on the clutch at mixed colour time and no seconds are lost for the race to the next red traffic light
Only one?
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
Since I bought one at the beginning of December I have become an unabashed fan of hybrid vehicles. Not only does the engine not idle at all but approaching traffic lights etc it will shut the engine off (if running) as soon as I start applying the brakes.
Advances in technology will end engine idling and in the meantime is probably making me feel so smug it annoys even me.
Advances in technology will end engine idling and in the meantime is probably making me feel so smug it annoys even me.
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Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Ah! I’ve not seen these.
WouldBe
Dislicksick
Age related mobility problems. He's had wheels fitted.
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
Curses even though I have corrected my typo it is preserved for ever more
InArduisFouette
Well-Known Member
What a surprise , wrong again ,
When Can You Park Your Van On Double Yellow Lines? - Direct Line For Business
As a van driver, understanding where and when you're allowed to park can be tricky. Here's Direct Line's guide to when it's OK to park on double yellow lines.
Yellow lines and parking signs meaning | RAC Drive
Everything you need to know about parking rules and laws in the UK, including the RAC guide for parking on single and double yellow lines.
The Highway Code - Waiting and parking (238 to 252) - Guidance - GOV.UK
Rules for waiting and parking, including rules on parking at night and decriminalised parking enforcement.
I suggest you re-read Rule 238 as the prohibition of setting down is on School markings
