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The other option is to raise the crossing (like an extended speed bump) and add rumble strips.
I should bloody well hope so! How much does some get paid to stand in the road for a couple of hours every school day?
Thank you for your email expressing your concern regarding road safety along Upper Tollington Park and Victoria Road.
I sympathise with your concern and can assure you that the council regards road safety as a high priority and actively promotes road safety measures across the borough to reduce vehicle speeds, the number of road traffic accidents and to enhance the environment for all road users.
As you will be aware, the junction of Victoria Road and Upper Tollington Park currently has double yellow line waiting restrictions to prevent obstructive parking. In view of your concerns however I will visit the junction to confirm if the existing restrictions are of sufficient length to provide suitable visibility for motorists emerging from Victoria Road onto Upper Tollington Park.
With regards to your report of speeding, we acknowledge that this is a problem on a number of roads in the borough. Working in partnership with the Police we have purchased 3 new laser speed guns to enable the Police Safer Neighbourhoods Teams to carry out speed enforcement initiatives at identified locations. I will add Upper Tollington Park to our list of locations. I am also pleased to inform you that Upper Tollington Park has been identified for the introduction of two vehicle activated signs to further encourage speed reduction. An investigation is currently underway to find suitable locations that offer the greatest road safety benefit and the signs will be installed by the end of May.
It's now the end of May and I can't see any signs.....
Personally I think a raised crossing is the surely the way forward - it will educate everyone coming up and down the road to start to slow down or take out there own sumps. i don't think warning signs are really going to cut it...
A half-island and raised crossing would do wonders.
I do stop for pedestrians at that crossing (and others) when I'm driving but unfortunately being on a small motorbike some drivers behind me tend to ignore my reason for stopping and overtake despite the fact that I'm 'claiming my lane'. On some occassions I've felt that it might be safer for the pedestrians if I don't stop as they might start to cross only to be met by one of these people that only have wheels for brains.
Another thing.
Why do they seem to drive faster and more carelessly when it's raining? Do they think their cars will shrink in the wet? (like their brains)
I'm not over wary of traffic at all normally but honestly, it really is frightening using this crossing when you have kids with you. Near misses seem to happan all the time.
I think part of the problem is that the crossing is in the middle of a very gentle S bend and with the parked cars, drivers can't see pedestrians until quite late. But it doesn't help when they are doing 40mph.
I normally disapprove of speed bumps, speed cameras etc (our road is really quiet and only about 100 yards long but still had 3 totally unecessary speed bumps fitted recently) but in this case I think something like that really has to be done.
My entry is 'Slow down you ****s'
Short but sweet.
<a href="http://www.images-graphics-pics.com/signs/sign-generator/simple.asp?text=SLOW+DOWN+YOU+C**T&align=Center&align2=Middle&fontsize=24&font=signage&color=black&transparency=255&color2=orange&watermark=&move=0&move2=&parody=&rotate=&allow=6080&left=&right=&up=&down=&pic=Center-Lane&x=87&y=60&w=168&h=129">http://www.images-graphics-pics.com/signs/sign-generator/simple.asp?text=SLOW+DOWN+YOU+C**T&align=Center&align2=Middle&fontsize=24&font=signage&color=black&transparency=255&color2=orange&watermark=&move=0&move2=&parody=&rotate=&allow=6080&left=&right=&up=&down=&pic=Center-Lane&x=87&y=60&w=168&h=129</a>;
The other problem is that, if it's a permanent sign as against one of the speed-activated ones, it's also going to be insulting drivers who are not doing anything wrong, and personally, that sort of thing inspires me to misbehave out of sheer spite. "You called me dog before you had a cause..."
I think they were fined £800. The accident at Victoria terrace was horrible boy-racer stuff. Interesting to see a street party there being advertised elsewhere on this site.