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Live opposite a primary school. Catchment area is tiny, less than a mile IIRC, yet over half the kids arrive by car (usually SUV). Folk rent a flat here, get their kids in, then move back to where they came from (more than a mile away) then drive everyday.
In the ten years I've been here its gone from very small numbers by car, to over half (and school has been rebuilt and doubled in size). Never used to bother me but this last year has been mental, enough content to field a decent TV docu series with.
My fav's are the ones who rock up in an SUV, 'park' in the middle of the road blocking all traffic so henry can get out and walk 2m to the school gate, then drive away using all of the speed. End of day, same person will park fully on a pavement or grass area and leave engine running to charge their phone, they'll be there for 45 minutes, occasionally engine revs up slightly (I assume its the AC knocking on and off) then turns off, then they force it back on (phone still needs charged you know!), until henry turns back up after school and then their off again. Rinse and repeat with a few hundred of these wankers a day and you soon get pretty fed up.
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Idling just seems like something so easy to fix. There's no benefit to the driver to leave the car idling. It just seems like learned behaviour, as does the indignation when told to turn off.