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This is what cyclists waste tax payers' money on
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news...mned-12216449?
£500,000 to make a road look like a roundabout to "confuse drivers" so they slow down for a non-existant roundabout. I've got news for you psycholists. Confusing drivers is a BAD and DANGEROUS idea. -- Flanders and Swann on MOT tests: Our car is getting a bit old, it'll have to be tested soon. You know they started these tests for 10-year-old cars, they brought it down to six, now five, they'll bring it down to three. There's even been some talk of having them tested before they leave the factories." |
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On 03/02/2017 17:16, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news...mned-12216449? £500,000 to make a road look like a roundabout to "confuse drivers" so they slow down for a non-existant roundabout. Where does the £500,000 come from. It seems a lot to spend on a few bricks. Presumably someone on the council's "mate" got the contract? |
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On Fri, 03 Feb 2017 17:24:40 -0000, Nick wrote:
On 03/02/2017 17:16, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news...mned-12216449? £500,000 to make a road look like a roundabout to "confuse drivers" so they slow down for a non-existant roundabout. Where does the £500,000 come from. It seems a lot to spend on a few bricks. Jeremy Clarkson said so in today's Grand Tour episode. Jeremy never lies. Presumably someone on the council's "mate" got the contract? Probably. There can be no other reason for councils constantly re-doing things that were fine. -- Exersize: the act of removing excess baggage |
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On 03/02/2017 17:24, Nick wrote:
On 03/02/2017 17:16, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news...mned-12216449? £500,000 to make a road look like a roundabout to "confuse drivers" so they slow down for a non-existant roundabout. Where does the £500,000 come from. It seems a lot to spend on a few bricks. Presumably someone on the council's "mate" got the contract? That's the sort of money that such "improvements" cost. No private developer would pay that sort of money, even for exactly the same work done, but with councils, the price doesn't matter. AAMOF, $500,000 for that probaly isn't as bad as some schemes. There used to be a (real) roundabout at the junction of The Strand and Chapel Street in Liverpool. It worked fine. About 40 years ago, it was replaced by a complex set of traffic lights because the roundabout was letting the traffic through too freely. Even in the 1970s, uprooting the roundabout, leveling the plot, installing new and differently-positioned storm drains (think about it), re-routing the pedestrian footways and erecting the lights and control boxes cost about £3,000,000. |
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On Fri, 03 Feb 2017 18:27:38 -0000, JNugent wrote:
On 03/02/2017 17:24, Nick wrote: On 03/02/2017 17:16, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news...mned-12216449? £500,000 to make a road look like a roundabout to "confuse drivers" so they slow down for a non-existant roundabout. Where does the £500,000 come from. It seems a lot to spend on a few bricks. Presumably someone on the council's "mate" got the contract? That's the sort of money that such "improvements" cost. No private developer would pay that sort of money, even for exactly the same work done, but with councils, the price doesn't matter. AAMOF, $500,000 for that probaly isn't as bad as some schemes. There used to be a (real) roundabout at the junction of The Strand and Chapel Street in Liverpool. It worked fine. About 40 years ago, it was replaced by a complex set of traffic lights because the roundabout was letting the traffic through too freely. Even in the 1970s, uprooting the roundabout, leveling the plot, installing new and differently-positioned storm drains (think about it), re-routing the pedestrian footways and erecting the lights and control boxes cost about £3,000,000. That was done in Kincardine, Scotland, twice. Traffic lights --- roundabout --- traffic lights. -- Whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed. |
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On 04.02.2017 06:16, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
****wits. Thanks greatly for that esteemed accolade from YOU After all I ride a bicycle, a very convenient delightful economical viable means of transport, and we all know that YOU think bicyclists are the ****witted pits of humanity. I really feel complimented by that, because YOU said it. It really is a very great compliment to be called a ****wit by YOU. Especially by YOU. And I have no ****ing interest in looking good in YOUR eyes. |
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This is what cyclists waste tax payers' money on
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news...mned-12216449?
£500,000 to make a road look like a roundabout to "confuse drivers" so they slow down for a non-existant roundabout. Quite a few drunk drivers might spend 30 min. in that "loop" before they had to stop and take a **** and then pass out in the front seat. We need to get more public safety advantages like this here in the U.S.! Is there a patent? There are all kinds of road interchange patents. I've got news for you psycholists. Confusing drivers is a BAD and DANGEROUS idea. Humans, being naturally lazy, will do whatever is easiest. Here the easiest thing to do is to confuse drivers. Of the 4 billion cyclists on the planet, not one would ever get confused by some brick work. Bret Cahill |
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On 06/02/17 04:02, Bret Cahill wrote:
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news...mned-12216449? We need to get more public safety advantages like this here in the U.S.! I was surprised in my recent visit to the land of the automobile how well your junctions work for pedestrians (on top of having more courteous drivers (*)). The physical details of junction connections and driver control are more similar to mainland Europe, than to the UK. Walking through UK residential areas, towns and cities is, in many ways, less well provisioned. (*) Does the US have a system of presumed liability? |
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On Mon, 06 Feb 2017 04:02:05 -0000, Bret Cahill wrote:
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news...mned-12216449? £500,000 to make a road look like a roundabout to "confuse drivers" so they slow down for a non-existant roundabout. Quite a few drunk drivers might spend 30 min. in that "loop" before they had to stop and take a **** and then pass out in the front seat. We need to get more public safety advantages like this here in the U.S..! Is there a patent? There are all kinds of road interchange patents. I've got news for you psycholists. Confusing drivers is a BAD and DANGEROUS idea. Humans, being naturally lazy, will do whatever is easiest. Here the easiest thing to do is to confuse drivers. Which will cause accidents. I often see two cars trying to get through a narrow chicane at once, as there's often no priorities. Of the 4 billion cyclists on the planet, not one would ever get confused by some brick work. They'd trip over it and fall off. -- Life is a sexually transmitted terminal condition. |
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On 06/02/17 14:58, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Mon, 06 Feb 2017 04:02:05 -0000, Bret Cahill wrote: Humans, being naturally lazy, will do whatever is easiest. Here the easiest thing to do is to confuse drivers. Which will cause accidents. I often see two cars trying to get through a narrow chicane at once, as there's often no priorities. It's of no consequence when two incompetent drivers take each other out without involving anybody else. |
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