Ealing Council pedestrian zones.

[LanceRS]

For anyone unfortunate enough to have to drive within the London borough of Ealing, may I please bring to your attention a new to me cash making exercise.
It seems that between certain hours, certain roads with schools on are pedestrian!
Not the usual, obvious pedestrian zone, no barriers, change of road surface etc.
Instead they mount a sign, 15 feet in the air (not where you tend to be looking when navigating the associated hazards around schools) hidden among the numerous other 'road furniture'!
They refuse to accept that their signage in inadequate and difficult to see when driving and continue to issue fines. I have now fallen foul of these twice in different places.
Beware people and good luck.

[Skodillac]

Can you post an example from Google Streetview please?

Interested as I'm planning to move to Ealing from out of town and will be driving in to view properties.

[Ussrcossack]

Not some where I'd go, but appreciated

If they refuse to acknowledge their inadequate signs then canyou appeal then go to an independent appeal, like with council parking fines

Just a thought

[Dave Hedgehog]

They are called school streets in southwark, waze knows when you can use them, they are the new hotness for london councils, expect them to appear everywhere they can put them

https://www.southwark.gov.uk/parking-streets-and-t...

same in Ealing

https://www.ealing.gov.uk/info/201146/neighbourhoo...

[Yellow Lizud]

They've got some round Reading as well.

[Skodillac]

Yellow Lizud said:

They've got some round Reading as well.

Really? Somewhat embarrassingly I live in Reading and haven't noticed any.

So, considering that, I don't think they're going to be much of a problem for me in Ealing, either.

[Foss62]

If it was anything like round here, most of the general traffic problems disappear when the school holidays start. Anything that persuades parents to let their kids make their own way to school must be a good idea. It would do wonders for the obesity crisis as well.

[Yellow Lizud]

Skodillac said:

Yellow Lizud said:

They've got some round Reading as well.

Really? Somewhat embarrassingly I live in Reading and haven't noticed any.

So, considering that, I don't think they're going to be much of a problem for me in Ealing, either.

Barton Rd next to The Fox & Hounds Tilehurst, certainly has (although it doesn't show on street view so must be fairly recent).
I know there are other places as well but can't remember where now!

[Yellow Lizud]

Skodillac said:

Really? Somewhat embarrassingly I live in Reading and haven't noticed any.

So, considering that, I don't think they're going to be much of a problem for me in Ealing, either.

I don't know where any of these schools are, but here's what Reading council's web site says:-


Reading School Streets Programme
Reading now has 6 school street in operation across the borough covering 10 schools. These include 8 primary schools and 2 secondary schools.

Park Lane Primary School Street

Thameside Primary School Street

Wilson Primary School Street

Crescent Road School Street

[LanceRS]

Skodillac said:

Can you post an example from Google Streetview please?

Interested as I'm planning to move to Ealing from out of town and will be driving in to view properties.

Possibly less of an issue if you are in a modern SUV type of box, in something that sits low, those signs are not at eye level.
More annoying is that they have appeared in places that I haven't been for a while but spent many years driving around with no problems.

[nvubu]

My wife was a stand-in coach for an after school club at Coldfall Primary School. The address is Coldfall Avenue, Muswell Hill, London, N10 1HS.

She drove and parked on Coldfall Avenue, ran the after school club, and 2 weeks later a nice fine dropped through the post. The school didn't want to know, said she should have parked on Everington Rd where they have another entrance. Nothing on their website about this. Council rejected our appeal that she was working at the school and parked at their address - with a confirming letter from the organiser.

[normalbloke]

Ealing and Reading are dead to me…

[raspy]

I see these all over London. One has to be vigilant when driving in a city. A lot of people driving on the same roads, day in, day out are driving mentally on autopilot and don't realise that new signs have been added, until the first penalty comes in the mail.

[RECr]

Foss62 said:

If it was anything like round here, most of the general traffic problems disappear when the school holidays start. Anything that persuades parents to let their kids make their own way to school must be a good idea. It would do wonders for the obesity crisis as well.

That's partially because fewer people are travelling to work during the school holidays aswell.