All posts tagged: DropOff

Stansted: Another UK airport hits drivers with higher drop-off prices

Stansted: Another UK airport hits drivers with higher drop-off prices

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Stansted Airport has increased the cost for drivers dropping off passengers at its terminals. Motorists stopping for 15 minutes or more will face a £28 fee, while those staying for under 15 minutes will be charged £10, marking a £3 rise from previous rates. Drivers exceeding 30 minutes in the terminal area risk a £100 Parking Charge Notice, which can be reduced to £60 if settled within 14 days. A £28 charge applies to vehicles re-entering the car park within 30 minutes of their initial entry. Blue Badge holders are entirely exempt from all these new fees. A spokesperson for Stansted Airport said that the move would aim to “manage congestion at the terminal and reduce ‘kiss and fly’ traffic, which is a major contributor to road congestion around the airport”. Motorists stopping for 15 minutes or more will face a £28 fee (Getty/iStock) It …

Every Morning My Son Shuts Down At Drop-Off — And I Can’t Reach Him

Every Morning My Son Shuts Down At Drop-Off — And I Can’t Reach Him

In the car, he’s a chatterbox. He kicks his legs, narrates the passing world, asks about pipes in buildings and whether vacuum cleaners live inside walls, laughs at his own jokes. And then we pull up to the school. The door opens, cold air slips in, and something in him folds.  His eyes turn glassy. His body droops. He won’t look at his sister or at me. She leans forward and says, “Poka, Roma!” our little Russian goodbye, soft and cheerful. I say, “Ya tebya lyublyu, Romachka,” I love you, my little Roma. And from him sometimes I get a whisper of “poka,” so quiet it barely exists outside his breath. It happens every day. The shift is always the same. Every morning, I watch something in him recede. Not a different child appearing, but the same one quietly closing a door only he can see. The drop-off is where reality shatters through every illusion I had that morning.  When he walks away, I feel like I’m staring into an abyss I don’t have the language …

Trump-Administration Officials Describe an Elementary-School Drop-Off

Trump-Administration Officials Describe an Elementary-School Drop-Off

Based on how members of the Trump administration rushed to describe Renee Nicole Good, the Minneapolis woman who was shot and killed in her minivan while protesting ICE, as a “domestic terrorist,” a “professional agitator,” and an “anti-ICE rioter” behind the wheel of a “thousand-pound missile,” here is how they might describe her dropping off her son at school just before she was killed. The terrorist drove a 4,000-pound guided missile to deliver her small associate to the rendezvous point. She pulled up to where dozens of others just like her were also making their sinister deliveries at “School.” (An ominously short, unpatriotic name for any building. Where is the “Trump”?) Their tiny accomplices climbed out of the rolling weapons, carrying bags on their backs full of scribbled writings—Codes, perhaps? Or manifestos?—in crayon and pencil and Magic Marker. Some of them were armed with Uncrustables, suspicious, round, sandwich-like objects full of jelly and peanut butter. (Deadly biohazards!) Others had juice boxes. Despite the snow on the roads, these terrorists were out in force in their …