Five crashes on Drayton Hall Lane blamed on new traffic calming measures
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- čas přidán 23. 04. 2017
- A £75,000 project to make Hall Lane in Drayton safer is being blamed for five crashes in just three weeks. The Parish Council called for an emergency meeting with the Norfolk County Council today. Kristina Brinkley reports.
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I guess at £75k for two bollards - the councillor who signed it off definitely in the same lodge as the builder or a blood relation at least!
Priority signage MUST be used on this sort of traffic calming enforcement and also street lights should also be used. There is no keep left signs either. The bollards are not done with reflective paint or markings. There is no road markings. No wonder there have been so many accidents. Anyone getting into an accident need to bring this to court. The council should be held accountable
Invisible wood posts raised kerbs and in the dark all you see is 2 HALFORDS reflectors. This must be 100% illegal!
@@chrishart8548 ha ha
Pro tip: don't drive faster than what you can see
council: theres just no money to fix the pot holes....
council: oh look we have 75 grand to spend quickly. lets build a death trap!
Technically....they could have done much worse.
Ever hear of "Woodmere Avenue Width Restriction"?
The work has been done to stop traffic using a normal road in a safe way. Imagine this debacle in thick fog with no street lights.
That looks really really dumb
I am glad the residents here aren't against the traffic calming, but are interested in lighting it, increasing signage, etc. in order to make it even safer. Excellent!
Why have roads at all? Stop vehicles - stop trade and deliveries - Let’s make life as difficult and costly for motorists as we can? I mean the audacity these drivers have to actually use these roads for the purpose they were built i.e to get safely from A to B - no, let’s put obstacles in the way for the unwary to crash into - that should teach them, did they think the obscene amount of money it costs to run a car today that things would be designed to help the motorist - not a bit of it
Roads are actually safer with traffic calming. Traffic calming helps to reductions help reduce accidents and deaths. Especially for pedestrians and cyclists. Bad drivers need to pay attention to the road.
They had to spend all that money before the end of the financial year ?????👍👍👍👍
No wonder my council tax has gone up👎👎👎
So part of his reasoning is they had to spend the money before the end of the year or they lost it?? Heaven forbid…
Nice bit of wood for someone's log burner.
Imagine how many accidents there would be if someone stole the posts ! Just a raised kerb in the middle of the road at that point!
@@chrishart8548 A lump of wood with a small reflective sticker doing no good. We have these all over where i live but with illuminated bollards and still they get wiped out all the time.
@@chrishart8548 Kerbs should not be in the middle of a road to start with.
Dude...5 accidents , someone's gonna get badly hurt , or dead ..
Rip it out and ask those responsible
What were you thinking ... do it again..properly , at your own cost
Maybe drivers should pay attention? Good lord. You kids are clueless about traffic calming to reduce speeds and make drivers actually pay attention.
@@lopoa126
Maybe drivers should pay attention
Man killed in accident
Maybe drivers should pay attention
Family left bereaved
Maybe drivers should pay attention
Children severely injured , parents dead
Maybe drivers should pay attention
More deaths and injuries on the way.
Maybe drivers should pay attention.
If that is your response and the only way you can rectify this situation , then I'm pleased you're not a person of influence..
There's at least 4 ways of doing this , i can think of , that don't involve acc8dents ...
But they choose this.
And idiots like you , are OK with it.
When your family, like mine , is killed in some badly thought out deathtrap waiting to happen .
Then write back ..
You'll see once someone has paid with their lives , it will then be removed
As a car driver and cyclist I can understand the need for traffic calming measures. The real issue is, traffic has nowhere else to go. Just observing all those cars bunching up is not traffic calming, its a recipe for bringing out the worst in drivers. There needs to be another arterial road or highway to carry the load or preventing land developers from building certain types of properties that generate such traffic in the wrong part of the countryside.
Stupid counsellors, and how could it cost £75,000!
My cycle commute has become considerably more dangerous thanks to this truly baffling and potentially lethal piece of traffic calming.
Sadly truly baffling and potentially lethal seems to fit more often than not as a description of road layout changes and the likes of the last few years. Never seems like the people who design them ever actually drive them or have any care as to the quality of their work.
This traffic calming and road furniture is being laid all over UK (and Europe) absolute nightmare, and useless.
I cant see any houses on that road .....dangerous waste of our money
These look quite tame compared to some extreme traffic calming measures we have here in the Netherlands.
So I don’t understand what you brits are complaining about.
Oh we just love a good moan. That and queuing.
That is stupid
What the hell......someone defo pocketed that money. Probably paid the poor sod £900
So in other words nothing will be done and it will stay as it is.
These councils are nuts. You put these idiots in charge and they act like idiots. Most of these councillors have no experience.
Has to be probably the stupidest most dangerous road "safety" scheme ever! I honestly worry about who ever designed it! Someone will die either a cyclist because oncoming cars are forced into their path or on the narrowed hill brows where vehicles are squeezed together and can't see oncoming traffic.
windomaker . I wonder if the person who designed this would be happy to cycle it or to see their loved ones attempt it. A truly baffling and potentially lethal stretch of road.
What’s it like now?
Break up all the asphalt into rubble. That'll slow em down
Oh.. and try reading The Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016
No direction arrows.. tut tut..
Typical bureaucratic mindset: spend other people's money to create pointless deathtrap while pretending to "solve" a problem that didn't need solving.
Dohh!
That took 5 weeks to complete is a real joke. such a low effort job. But Im optimistic, this was designed by an Intern and was a 2 man physical job with minimum equipment that totaled £75,000
Uk is gone to the dogs
council is run by fools
Everyone commenting on a 5 year old video like it's a recent thing. Weird how this hit the CZcams Algorithm but people need to check the dates on videos more.
Its not a rat run. Its a public highway that any taxed and insured vehicle can use.
And uninsured
Council Clowns
You have to wonder how those two small road islands and a couple of wooden logs cost £65k...
Do we think some one is ripping off the taxpayer....))
Think of the damage to the environment from mining the materials, refining them, transporting them and installing them, then the damage to the environment from maintaining them.
Then there's the damage to the environment from cars just sitting there (even if electric cars become ubiquitous, they still have to have their systems running, along with possibly air con or heating, and the energy has to come from somewhere).
These chicanes will contribute to killing far more people (and other species), and the councils and government have the cheek to install them _and_ ask us to go green?