road width restriction rebuilt, now dangerous. who to whinge to?

Justintime · 10 Jul 2008 at 19:43

This was the original setup, you could make a turn off of the intersecting road without any problem and the actual barrier was more than 2m.

This road is on a business/warehouse area and the barrier is probably to stop trucks coming down the top road which always has parked cars. Then one day someone decides to break the old barrier down, close the road for a week and cause major congestion, plus put the barrier CLOSER to the intersection thus making it impossible to do a clean turn into it, you have to go to the wrong side of the road if you wanna make it without reversing a little or scraping your car to heck. The problem this has caused is not only inconvenience, its a right danger as cars coming from the top road and turning left could go smack into anyone trying to do a turn, which has happened twice afaik, however both were minor from what i heard. Apart from that, they've decreased the width to 2m and now smaller lorries etc.. that previously made it are now coming to our residental roads with speed bumps and tearing up the place + causing a lot of noise, so far one car has been smacked into by a lorry.

The drawings are awful i know, not to scale

but the original barrier was a lot wider than it is now.

Whom would i complain to? The council perhaps? Whats the chances in your opinion anything will come of it? :rolleyes:

Werewolf · 10 Jul 2008 at 19:49

local council roads department, assuming it's not on a "private" road.

not that they are likely to do much if they are like the ones round here...

Justintime · 11 Jul 2008 at 12:07

Got mommy to complain as i don't live there so they are not my council

Malt_Vinegar · 11 Jul 2008 at 12:22

I really cant make out what the heck is going on from those pics, or the description, so perhaps put a road name, so we can google maps it, and see the old design for ourselves

Justintime · 11 Jul 2008 at 14:37

Its easy really

The road barrier was further from the turn as seen in the original masterpiece, then they made it narrower and put it right by the junction/turn so you can't do a clean turn if you're going that direction. Its solid concrete too so if you hit it your car is gonna be bruised.

Justintime · 11 Jul 2008 at 14:50

Not sure why the google image dosen't show the old barrier, how old are those images??! The outline is there though, odd.

Malt_Vinegar · 11 Jul 2008 at 15:13

Oh, i seeee.
Maybe just take it a bit slower, and you wont have to swing out?

*edit* Oh, and WTF is that light blue/silver car with the sunroof doing

(on brantwood road, lef hand side of the picture)

*Double edit" Another car doing the same thing if you carry on south down grange road?! Odd!

Justintime · 11 Jul 2008 at 16:03

My drawings do it no justice, theres no way you're making a clean turn there unless you're on a bike. I think those cars are turning around. I just realised the old barrier is there, just that it blended with the road colour.