I do hope that this directive to judges will not be portrayed as motorist-bashing by the sort of twat who goes around vandalising speed cameras. It will do for now, but I think the whole classification needs to be re-thought. At the moment there are offences of ‘careless driving’ and ‘dangerous driving’. Given that even […]
Entries Tagged as 'Traffic'
Crawley in bloom
June 30th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Life
Crawley Council usually put on a fine display for the Britain In Bloom competition with hanging baskets everywhere and troughs of flowers on the railings in the middle of the roads. Maybe its a bit over-the-top, and surely adds to the tax burden, but who really wants to live in a colourless place? This year […]
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Turn left
June 12th, 2006 · 5 Comments · Life, Politics
That last post about Cheals roundabout reminded me about the recent mad scheme from John Redwood about ‘improving’ traffic – the one about allowing left turns at red traffic lights. It might work back on his planet, but I can’t see it working here. Ok so they do it in America, but America has very […]
Cheals Roundabout
June 12th, 2006 · Comments Off on Cheals Roundabout · Life
What has happened to Cheals roundabout? All those lovely bushes have gone and all that is left is a couple of trees and the Cheals display shrubs. It looks so bare now. All I can think is that it was either a financial decision, which would be unfortunate, or for safety reasons, which would be […]
Seeing the Sultan’s Elephant
May 7th, 2006 · 3 Comments · Life
I have been looking forward all week to seeing the Sultan’s Elephant up in London. It even overshadowed the elections in my mind a bit – lets face it there are elections every year but the chances of getting to see another 40-foot high, time-travelling mechanical elephant again are pretty slim. Jayne and I took […]
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Safer driving
April 4th, 2006 · Comments Off on Safer driving · Life
A report by the Transport Research Laboratory is suggesting that young drivers should have various restrictions placed on them in order to reduce fatal accidents (and non-fatal ones too I suppose). The restrictions include having new drivers not carrying passengers younger than 21 and not driving at night. Without reading the report itself, or the […]
NHS funding problem solved?
March 20th, 2006 · Comments Off on NHS funding problem solved? · Politics
Just compare these two stories. The first talks about the NHS deficit of £799 million. The second talks about the failure to increase fuel duties in line with inflation for two years running, and probably again this year. Each time this happens the loss of revenue is approximately £600 million per year. I am assuming […]
Disabled parking bays
March 18th, 2006 · Comments Off on Disabled parking bays · Life
Today I saw a beautiful sight. I was at the Broadfield Barton shops and saw one of the council’s community wardens Range Rovers parked up there. As I came back to the shops I saw the wardens themselves checking all the cars in the disabled parking bays to see if they had proper disabled badges. […]
Across the river
January 2nd, 2006 · Comments Off on Across the river · Life
Today was the day we paid our visit to my family in Essex. We may have picked the worst day of the year to do this: the most direct route is via the M25 and the Dartford Crossing, which means we caught the queues for the A2 (people going to Bluewater) and the queues for […]
Another road death in Crawley
November 21st, 2005 · Comments Off on Another road death in Crawley · Life
If you live outside the Crawley area you probably did not see this story about a 13-year-old boy who died in an accident yesterday on the A23. The police say they are not releasing his name until tomorrow, but everyone here in Broadfield seems to know who it is. He was at Broadfield East Middle […]
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