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People! The area south of Kirkaldy and around the Sportsplex is just full of families. We live here, we walk here, our children play here.  
 
For the love of common decency, please show us some respect and DRIVE WITH CARE!  
 
I was coming home from work today at about 6PM and as I came around a corner, I found myself bumper to bumper with someone in a Dodge Ram driving on the wrong side of the road looking for a parking spot instead of looking for pedestrians or other vehicles.  
 
It's only a matter of time before someone is injured by this kind of carelessness. Please drive sensibly and think about how you would like the same type of careless driving in YOUR neighbourhood.

The no stopping zone signs along the south side of Kirkcaldy are just straight up ignored when practice is on people just park wherever on the grass, shoulder, even halfway up the dike. Gets absolutely bonkers when everyone is leaving, no clue how a kid hasn't been run over yet...  
 
Cops/bylaw could easily write 50 tickets a night.

I've phoned the city police for this issue several times. I thought the would have put this on their daily check list by now. They must be waiting for someone to get run over first.

I called the police about parking by Meadows school and they said that they need more people to call in and complain about the drivers but they did make a presence around the area more for a few days ( never seen so many frazzled parents). Maybe, if more people call in and complain this will get moved up on the priority list. I do agree that it is crazy around that area and people need to be more cautious and follow the law rules. I guess some people feel they are above the law rules and some just don not care. Sad

The only problem is that if cops enforced the "no stopping" there, we would have a lot more cars driving around the residential areas looking for street parking. That's where my concern comes from. Some of these people care nothing about anyone but themselves and their precious children. Somebody's going to get hurt. How about allowing parking in the school lot, or do they already do that?

People will abuse it until they are ticketed for it. Everyone is so entitled these days and rules never apply to them.  
 
What really boggles my mind is there is always open spaces in the sportsplex lot as well as kirkcaldy school lot that the people on south could easily be using rather than parking in no parking zones. The distance is barely any different considering you have to walk to the walking bridge anyways to access from kirkcaldy drive to enter the field area.  
 
While on entitled topic, why are people bringing their dogs to the fields. There is a no dog policy on Brandon school properties, it was reiterated at the teams meeting that there is to be no dogs allowed. I'm sure your dog is a perfect dog that doesn't make a mess on fields or bark excessively but there are rules and should be followed.  
 
Edited by Cjford, 2019-05-24 11:32:10

No bylaw officer on after 5:00 pm. So no tickets!  
Contact Jeff Fawcett, the councillor for the area and the city.  
There should no "no parking anytime" signs put up.  
It will take a child getting hit running out between parked cars before anything might be done!