School parking Source: The Courier-Mail
A HIT list of schools with dangerous parking issues has been drawn up by the Brisbane City Council after complaints about poor driver behaviour among parents.
The list, revealed in school newsletters, warns those with the most complaints made against them have been targeted.
Schools on the hit list have been told the council will maintain a "presence and enforce illegal parking within school zones".
"As you know, parking spaces during pick up and set down times are at a premium . . . (which) leads to poor driver behaviour and potentially dangerous parking practices," the BCC letter states.
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BCC Brisbane Lifestyle Committee chairwoman Krista Adams said about 20 to 25 schools per term were on its list as part of a rolling program which started last year because of a "very high rate of complaints about illegal parking around schools".
Cr Adams said different schools were targeted each term and were sent a letter beforehand to give "a heads-up" council officers would be patrolling the area.
She declined to reveal the schools involved this term but said most people would recognise those in their local area "that cause more dramas than others".
"There are schools that have got issues and it is not because the parents are more poorly behaved, it is where they are," Cr Adams said.
She said the schools had either outgrown their suburbs, were on main roads, or the number of children at the school had increased.
"Unfortunately, sometimes the last straw is giving them (parents) a monetary fine, so it actually gets through to them," she said.
"My experience is principals and P&Fs are crying out for us to do more in this space."
A Courier-Mail investigation has found Chapel Hill State School, Kelvin Grove State College, Marshall Road and Wilston State schools, St Martin's Catholic Primary School and St Joseph's College at Gregory Terrace have all received the parking letters since the start of last year.
Windsor State School faces major parking issues, with the principal already warning parents in a recent newsletter to "be mindful" of the needs of their neighbours to access their properties.
At Kelvin Grove State College, which has reported instances of aggressive parent driver behaviour, volunteer Cathy Barker said they were tackling the issue by having volunteers in high visibility shirts deliver children directly to their parents, who had their children's name written in the front of the car.
She said she would welcome council intervention to change long term parking restrictions in the area to keep a lid on illegal driving manoeuvres.
"Despite our best efforts, drivers often do illegal u-turns and double park, but when police are out on patrol the number of incidents drops dramatically' said Mrs Barker.
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