Keep left signs
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BigBob said:
........but in this instance I do believe the central refuge is the best for the most vulnerable party in this instance - the pedestrian.
If there are more suitable alternatives then I'd be interested to hear about them. I'll even put them forward to local councils but you have to consider cost implications and effectiveness.
One alternative might be to educate children that roads are DANGEROUS and they should be paying attention to what's going on around them. Roads ARE NOT play areas, football pitches or somwhere to skateboard.
We occasionally see adverts on TV telling youngsters to keep off railway tracks, don't play around electricity pylons etc - never seen one yet telling kids not to play in a busy road.
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What about the mobile phone one where the kid walks out between parked cars, that gets aired a lot lately ?
>> Edited by vonhosen on Monday 1st May 22:38
BigBob said:
One alternative might be to educate children that roads are DANGEROUS and they should be paying attention to what's going on around them.
My sentiments EXACTLY, stop hounding the car drivers EDUCATE THE CHILDREN. In my younger days (circa 56-60) we had the police come to our school once a year, and put on a good display with their nice black Wolsey police cars.
They used to floor it, zip across the playground, and jump on the anchors, the object was to demonstrate the stopping distance of cars. When my daughter was younger, she was for ever walking out into the road, with the attitude "Dad, I can hear if a car is coming", I grabbed my 30m tape measure, measured out 75 yards to show her the stopping distance of a car, she was gobsmacked to say the least.
Not only the children either, an awful lot of adult pedestrians have absolutely no concept of the highway code as it applies to them.
7db said:
I grabbed my 30m tape measure, measured out 75 yards to show her the stopping distance of a car, she was gobsmacked to say the least.
Because a 30m tape measure could cover 75 yards?
EEeeee ... them were't days! We used t'get a 30m tape from t'hardware shop n it'd easy me'sure 75 yards. Tell kid's that these days n the' just don't beleeeve yer!
7db said:
I grabbed my 30m tape measure, measured out 75 yards to show her the stopping distance of a car, she was gobsmacked to say the least.
Because a 30m tape measure could cover 75 yards?
For yards, read feet, whooooopppppppppppsssssssssssssssssssss.
The tape incidently was a 100ft job, just trying to convert to mtrs for our newer readers, metrification hurts the little grey cells sometimes.
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