The residents of Bryn Eryl and Parc Brynhyfryd squarely blame the school. The school blames health & safety and insurance. And the sixth formers blame this blog! Wouldn't be the first time.
Or something like that. A mini-peak of teenagers arriving yesterday via Facebook took umbrage at my comments about their parking on the two residential estates nearest Ysgol Brynhyfryd. I wasn't actually attacking the sixth formers, just trying to appeal to common sense.
But what about this for a neat solution? We're not aware of any parking restrictions on the main Mold Road. Leaving their cars east of Bryn Eryl & Parc Brynhyfryd on that road would cause absolutely no offence to anyone, as no one lives there. May be it would also help slow traffic to 30 on the A494, too, as a sort of traffic calming measure outside the school. No bad thing, perhaps, as residents of Mold Road have been asking for this for years, in view of the four schools nearby.
Today's Free Press takes up the story (and, yes, this blog got in first). It carefully steers away from blaming sixth formers and goes for the soft target—the school which, incidentally, it calls 'Brynhyfryd School'.
To be fair to the sixth formers, parking of their cars on the estates doesn't seem to cause 'traffic chaos' or 'safety concerns', as the Free Press asserts. Instead, it is no doubt rather inconvenient and annoying. And for pupils to think that their indiscriminate parking causes few problems ignores the fact that it would be a rare person indeed who felt happy with strangers parking outside their home, day in, day out. This no doubt would include the sixth formers' own parents.
Or something like that. A mini-peak of teenagers arriving yesterday via Facebook took umbrage at my comments about their parking on the two residential estates nearest Ysgol Brynhyfryd. I wasn't actually attacking the sixth formers, just trying to appeal to common sense.
But what about this for a neat solution? We're not aware of any parking restrictions on the main Mold Road. Leaving their cars east of Bryn Eryl & Parc Brynhyfryd on that road would cause absolutely no offence to anyone, as no one lives there. May be it would also help slow traffic to 30 on the A494, too, as a sort of traffic calming measure outside the school. No bad thing, perhaps, as residents of Mold Road have been asking for this for years, in view of the four schools nearby.Today's Free Press takes up the story (and, yes, this blog got in first). It carefully steers away from blaming sixth formers and goes for the soft target—the school which, incidentally, it calls 'Brynhyfryd School'.
To be fair to the sixth formers, parking of their cars on the estates doesn't seem to cause 'traffic chaos' or 'safety concerns', as the Free Press asserts. Instead, it is no doubt rather inconvenient and annoying. And for pupils to think that their indiscriminate parking causes few problems ignores the fact that it would be a rare person indeed who felt happy with strangers parking outside their home, day in, day out. This no doubt would include the sixth formers' own parents.