Writing to Your MP

As my local MP for Sudbury, you will, no doubt, be well aware of the traffic congestion that occurs every day, twice a day, 5 days a week at the junction of Cross Street and Barnaby Lane, close to Arrowe Hall Primary School.

I wish to draw your attention to the problems we have with regards to having safe access to pick up and drop off our children at the school. My daughter Hannah attends this school and, although I’m not a car owner myself, each day Hannah and I are subject to a very hazardous walk to and from school with some parents often parking on the kerb itself as there is insufficient space for everybody to use the school’s car park.

The other day, Hannah was knocked off her feet by one of the parents who had quickly swung the passenger door open without realising that Hannah was on the kerb about to walk past the car and into the school. Although Hannah was not seriously injured, apart from a few minor bumps and grazes, there has been an increasing number of cases of this kind of incident occurring since the school’s capacity was increased by an additional 50 pupils last year and I am very concerned that there may be a far worse injury or accident to one of the children or their parents, if nothing is done about this soon.

I hope you can find the time to visit the location during one of these busy periods to see for yourself just how serious the problem has become and can, subsequently, lobby some of your fellow members of parliament to support a change in the law regarding curbside parking near schools.

I would be very interested in hearing from you with regards to your views on this matter and what you might be able to do about it.

Thank you in anticipation of your help.

Yours sincerely,

Mrs. Tracy Baines