School run 'chaos' a recipe for disaster

PAVEMENT PARKING OUTSIDE PRIMARY AS BAD AS DESCRIBED AS ECHO REPORTER GOES TO SEE FOR HIMSELF IN WAKE OF READER COMPLAINTS

- By LIAM THORP ECHO

PAVEMENT parking has become a huge problem in Liverpool in recent years. This is a city blighted by vehicles continuously parked across pavements, blocking pathways and causing dangers.

This problem becomes even more dangerous when it occurs outside a school. This is the case with Hunts Cross Primary School, where ludicrous levels of pavement parking have been highlighted to the ECHO.

Last week, resident and parent Bryan Hetherington shared shocking images of pavement parking outside the school.

He said "selfish and lazy" parents were putting children in danger and called for action.

We decided to head down to the area outside the school to see the problem for ourselves and what we witnessed could only be described as chaos.

The school is on Kingsthorne Road, a small street with only one main route in and out. It is at the junction between Kingsthorne and Laxton Road where things become particularly difficult at school pick-up and drop-off times.

We arrived just after 3pm and already we could see some cars parked either fully or largely on the pavements in the area outside the school.

This only got worse as more parents arrived, with many wanting to be as close to the school as possible.