"Mait001" wrote in message
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AIUI the whole point is to force both pedestrians and drivers to switch
their brains on. That can only be good can't it?



Sadly, increasing numbers of both appear to have no brains to switch on,
and
the 2 forms of traffic (foot and wheeled) need to be kept apart by as
sensible
means as possible. This has been, for about a Century (or longer in some
places) by means of kerb and bollards. Why reinvent the wheel now?

Pedestrians and drivers need to know their demarcation: pedestrians on the
pavement, vehicles on the road. Simple. Straightforward. Each knows where
he
can and can't (or shouldn't) go. Why make life impossibly difficult for
all
those that are too stupid to make these decisions for themselves?

In an age of dumbing-down, this invention of "choice" seems a retrograde
step,
and will inevitably lead to those incapable of making the right choice to
make
the wrong one.


What is the point in arguing against a scheme that is working perfectly well
elsewhere? Are you suggesting that the people of the UK are in some way less
intelligent or able to to adapt than the people of Holland? Or are you in
favour of further dumbing down?

Look upon this as a first step in despatching Nanny back to the Nursery.