On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 11:51:40 -0000 (UTC), Jethro_uk
wrote:

On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 11:38:34 +0000, newshound wrote:

On 25/03/2021 21:58, T i m wrote:
I started to hear a regular 'clonk-donk' as cars were driving over
something in the road, like a bit of chipboard shelf but it then
persisted for around a couple of weeks.


You've reported it so you have done your civic duty. Someone mentioned
expanding foam. If there is a reasonable gap in places, how about a
generous injection of No More Nails or similar. On a dry night, when you
are sure no-one is watching.

And risk a charge of criminal damage ?

Yeah, in an 'ideal world' someone doing something temporary that has
good effect and is fully / easily reversible isn't generally an issue.
However, it's when something (even if unforeseen) goes wrong and worse
some one (rather than thing) gets damaged, then they will quickly look
for scapegoats.

A concrete filled cone to make cars avoid it might have more impact ...

I see what you did there ... ;-)

I mentioned the 'desire line' the vehicles often took near the manhole
in question (that brought them in contact with the manhole when
traffic on either side of it should theoretically miss it). This
'desire line' is so strong that recently someone reversing out of a
parking bay (not a good idea etc) reversed into the offside of a
passing car that *should* have been on the other side of the road. It
made quite a bang and made a mess of both vehicles (even at ~25 mph).

I felt sorry for both drivers (in as far as the outcome was concerned,
wrong time wrong place etc) because the guy shouldn't really have been
reversing out onto a live road (and are often doing so blind when
bordered by SUV's / Vans etc), but very few seem to (want to) reverse
*into* these 90 degree parking bays ... and for the other driver being
reversed into who may well have got away with it if he wasn't
following the 'desire line' and was on the right side of the road. I
believe the Highway Code allows you to 'make full use of the road',
but only when it's safe to do so?

Cheers, T i m