traffic calming near me - safe? erm...
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There's a high school near me. Running along side it is a road, about 1/3 mile long, set out in an S. Half way along this, and just after the main vehical entrance to the school is a speed bump, which resembles a path with disabled access to be honest. you can take this at 15, or 30 is you don't mind being thrown up in the air and angering your suspension.
However, there are 2 'give way to oncoming traffic' protrusions on the S bits, positioned so that as you approach them you are effectively on a blind bend. They force you into the path of oncoming traffic that you can't see. For a couple of days now, i've noticed that if you were compromised, the only place to go would be on the path, and guess who's walking on the path? - 5 - 8 year olds walking to the primary school next door!.
These things, in my opinion are pretty damn dangerous, and cause congestion on morning, and in the middle of it, little kids and their mums trying to cross the road.
The only accident I ever remember is where a car drove straight across the crossroads at one end (the stop sign has vanished and the council never replaced it - you can't see that it's a crossroads unless you know the road) and hit a kid on a pushbike going across her.
The speed of traffic is in fact much higher now - people trying to make up time for having to slow for the hump, and the higher speed is exactly where you don't want it - on these blind bend things.
Safe - who knows. Expensive - very.
However, there are 2 'give way to oncoming traffic' protrusions on the S bits, positioned so that as you approach them you are effectively on a blind bend. They force you into the path of oncoming traffic that you can't see. For a couple of days now, i've noticed that if you were compromised, the only place to go would be on the path, and guess who's walking on the path? - 5 - 8 year olds walking to the primary school next door!.
These things, in my opinion are pretty damn dangerous, and cause congestion on morning, and in the middle of it, little kids and their mums trying to cross the road.
The only accident I ever remember is where a car drove straight across the crossroads at one end (the stop sign has vanished and the council never replaced it - you can't see that it's a crossroads unless you know the road) and hit a kid on a pushbike going across her.
The speed of traffic is in fact much higher now - people trying to make up time for having to slow for the hump, and the higher speed is exactly where you don't want it - on these blind bend things.
Safe - who knows. Expensive - very.
corozin said:
I wonder what qualifications you need to have to be a Council Road Engineer?
More than you need to be an IT Manager or IT Consultant
Sorry. 
Maybe the question should be "What qualifications do you need to be a Councillor who sets policy and tells the technical officers what to do"?
Answer - none whatsoever...
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