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Bemusement at ‘barmy’ bunch of 60 bollards near Birmingham school
Bemusement at ‘barmy’ bunch of 60 bollards near Birmingham school
menousername said:
Strange thing is its to prevent parking due to the nearby school, but the pavement looks wide enough to incorporate a row of parking, a footpath and a cycle lane. Withiut impacting the lane of traffic
Surely that would have been better
Except the idiots would just also park across the footpath and cycle lane. Surely that would have been better
Sheets Tabuer said:
You can bet your arse the second and third line were added because of knobs going around and driving up the pavement.
^ thisRandy Winkman said:
Whatever the rights and wrongs of having them - are any of them actually in a straight line?
^ and thisIt's endemic.
Witnessed unbelievable levels of fkery when my kids were at primary school. Eldest npw plays football and training is at a school. Specific instructions about drop off/parking/pickup etc. Not a single fk given by anyone.
Much as Birmingham City Council are prone to random acts of lunacy, I'm with them on this.
The road in question is the A38 Bristol Road - the main arterial dual carriageway into the second city. It is *always* busy with traffic, and to have parents mounting the pavement here is an accident waiting to happen.
The specific location is also immediately adjacent to zig zag lines that are there to protect a pedestrian crossing immediately outside the school. This photo on Google Maps is pre the mass bollard proliferation, shows the wide pavements that would be undoubtedly full of cars at drop off and pick up.
https://www.google.com/maps/@52.404126,-1.9798403,...
ETA: the school is on the corner of the appropriately named 'School Close' which has about five non-double yellow parking spaces in it. I expect it is absolute car-nage (pun intended) round here at drop off and pickup but people need to get used to not having parking immediately outside schools.
The road in question is the A38 Bristol Road - the main arterial dual carriageway into the second city. It is *always* busy with traffic, and to have parents mounting the pavement here is an accident waiting to happen.
The specific location is also immediately adjacent to zig zag lines that are there to protect a pedestrian crossing immediately outside the school. This photo on Google Maps is pre the mass bollard proliferation, shows the wide pavements that would be undoubtedly full of cars at drop off and pick up.
https://www.google.com/maps/@52.404126,-1.9798403,...
ETA: the school is on the corner of the appropriately named 'School Close' which has about five non-double yellow parking spaces in it. I expect it is absolute car-nage (pun intended) round here at drop off and pickup but people need to get used to not having parking immediately outside schools.
Edited by PurpleTurtle on Friday 6th January 10:22
PurpleTurtle said:
Much as Birmingham City Council are prone to random acts of lunacy, I'm with them on this.
The road in question is the A38 Bristol Road - the main arterial dual carriageway into the second city. It is *always* busy with traffic, and to have parents mounting the pavement here is an accident waiting to happen.
The specific location is also immediately adjacent to zig zag lines that are there to protect a pedestrian crossing immediately outside the school. This photo on Google Maps is pre the mass bollard proliferation, shows the wide pavements that would be undoubtedly full of cars at drop of and pick up.
https://www.google.com/maps/@52.404126,-1.9798403,...
Flicking between the Google Maps times, also looks like the residents themselves used it as overflow parking. The road in question is the A38 Bristol Road - the main arterial dual carriageway into the second city. It is *always* busy with traffic, and to have parents mounting the pavement here is an accident waiting to happen.
The specific location is also immediately adjacent to zig zag lines that are there to protect a pedestrian crossing immediately outside the school. This photo on Google Maps is pre the mass bollard proliferation, shows the wide pavements that would be undoubtedly full of cars at drop of and pick up.
https://www.google.com/maps/@52.404126,-1.9798403,...
Randy Winkman said:
Whatever the rights and wrongs of having them - are any of them actually in a straight line?
Reminds me of when, shortly after moving in, we had our pavement lowered because the council insisted that the crossover needed to be reinforced to take the weight of a car (we were going to do it anyway but neighbors). At the time, it cost just shy of £1.6k and took six months for the contractors to come out. We continued to use the drive given the garage at the end of it was pre-existing!When the subcontractors got here they were an Albanian mob. Immediately offered another metre of width for £400, "cash, boss". I declined. They finished; the relaid slabs no longer match the pattern in which they were originally laid. Matey didn't want to know and neither did the council.
Within six months of using the 'reinforced' crossover, most of the (new) slabs have cracked. Council still didn't want to know unless they were a trip hazard.
Great Britain.
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