Need to make a dangerous road safer - how??

Strider590

Just to reiterate....

OP You need to very careful what you wish for, if this gets redirected as being a speed problem, you could find yourself with speed bumps outside and large trucks crashing over them all night long. The council will then refuse to do anything, because they've done exactly what was asked (even though they themselves may have misguided the investigation to suggest speeding as a the cause)........ Your home will be devalued and you won't get a wink of sleep.

reeac

Strider590 wrote: »

You must have great roads where you live.....

Some of the road junctions around here are pure "leap of faith" situations and I can think of countless misleading road signs.

I've encountered a few junctions where the visibility is so poor that the best that you can do is to lower all the car windows and listen hard for approaching traffic.

mikey72

We've got hedges, walls, everything you can think of to block views round here. Some junctions all you can do is push the nose of the car out, if you can't hear the squeal of brakes and tyres it's safe to go. Decent low speed limit, and good enforcement is the answer. As strider says, avoid speed bumps, we got build outs, so traffic is reduced to one direction at a time, and it works beautifully. (Apart from the odd motorist who doesn't like stopping at the giveway, or tried to drive over the bollards going too fast, and they're quite funny). Kerb stones were changed at the same time to very solid, high, square blocks, so anyone that attempts to drive up them shreds the sidewall, and rips lumps out of the alloys. (Used to be a problem with parked cars, overtaking forced the car coming the other way up the pavement, where they happily drove with 2 wheels on at about 30, now they can sit nose to nose until one backs up)