Dave Plowman (News) expressed precisely :
Councils tend to have to spend a set level of money. Come the end of the period and the need to use it or loose the money for next year, they tend to use it on silly projects.
One such was a very annoying chicane installed just down the road from me. They put it in, took it out again, put it in yet again then found the entire section of road had to be dug out to install new services. I'm not quite sure whether it is there or not at the moment, but either way it is a tremendous hazard to vehicles....
A single chicane at the bottom of a hill, with road slopping down to the chicane from both sides. The one side with a long clear view of the chicane is the direction intended to give way. The side with no clear view of the approach due to a slight bend, has right of way.
Those intended to give way approach at speed, in the hopes of getting through before something comes round the bend to stop them. Surely the side with poor visibility ought to be the direction giving way....
Once the traffic just sped quietly by, with never an incident. Now there is a regular squeal of brakes as someone mis-times it and a I dare say the occasional contact.
RoverOLD ROVER ----------- Now I've owned an old Rover for many a year And driven the roads without any...
Bureaucracy and planning departments gone power mad. It makes you wonder if they do actually spend any time thinking these things through, or whether they just invite a contractor to build one where it suits the contractor.
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Regards, Harry (M1BYT) (L)
