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So is the assumption that buses don't have accidents so they don't need slowing down but cars do?
In my local town a pedestrian was killed by a heavy lorry. The council's reaction was to install square speed bumps. Now cars have to negociate these humps at slow speed both day and night. However the heavy lorries, which can straddle the humps, speed along with oblivion. Whenever they come up behind a slow moving car they tailgate with flashing headlights. Does this make the road safer?
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Actually they are narrow enough for both ambulances and buses to pass over without touching them
In my local town a pedestrian was killed by a heavy lorry. The council's reaction was to install square speed bumps. Now cars have to negociate these humps at slow speed both day and night. However the heavy lorries, which can straddle the humps, speed along with oblivion. Whenever they come up behind a slow moving car they tailgate with flashing headlights. Does this make the road safer?
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As I said in my ealier post I m not saying they are the right or wrong way to slow traffic. I actually think the islands were a better idea for slowing the traffic - despite peoples opinions of them - if you were driving within the speed limit and concentrating they were perfectly visible both during the day and night, but read the letters in Skyport concerning these!
I 'assume' the council or whoever designs these things thinks that 'professional' drivers should know better than to speed? But we all know thats not the case, in the same way that professional pilots also break the rules sometimes...
I live in a village with an A road through the middle, shops, houses and pubs with doors all opening on to a narrow pavement next to it. It has a 40 mph limit - as a conservative estimate the average speed throught the village is around 60mph, when the bikers and boy racers are passing through I would think their average speed is around 90 mph - but we aren't allowed humps or cameras and the police are apparently disinterested... I ve lived here for a little over 2 years now and there have been 4 fatal and numerous injury accidents within a mile of each end of the limit in that time. And can count on one hand the number of times there has been a speed trap here.
I m not defending BAA but imagine the outcry had they installed yet more speed cameras.....
PW
As I said in my ealier post I m not saying they are the right or wrong way to slow traffic. I actually think the islands were a better idea for slowing the traffic - despite peoples opinions of them - if you were driving within the speed limit and concentrating they were perfectly visible both during the day and night, but read the letters in Skyport concerning these!
I 'assume' the council or whoever designs these things thinks that 'professional' drivers should know better than to speed? But we all know thats not the case, in the same way that professional pilots also break the rules sometimes...
I live in a village with an A road through the middle, shops, houses and pubs with doors all opening on to a narrow pavement next to it. It has a 40 mph limit - as a conservative estimate the average speed throught the village is around 60mph, when the bikers and boy racers are passing through I would think their average speed is around 90 mph - but we aren't allowed humps or cameras and the police are apparently disinterested... I ve lived here for a little over 2 years now and there have been 4 fatal and numerous injury accidents within a mile of each end of the limit in that time. And can count on one hand the number of times there has been a speed trap here.
I m not defending BAA but imagine the outcry had they installed yet more speed cameras.....
PW
