itschampionman wrote:
Mad Moggie wrote:
PeterE wrote:
itschumpionman wrote:
The vegetation as I know it usually sits still.
Drive to the conditions and only pull out or manouvre when you can see your way.
Might it not be better if the highway authorities actually bothered to trim the vegetation so road users could see their way better?
Or would road safety be improved if drivers had to use blinkers?
Chumps - trimming hedges equates to duty of care. If hedge is overgrown at T-junction and you have to edge forwards to see past it - that is dangerous to all road users.
Similarly - the have obligation to ensure speed limit lollipops are clealry visible and not hidden behind foliage - as as been seen on one road in LanCASH£re
I agree entirely with trimming hedges and ensuring that visibility is maximised but motorists and members of forums such as this are always ready to look about feverishly to find an excuse for their poor driving and for something else to blame for their accident.
The driver has a "duty of care" and this is more immediate and relevant than drivers blaming local authorities and highways maintenance for their own shorcomings.
It is also entirely wrong to suggest that signing is being deliberately covered up or omitted to catch out the motorist. Your comments regarding destroy any credibility you think you may have.
Not saying they are deliberately trying to catch out the driver - merely pointing out that if there is an obligation to ensure these lollipops are clearly visible at all times.
It is not good enough to allow foliage to overgrow to such extent that signs become invisible. There are one or two such overgrown hedgegrows here in Cumbria - and these obscure the lollipops too.
Similarly - we pay enough taxes to pay for maintenance of hedgegrows and road surface repairs (am I alone in noting increase in pot holes and worn through road surfaces here?).
All have responsibility for ensuring safety. I am responsible for crossing the road in manner which does not endanger myself and others, just the same as my responsibility when I am driving my car, riding my bikes, or even my horse! I am also responsible for ensuring that my children are borught up to do likewise.
By this same token - like yourself, our Paulie, IG and everyone else in country - I pay out great wadges of my hard earned dosh in direct, indirect, stealth and other daylight robbery - aka taxation
This. so I am led to believe, is supposed to be used for providing a number of services as required by a modern, civilised and successful state. These services - in accordance with government obligation of duty of care - include basic road safety measures such as repairing the roads, cutting hedges, providing policemen on patrol....
Er - remind me again what we actually get .... OH YES! A speed camera! No proper driver education adverts, pedestrian education adverts, little incentive for numptiies to improve either, NO trafpols, overgrown hedges and road surfaces which make old Stasi German road surfaces appear smooth and sleek.
Attention to above shortcomings would do much towards instant improvement on the roads if implemented tomorrow ...