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 @alexmace I don’t think we have an Operation Snap or similar here. I’ve not heard of that. Have you got a link to more info about it at all? I’ll have to suggest it as a way to help them out of their state of ‘financial emergency’!

@LeicsCountyBike @alexmace This is the page for #Warwickshire Police, and I know there are others including #WestMidlands Police. There's a link in there which will take you through to the #Nextbase system which provides a straightforward (though not flawless) single page reporting method.

Having used both, it's a good system compared to Leics. However, individual force processes do still come into play. For example, Warks now give brief status updates; WM do not.

https://www.warwickshire.police.uk/police-forces/warwickshire-police/areas/warwickshire-police/campaigns/campaigns/2019/operation-snap/

@BicycleBen @LeicsCountyBike Here's West Mercia's page on it https://www.westmercia.police.uk//police-forces/west-mercia-police/areas/west-mercia/campaigns/campaigns/2019/operation-snap/

They're pretty good at dealing with it quickly and telling you what happened, e.g. this was a day after I submitted that DHL van

@alexmace @LeicsCountyBike That's pretty good communication. Here, Warwickshire give very brief status updates - usually a warning letter, occasionally under investigation:

"Thank you for the above submission to Operation Snap. It has been reviewed and we will be making further investigations into this matter. Please retain the original footage and refrain from exposing it to social media, as this may prejudice any potential proceedings."

I'm happy with that though. We used to get nothing.

@BicycleBen @alexmace There’s a police incident reporting page apparently which people use: https://www.leics.police.uk/ro/report/rti/rti-beta-2.1/report-a-road-traffic-incident/
@LeicsCountyBike @alexmace Yes, that's the one I use for close passes and the like. It's much more involved than the Nextbase form, and media provision is a hassle. It does work, but I find it takes a lot more time.