PeterE wrote:
Realistically you can only have fencing on major routes where there is no parking and no requirement to set down or pick up passengers, or make deliveries to premises.
It's not at all suitable for normal urban streets, except for short stretches opposite footpaths and school gates.
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Speed cams aint the ideal solution to road safety - but we get em.
Road safety seems to be about treating all, not some,drivers as idiots and all pedestrians as angels.
Why not treat pedestrians the way that drivers are treated - we cannot be trusted to drive without breaking the law - pedestrians jump off the pavement / jay walk - we don't see ped cam - probably because they could'nt be traced ( and the huge outcry), another good use for redundant partnership employees- so we fence them in -a cheap solution to seperating ped and car - initially expemsive - but look at the saving in nhs costs -
Oh sorry thats the way the anti car lobby think.
If we can't persuade them to co -exist , then we could at least give them a taste of how we are treated - fine them £60 for jaywalking/ walking out without looking, and a lot more for misusing crassings - walk straight on ,get halfway across , then walk off at an angle.
OK, JUST MUSING, you never know in todays atmosphere some crank might think it a good idea.
( imagine it as a pig)