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Ignoring the local roundabout that has over 20 traffic light posts (for cars, pedestrians and cyclists) and the thousands of cycle path signs (presumeably used 99% by locals who know their way) and the cycle paths that suddenly come to an end on the narrowest and most dangerous stretches of road, we have a bus lane (with all the signs and road markings)on a by-pass which avoids 3 local villages. Strange really since the buses all go through the villages and no bus route goes along the by-pass. Needless to say, it causes great queues at rush hour but it hasn't yet dawned on our traffic experts that it is a complete waste of money.
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My LA has just spent a fortune on cycle paths. What defeats me for the very few bikes I see on (the roadside) path I see about three on the parallel road...
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Our council recently wasted nearly £100,000 on an abortive scheme to close a road nearby.
The original reason for the closure, with keycard-operated rising bollards for emergency services, was to stop the road being used as a rat-run.
This is a public road that has (and still is) been paid for many times over by the motorist. However, after much protest, because of the traffic congestion created (surprise surprise), the scheme was scrapped.
£100,000 of taxpayer's money down the drain. Any accountability? There doesn't seem to be any.
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It never ceases to amaze me that a councillor can sit on a highways committee and yet have no knowledge of driving, or motoring law, or not even be required to hold a driving licence. These people (with a few honourable exceptions, in my experience) dicate the misery that us motorists have to put up with with no thought, beforehand or afterwards and it annoys the steaming doodah out of me!
Cheers
Rob
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And whilst we are on the subject of stupid bus lanes, there is one in Woolwich which actually causes me a huge inconvenience. A one-way road meets a major road (Shooter's Hill, just before the Ha Ha Road lights - why the heck is it called Ha Ha Road????) At the top of this road, the traffic is segregated. On the nearside is a bus lane, on the offside is 'normal' traffic. Both of these lanes are attempting to turn left. And every single bus that exits this bus lane then has to turn right at the lights ahead. So I have to not only give way to the traffic that is turning left out of the one way road at the same time as me (it is to my right after all) but I then also have to force my way across a lane of traffic to turn right.
Sigh.
Rob
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CM:
They just haven't a clue have they?
I believe that , eventually, everybody is accountable for their actions, & they'll all pay the price.
Just glad I'm not a road planner...
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Can't anyone just become a councillor? Stick yourself up for election and use that as your vote winner. If you get in then you can do something about what irks you. They only do what they do because they get in at the next election and most people don't bother to vote anyway.
Mine has just resurfaced the road this morning (in less than a few hours). Shame everywhere is now being pebbled dashed with loose chippings but it does look a lot better. There aren't many bus lanes if any within the borough and traffic congestion isn't that terrible. In nearby stoke there are but the lanes allow buses to do shortcuts and cross over the middle of the one way system rather than having to go all the way round which I think is a much better way of doing things. The only real bottle neck is the route into the town centre which can be backed up. But traffic lights have been stuck on the large roundabout where the A500 goes across and the traffic jams have pretty much disappeared as everyone can get on and off the roundabout without much bother. I suspect it is only snarled up during rush hour but it used to be snarled up most of the day so I think it has improved things.
teabelly
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Our council recently wasted nearly £100,000 on an abortive scheme to close a road nearby. The original reason for the closure, with keycard-operated rising bollards for emergency services, was to stop the road being used as a rat-run. This is a public road that has (and still is) been paid for many times over by the motorist. However, after much protest, because of the traffic congestion created (surprise surprise), the scheme was scrapped. £100,000 of taxpayer's money down the drain. Any accountability? There doesn't seem to be any.
James, This wouldn't be in Dorking by any chance would it because it sounds remarkably like a recent waste of money by our local council.
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Makes you want to scream doesn't it? Come the day of reckoning & all the imbeciles responsible for wasting public money will be at the front of the queue...
Do you mean the imbeciles which you voted into power?
Because it most likely isn't the officers who have to deal with all the rubbish from councillors and the public.
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