The meaning of raised areas of road

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Thu 15 Jul 2004 13:02
The meaning of raised areas of road - Mapmaker
Increasingly, large bits of road in urban areas are raised to pavement level. Sort of like speed humpts but bigger. Do they mean:

a) That they are pedestrianised areas and so pedestrians should have right of way (as pedestrians seem to think - and blind people cannot feel the edge of the pavement).

b) Nothing.

c) An easier place to kill a pedestrian who has assumed it is not a bit of road.

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Thu 15 Jul 2004 13:11
The meaning of raised areas of road - just a bloke
All of the above.....

and none of the above....

Why on earth would you expect anything done on our raods to make sense?

;) JaB
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Thu 15 Jul 2004 13:12
The meaning of raised areas of road - AngryJonny
d) We've got a bit of spare budget, so we're going to use it to find yet another way to irritate drivers, and then increase council tax by 25% next year regardless.




Boy am I getting cynical in my old age.
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Thu 15 Jul 2004 14:12
The meaning of raised areas of road - Stuartli
I believe it may have something to do with the general drainage of surface water in the particular area - but this is not written in stone.
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Thu 15 Jul 2004 14:23
The meaning of raised areas of road - Altea Ego
or brick

And what about the slightly raised brick type surfaces round smallish roundabouts? are they to be used to drive on or what?
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Thu 15 Jul 2004 14:25
The meaning of raised areas of road - Stuartli
So many drive on them on the roundabout at the top of my road that, after two or three years' use, the surface has had to be completely relaid.
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Thu 15 Jul 2004 15:18
The meaning of raised areas of road - Cliff Pope
There is a theory ("Woonerf", pioneered in Holland) that if you blur the distinction between road and pavement, everybody takes more care.
In reality it is a job creation scheme in which millions of bricks are inadequately laid on sand, to be squashed and dislodged by heavy shop delivery lorries. Rainwater, which used to run harmlessly away down things called gutters, now sits in puddles because there is no camber and nowhere for the water to run.
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Thu 15 Jul 2004 15:33
The meaning of raised areas of road - Garethj
It means that the 4x4s are no use, and you need something more like this:
www.dukefarm.com/images/hazzard/binder/rare5.jpg
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Thu 15 Jul 2004 15:38
The meaning of raised areas of road - Adam {P}
A new type of speed bump has emerged round these parts. Not house bricks but the ones you would use to block pave your drive. Well. These are set into the road but are raised about 2 inches out of it. Apart from the "let's see if we don't pop our tyres" every time we drive over them, they look ridiculous. Fortunately the council haven't cottoned on they've created another rat run as there is a series of little side streets you can drive down to avoid them all!

mwahahah
Adam
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Thu 15 Jul 2004 16:24
The meaning of raised areas of road - Stuartli
This link may explain some of the reasons:

www.dft.gov.uk/stellent/groups/dft_roads/documents...p

www.cheshire.gov.uk/Environment/Engineering/majorp...f (Nantwich Road piece)

www.highwaysmaintenance.com/failtxt.htm

Fascinating subject this - spent at least 57 seconds reading it all up.
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