For years the road islands in Lionel Road have been made almost impossible to pass due to parked vehicles too close to them and the large amount of light vans often parked in the road. They are usually on the west side and obscures the view to pedestrians. The east side is usually less obscured. Most ordinary vehicles are now much wider than when these measures were first installed and the simple thing is that it has become more hazardous to negotiate these.The position of the speed humps and the angle that some vehicles have to negotiate them to avoid parked traffic means that vans can 'lean' into parked vehicles and clip them. A particular problem for slab sided Ambulances and flat bed light vans.It is simpler, safer and more prudent to negotiate the islands from the other side.This is very different to those who choose to drive too fast and use the wrong side of the road in it's entirety, particularly motor cycles.The camera cannot distinguish drivers using prudence and those who are being reckless.I wonder just how many have been fined unfairly?Similarly this has been a long standing issue in Clayponds, not least because of it's decades old dire road surface. But a few years ago the police were out stopping anyone who went the wrong side.Amusingly, when they left they found their transit van could not get round a parked car at the very next island - They drove the wrong side.Police and Ambulances even when not on calls almost always go the wrong side because it's a safer manoeuvre.The changes carried out have made it a bit safer and less likely.
Raymond Havelock ● 2869d