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In Rotherwick Hampshire on a lovely b type road in the middle of nowhere, on one side of the road is a little protrusion into the road. 'Give way to oncoming traffic' in one direction is indicated and often you sit waiting while the oncoming vehicle goes past and there's nothing else around. Perhaps it is to promote comeraderie as we wave thanks to the other driver and shake heads at the useless bit of road furniture. The road was fine before this thing was put in.
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Council justifying its existence, they have to keep finding things to do or they are out of a job!
Or possibly to give wildlife a better chance to cross the road!
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Our council has an alternative approach. They cut buses forcing an increasing number of people into cars. This increases congestion thus reducing traffic speed!
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Council justifying its existence, they have to keep finding things to do or they are out of a job!
Or alternatively there's a long standing issue of through and/or local traffic going too fast across end of residential driveways etc.
Chicanes as described force them to slow down.
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Council justifying its existence, they have to keep finding things to do or they are out of a job!
Or possibly to give wildlife a better chance to cross the road!
That's not as daft as it sounds, in Chislehurst not far from me, Canadian Geese cross the road between Ponds, instead of flying one jumps into the road when the road is clear and stands there waiting for about a dozen more to cross the road
amazing to watch as they are so alert as they cross, in fact pedestrians could learn a thing or two from the way they cross
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It's a thirty mph already, the sight lines are good and in 27 years of going down that road I've never seen even a hedgehog squashed which is good any sort of accident despite loads of cyclists using it. This area is full of "why?" road furniture.
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There you go then--Jobworths- keeping the office and road gangs in constant employment.
Probably takes them months to complete any one project and the signs what about the SIGNS here in Wales they are twice the size as the English ones and Welsh language first!
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Streetview of, fittingly, The St, shows the calming measures. My guess is the locals, whose houses are quite nice, don't want chavs speeding past. One property must be the residence of the local MP as it has a duck house in the pond.
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Streetview of, fittingly, The St, shows the calming measures. My guess is the locals, whose houses are quite nice, don't want chavs speeding past.
That's the usual reason for traffic calming!!
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There you go then--Jobworths- keeping the office and road gangs in constant employment.
Probably takes them months to complete any one project and the signs what about the SIGNS here in Wales they are twice the size as the English ones and Welsh language first!
They probably think some don't take notice of small signs so make sure drivers can see them, my only problem with Welsh signs is Welsh is the first wording so by the time you've tried to read that you've missed the English words lol
I know a few drivers that have said the same thing. when you mention it to Welsh people they think your mad :)
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<< when you mention it to Welsh people they think you're mad :) >>
Not mad, just biased .... :-)
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Council justifying its existence, they have to keep finding things to do or they are out of a job!
Or possibly to give wildlife a better chance to cross the road!
That's not as daft as it sounds, in Chislehurst not far from me, Canadian Geese cross the road between Ponds, instead of flying one jumps into the road when the road is clear and stands there waiting for about a dozen more to cross the road
amazing to watch as they are so alert as they cross, in fact pedestrians could learn a thing or two from the way they cross
They have one that acts as a lolly pop gender neutral person its nice to watch when you're not in a rush
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With the pinch point is there a sign with the big white arrow and the little blue one and the big one offering priority? Took me ages to work these things out and I still have doubts when I see the things. Also how far away is the oncoming car , how fast is it going and do I have time to beat him to it!
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I've got pinch points in my road. Parking's a nightmare, don't know why as we've all got drives. Couple of houses have extended over their drives, but planning permission meant they had to provide a second parking place in their front garden - of course they don't use it.
Deliveries and house removals are the worst problems. We've petitioned the council to remove the pinch points, but they say the majority of residents want them. Don't know who, as a straw poll indicates the opposite.
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