On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 23:20:28 +0100, "John Rowland"
wrote:

"Jack Taylor" wrote in message
...

Have any of these traffic planners ever been out to observe
the potential carnage that they are inflicting upon road users?
Even the construction companies installing them reckon that
they are lethal and more dangerous
than installing simple, cheap speed humps.

What would the construction companies know?

Every traffic measure is monitored by the responsible authority six months
before and after its installation. If they were lethal, they would not be
still installing them.

Well they are still using 6 inch wide overbanding between the 3 strips
of tarmac on the A6 out of Derby at Allestree golf course.
Successfully Murdered about 6 people in the 80's so they dropped the
speed limit to 30 from 50. Then painted diagonal white stripes all
over the middle of the road, then they stuck bollards down the center
too. But the excessive overbanding is still on the carriageway - just
where most people place their offside wheels. One little dab of the
brakes when it's just damp and the car steers like a tank! No offside
braking at all so it does a 90 degree turn straight up the verge.
they have moved all the lamp posts 20ft back from the road. The one I
hit is still bent after 20 years - they moved it back along with all
the others.

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