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And not a shred of hi viz
And not a shred of hi viz among them, I’ll bet.
One great thing about drivers
One great thing about drivers is their understanding of what things cost. – massive road scheme ideas a flung around like confetti. I’m out of touch these days myself as it was the 1990s that I had an Area Highways Panel to administer. Requests for new crossings arose all the time and the improvements budget hardly went anywhere. It will run into a few £10k to supply, erect, mark out and connect a Zebra crossing.
“Sometime over the weekend (November 12 and 13), a car ploughed into the bollards and light column on the traffic island. “Had this happened on a school day the consequences could have been dreadful,” Mr Hodgson argued.
I expect it was an e-bike.
Calls for new crossing near Bath school after car ploughs into bollards
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/local-news/calls-new-crossing-near-bath-7823769
How cars stole the
How cars stole the Remembrance Day Parade.
The Royal British Legion are taking a stricter line with their local branches as a result of this incident or one like it in 2018:
“AN ARMY veteran from Warwickshire is fighting for his life after being hit by a car at a Remembrance Sunday parade.
Ade Stowell volunteered as a marshal at the centenary event in Studley and was clearing away closed road barriers when the accident happened.”
It sounds like there was an insurance claim made and paid.
This conversation must be being had in every community that has a tradition of a Remembrance Day parade. They seem to have managed OK in my village this year with our fairly simple parade route. Whether they’re complying with the RBL line, I don’t know.
District Councils and police cannot deploy personnel to multiple locations simultaneously . Town and Parish councils have no powers to make road closures – the community org mentioned in the article would have needed the district council to effect this if required. It may also depend on the happenstance of where your cenotaph is located e.g. in a park.
More broadly, although there are lots of willing participants and helpers, everything, like PA equipment, signage, the wreaths, public liability insurance all has to be organised, found and usually paid for. It’s usually the Council that has inherited the upkeep, and even updating of the war memorial.
I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that in large measure cars did this.
No Remembrance Day Parade in Kingswood after disagreement over who is responsible for it
Is it a Royal British Legion event or a civic event?
“The wreath-laying at the town’s Cenotaph took place as usual, followed by a church service at Holy Trinity Church in Kingswood, but there was no parade due to a row over road closures and public liability insurance.”
“South Gloucestershire Council maintained its position that the responsibility for organising the road closures and insurance connected with the event lies with the Royal British Legion, but the RBL nationally – and the Kingswood branch – maintain local authorities should take on the ownership of the logistics and legalities as they regard them as civic events.”
“Parades with road closures did happen in Yate and Staple Hill, where a local community organisation took on the responsibility of organising the legal issues around insurance and road closures.”
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/no-remembrance-day-parade-kingswood-7819203
Cllr Stuart Hughes, Devon
Cllr Stuart Hughes, Devon County Council’s Cabinet Member for Highway Management said: “ The changes we are proposing will not only reduce the risk for road users along Station Road but are intended to help reduce congestion along Exwick Road and St Andrews Road.”
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/speed-limit-could-raised-exeter-7824861
The Bilston Triangle. Dozens
The Bilston Triangle. Dozens of reports over years of Audis, Volvo XCs, BMWs and Range Rovers disappearing inexplicably. You couldn’t make it up.
Mum fined for leaving Truro
Mum fined for leaving Truro car park late after stopping to feed her crying baby
Carmen Thompson says if she has to go to court, then so be it
ah yes, the “child in the car/ no rules apply to me” number
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/mum-fined-leaving-truro-car-7813918
BMW smashes through window of
BMW smashes through window of home in two car crash in Selly Oak
West Midlands Fire Service were called to the scene on Warwards Rd in Selly Oak
Car collides into a house in
Car collides into a house in Swanage ‘smashing’ into the brickwork
“could happen to anyone”, say the commenters, road layout, innit. .
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/23123027.car-collides-house-swanage-smashing-brickwork/
If that was a Welsh speaking
If that was a Welsh speaking petrol pump doing £1.35/litre, drivers would figure it out with no issues.
Fowey masterplan: Plans to
Fowey masterplan: Plans to pedestrianise Cornish town centre in summer ditched
I guess the elderly and disabled of Fowey can rest easy in their beds now.
As with all these things, a grown-up is eventually going to have to sort it out and it will have gotten worse by the the time they do.
This is the moment when
This is the moment when drivers reach the “huh, cyclists want us to go back to the horse & cart” stage.
Brixham traders warn of
Brixham traders warn of ‘catastrophe’ if ring road closes for four months
Eyes down for a Kubler Ross Grief Cycle: “Children will be unable to get to school. Nurses will be unable to get between home and Torbay hospital. Staff will be unable to commute into our members’ businesses.
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/brixham-traders-warn-catastrophe-ring-7810868
Will someone please think of
Will someone please think of the drivers?!
I’m getting a paywall.
I’m getting a paywall.
No chance of any cycle access
No chance of any cycle access while all this is going on, I don’t suppose?
How can there be an increase in the number of hard-pressed motorists when all are already?
Do you mean Even More Hard-Pressed? The car, the economic Alamo.
Jeremy Hunt doesn’t seem to be expecting to win any popularity contests with the autumn statement.
Bournemouth Council are “cancelling Christmas” (not yet, but I can feel it coming now we’ve had Remembrance Day; we’re actually at the “slap in the face for traders” stage) by not giving drivers ? their annual free parking boost that they’ve come to expect.