A workman was attending to the traffic lights on Barnard Avenue a few days ago leaving us to wonder whether North Lincolnshire Council just might have heeded suggestions to alter the settings.
Not so - judging by the situation this morning when traffic waiting on the A18 (in both directions) was held up by red lights while no cars at all were waiting to exit either Old Courts Road or Wesley Road, where green lights were showing.
Meanwhile, the traffic islands/road humps on Glebe Road continue to prove annoying, especially at weekends when so many residents' cars are parked along the street. Road safety specialists will doubtless point out these 'measures' are effective in slowing traffic, but the vast majority of motorists using Glebe Road were never guilty of speeding. All they wanted to do was get from one end to the other in a reasonable time. Now, even with the removal of the school, that's not always easy.
Yeah bu' !
ReplyDeleteI recall the residents saying that some drivers were speeding (in the sense of going too fast for the conditions)and that they wanted some traffic calming methods AND a suitable traffic flow system as either side of Glebe Rd was packed with parked cars, esentially making it a single lane.
I also recall that the residents were consulted with the result being the two chichanes and the road bumps.
I think the problems now are that some residents didn;t realise that the chichane were of th size they are, thus depriving the road of valuable car parking spaces and some residents are complaining that bumps make cars rattle, which is annoying.
Everying costs money....but would making Glebe Rd one-way help ...no need for the chichanes then, yeah bu', were back to cost.
Is it a case that impulsiveness has taken over initial thinking?