Wiggly white lines in Clevedon

[mcpoot]

markymarkthree said:

PF62 said:

mcpoot said:

So who pays for this complete waste of money? Not the pig headed councillors who pushed it through you can bet on that.

Nope, it will be the idiots that voted for them last time, and will vote for them again next time despite this.

All the Clevedon councilors that voted for this joke have since been voted out by us locals.

I'm sure PF62 will be along shortly to apologise for his slur.

[markymarkthree]

mcpoot said:

markymarkthree said:

PF62 said:

mcpoot said:

So who pays for this complete waste of money? Not the pig headed councillors who pushed it through you can bet on that.

Nope, it will be the idiots that voted for them last time, and will vote for them again next time despite this.

All the Clevedon councilors that voted for this joke have since been voted out by us locals.

I'm sure PF62 will be along shortly to apologise for his slur.

I doubt it but would be very nice to be wrong.

[CoolHands]

To be fair those who didn’t vote them back in aren’t idiots by his definition, so no harm no foul!

[mcpoot]

Council leader quoted as saying

"Implementing the recommended changes would depend on whether they were supported by the public, and whether the council could find the money for the estimated £375,000 price tag for the scheme. We haven’t got half a million pounds, or the best part of, sat around waiting to be spent on this.”

Mmm, is that because you blew £1.3 million (£1 million over budget) on this folly? You've got to admire the brass neck of councils.

[PF62]

markymarkthree said:

mcpoot said:

markymarkthree said:

PF62 said:

mcpoot said:

So who pays for this complete waste of money? Not the pig headed councillors who pushed it through you can bet on that.

Nope, it will be the idiots that voted for them last time, and will vote for them again next time despite this.

All the Clevedon councilors that voted for this joke have since been voted out by us locals.

I'm sure PF62 will be along shortly to apologise for his slur.

I doubt it but would be very nice to be wrong.

You do understand of course that the decision in Clevedon was made by North Somerset Council, not just the Clevedon councillors...

Although the idiots in Clevdenon who voted for the councillors that supported this might have had a sudden Damascene conversion and chosen a different set of councillors (although are they any better...), has the rest of the idiot electorate across North Somerset also seen sense and not continued to elect the same people again?

[markymarkthree]

Looks like a bit of peaceful peoples power wins the day.
Hopefully the seafront will be be back to how it was. Almost.

An update regarding Clevedon Seafront.
North Somerset Council
·
This afternoon our Executive agreed to progress changes to The Beach in Clevedon following an independent review.
The changes include:
➡ Reintroducing sea facing parking
➡ Keeping the one-way system with a contraflow cycle lane
➡ Removing the two-way cycle path and wavy line
➡ Installing loading bays and a coach drop off point
➡ Adjusting the roundabout to provide a standard mini roundabout
➡ Improving pedestrian crossing points
➡ Introducing vehicular access to the Promenade for boats and ice cream van
➡ Repositioning the planters
➡ Improving lining and signage to support the one-way system.
Watch the meeting back at on our YouTube channel at https://youtube.com/live/5luEpvnPmZw 📱💻
You can read the report which was considered at the meeting at https://n-somerset.moderngov.co.uk/ieListDocuments...
Work could start in the autumn.

[tt601]

markymarkthree said:

Looks like a bit of peaceful peoples power wins the day.
Hopefully the seafront will be be back to how it was. Almost.

An update regarding Clevedon Seafront.
North Somerset Council
·
This afternoon our Executive agreed to progress changes to The Beach in Clevedon following an independent review.
The changes include:
? Reintroducing sea facing parking
? Keeping the one-way system with a contraflow cycle lane
? Removing the two-way cycle path and wavy line
? Installing loading bays and a coach drop off point
? Adjusting the roundabout to provide a standard mini roundabout
? Improving pedestrian crossing points
? Introducing vehicular access to the Promenade for boats and ice cream van
? Repositioning the planters
? Improving lining and signage to support the one-way system.
Watch the meeting back at on our YouTube channel at https://youtube.com/live/5luEpvnPmZw ????
You can read the report which was considered at the meeting at https://n-somerset.moderngov.co.uk/ieListDocuments...
Work could start in the autumn.

And yet they have no budget to apply for TROs to be able to endorse the yellow zig zags outside of primary schools.

Sorry kids you’ll just have to continue to step in the road around those builders vans blocking the pavements /zigzags

[Tony33]

The latest North Somerset debacle is a bus lane where no one thought it was needed, is stupidly short and mucks up the junction so the lanes for cars face each other and the right turn for the airport blocks the route for traffic going straight on.

If that isn’t enough after months of disruption the bus lane is too narrow and the bus drivers refuse to use it! Locals observed the road was never wide enough before it was built.

[juice]

Is that nr Brockley Coombe ?

[Scrump]

That looks similar to the one recently painted on the A369 near the Beggar Bush Lane junction.
Absolutely pointless.


I have heard that the 2+ lane at the M5 end of the A369 will become bus lane instead. There is only one bus every 30 minutes on that road (so I have been told).

[Tony33]

juice said:

Is that nr Brockley Coombe ?

yes

[Red9zero]

And they have just started one in Congresbury too.

[Red9zero]

Tony33 said:

The latest North Somerset debacle is a bus lane where no one thought it was needed, is stupidly short and mucks up the junction so the lanes for cars face each other and the right turn for the airport blocks the route for traffic going straight on.

If that isn’t enough after months of disruption the bus lane is too narrow and the bus drivers refuse to use it! Locals observed the road was never wide enough before it was built.

I particularly like the cycle lane in the middle there. Although they may as well use the empty bus lane.

[devnull]

They're trying to stuff a bus lane into the roundabout system into Clevedon now. I cannot fathom what goes through NS Councils minds.

[tt601]

devnull said:

They're trying to stuff a bus lane into the roundabout system into Clevedon now. I cannot fathom what goes through NS Councils minds.

Perhaps it is……

[Red9zero]

Petition against the Brockley bus lane. Tbf if there is a queue there I use it as an excuse to call into the farm shop for a pastie

https://www.change.org/p/remove-the-brockley-bus-l...

[Tony33]

According to bus drivers on the route the issue isn’t just the width being inconvenient but the lights at the bus lane actually delay the bus most of the time so they don’t use it!