Not likely to improve anything given the (Rightly) entitled way that pedestrians cross the road. They also made an effort to play by the rules but it was simply not safe due to the aggressive driving when people were on crossings/ coming out of junctions.
I don't think that's outside the realms of possibility
Yep, hence why I said "potentially uncharacteristically". I try to be careful about how I phrase things, as I am just stating my observations.
Surely the answer is build a another foot bridge over the A444, no need for road closure,or is that too simple.
You would think but by the time everybody has poked their nose in it will be six months of road closures and about £10 million. Not the best example look at the bridge in Nuneaton you could have built it in gold for the time and money it took with health and safety this and that.The work on lifting the bridge in place can be done overnight.
How about a zip wire?Surely the answer is build a another foot bridge over the A444, no need for road closure,or is that too simple.
Hopefully not by me using their roads to try & beat the queues
Could charge for it as wellHow about a zip wire?
Or the HS2 junction at Stoneleigh but I still
It was built for a different era!
Pedestrians would still either chance it or be stuck there, needs stewarding or a good old copper on traffic duty.
It was a bloody stupid idea to my mind, and one which was partially observed when introduced but probably forgotten by most now. However common sense should be applied by pedestrians as well as drivers - claiming priority isn’t all that much use if you are dead,
Why is the entitled way that pedestrians cross the road right? They are rightly entitled when the lights are in their favour, and not when the lights are indicating not to cross. I’m not sure that the pedestrians crossing the road at other places or ignoring lights are playing by the rules at all.
It’s the most sensible Idea so will never happen.Surely the answer is build a another foot bridge over the A444, no need for road closure,or is that too simple.
Pedestrians just stepping out to cross at side street junctions is dangerous. I think getting pedestrians to pause there until there is a clear crossing is sensible and is how it had been for my 53 years of driving. It is an entirely safe approach.
It's a bit of a zero sum event really,I agree it's alien to think differently after such a prolonged spell, but this is the current world we live,and it doesn't require one side or the other to implement it and, it's just the direction of travel, it's changing whoever gets elected IMO?
it would be pretty disastrous if it was the pedestrians that implemented it and the motorists that didn’t. It’s a rule that isn’t being policed, like fucking e-scooters and cyclists on pavements. When did it become acceptable to ride bikes on footpaths?
Driving for 54 years and never had an accident. I’m not sure what you are basing your views on, I wonder how many posts I have made which could possibly lead you to that conclusion. I am very attentive when I’m driving, and you are right that drivers cutting across into side streets without looking is dangerous - whatever the supposed priorities are. I would also suggest that pedestrians stepping out in to the road without looking is equally dangerous for them.
It hasnt
Wheelright Lane is out of the road closure area and looking at that fine for street parking
This has been going on since start of the road closures. It’s about time it was stopped, there’s plenty of highway staff hanging around who could easily stop it.
Just thought I’d flag this up in case people park there. Wheelwright Lane is in the restricted zone. Several cars were ticketed on Saturday. As were several on St. Giles Road (only the first 100 metres at the top).
www.coventry.gov.uk
First trial they coned off both sides of the road and there was nearly a punch up between the highway staff and some discovery driving idiot who decided he was more important and moved them.
Wheelwright lane is inside the no parking zone?
Yep. tickets on several cars last Saturday. And St Giles Road.
You can park in the bottom part of St Giles road by the church as it's outside the boundary not at the top .
