Good on these parents.

I try to take a similar approach at my Boy's school in #Warwickshire, though as it's often only me, the impact is limited, and people will just park in front of me anyway.

My years-long calls for #SchoolStreets are met with platitudes from #WarwickshireCountyCouncil
but no actual action - money is cited as one issue, of course. Meanwhile the problem worsens seemingly by the week, especially now the weather has turned.

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/local-news/picketing-parents-say-its-only-7825129

Dangerous school parking 'matter of time until someone's hurt'

'The amount of near misses we have seen is too many'

LeicestershireLive

In the same paragraph, a spokesperson for #LeicestershireCountyCouncil said, "There’s no easy solution to dangerous parking outside schools" then "We can confirm that the zig-zag markings outside the school are enforceable by camera car".

Surely there *is* an easy solution then. Frequent enforcement visits; maybe permament cameras. Then to reduce manpower burden, close part of the street at school run times, and put a permament through route restriction in place.

This is a cop-out from LCC.

@BicycleBen Can you submit your own videos/photos to Operation Snap in Leicestershire?

Enforcement is a problem here in Worcestershire too, but we can submit evidence to West Mercia via Operation Snap and they will take action (e.g. this recent one I submitted outside my son's school resulted in enforcement)

@alexmace We can in Warwickshire, though given the amount of issues, I'd be doing nothing else.

Leicestershire, I don't know. They don't use the easy Nextbase platform for reporting, but they do have their own (more complicated) submission process for road incidents which I've reluctantly used occasionally for close pass incidents when cycling over the border. Whether that can cover this sort of thing, I'm not sure.

@BicycleBen It is deeply annoying - Worcester City Council is awful at enforcement, but gets to keep the money from any fines, so I don't really understand why they won't hire more people.

From what I see every day it should be possible to easily fine enough to people to pay for the wages.