No who dunnits for safer roads ambassador
Armourguard’s Safer Roads Ambassador has a great record for nabbing cheeky parkers thanks to her band of well-informed spies.
Based within Wellington’s Parkwise team, she is the region’s school parking ambassador. Her job involves sorting out the before and after school vehicle scrum around Wellington primary schools, which is no easy task.
“People dropping off kids try every trick,” she says. “They ignore the five minute parking zones, stop on broken yellow lines and the lazier ones will even drive over the top of the orange road cones to get their kid that few inches closer to the school gate!”
Rather than taking a confrontational approach, she prefers to act as a parking ambassador and encourages parents to move of their own accord. Some ignore or abuse her and get a parking ticket for their trouble.
But that’s no problem thanks to some great help from road patrol kids at each school.
“Parents realise I don’t know them and therefore think they can get away with it, but the road patrol kids know who they are and are more than happy to tell me!”
Based within Wellington’s Parkwise team, she is the region’s school parking ambassador. Her job involves sorting out the before and after school vehicle scrum around Wellington primary schools, which is no easy task.
“People dropping off kids try every trick,” she says. “They ignore the five minute parking zones, stop on broken yellow lines and the lazier ones will even drive over the top of the orange road cones to get their kid that few inches closer to the school gate!”
Rather than taking a confrontational approach, she prefers to act as a parking ambassador and encourages parents to move of their own accord. Some ignore or abuse her and get a parking ticket for their trouble.
But that’s no problem thanks to some great help from road patrol kids at each school.
“Parents realise I don’t know them and therefore think they can get away with it, but the road patrol kids know who they are and are more than happy to tell me!”
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