On 16 Oct 2004 "Dave Liquorice" wrote:

On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 10:33:30 +0100, Richard Porter wrote:

The ones I don't like are the completely unnecessary pinch points,
build-outs and slalom courses which are just plain dangerous.

Only if you are going to fast (that old chesnut). Having lived on a
busy straight, treelined, broad, road that was nothing more than
normal 1930's housing area road. Cars would travel at 40 to 60mph down
it, despite the 30 limit. The platforms and pinch points have brought
the upper speed down to a much more acceptable but still illegal
40mph.

No its not that I'm going too fast, though with some of the slaloms
they set up it's a great temptation to treat them as such. There's a
good one coming into South Mimms! A few years ago our council put in
build-outs on alternate sides of a road to slow down the traffic and the
accident rate went through the roof. They had to rip the whole lot out
again at great expense to the council tax payers.

I can't see the point of forcing alternate line traffic. It just causes
unnecessary delays, aggravation, noise and pollution.

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Richard Porter
Mail to username ricp at domain minijem.plus.com
"You can't have Windows without pains."