Hats off to whoever it was at North Lincolnshire Council who thought to site the tarmac traffic hump in Old Courts Road directly outside the entrance to the Boyes store.
This raised area of road surface seems to have turned itself into a crossing without the zebra stripes.
As drivers slow down for the hump, they spy shoppers waiting to cross from the footpath near Boyes and give them an indication to cross.
Near this point in Old Courts Road someone (else?) has created a gap in the wooden fencing that surrounds the car park so Boyes' customers can get to and from the store without having to make a detour via the main car park entrance which is some distance away.
Suggesting the council might make the traffic hump near Boyes into an official crossing would surely be a bridge too far. Would it require giant lights on tall poles like those on the Bigby Road zebra, near Nisa Local? Would there need to be an array of white and yellow lines on the approaches to the crossing? Would the official status of Old Courts Road (not being an A, B or C road) make it legally possible to install a zebra crossing?
No, things are working just fine as they are. Leave well alone and let the traffic hump outside Boyes continue the good work. Earlier today we pulled up in the car, on the approach to the unofficial hump crossing, and let a mum and her two young kids across from Boyes to the car park.
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