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Side-road zebra crossings

New style side-road zebra crossing without belisha beacons pops up close to the Department for Transport HQ.  Nice. Hopefully the civil servants and ministers using this every day will feel the urge to have them everywhere. 

Paul Campbell ● 5d8 Comments

Talking of thick, aren't you a driver Campbell? Has the missus found your meds yet?

N V Brooks ● 3d

The road should be narrowed to get rid of the flared entry and make drivers slow down when turning in and it should also, as you say, have a raised table, plus new style zebra crossing. Every road should get this treatment to dismantle the dominance of cars over public space.

Paul Campbell ● 3d

I'd prefer it to be a raised table there too.Interesting that the Dept of Transport feel that pedestrians need a crossing in order to cross the road there. I hope they are filming it to see what happens.

Philippa Bond ● 3d

Because it is a trial (another one has been put in recently by Westminster Council in Soho) to make it much cheaper and easier for Local Authorities to install zebra crossings that drill it into the thick heads of drivers that pedestrians have priority crossing side roads. Installing thousands of these all over the UK WILL restore priority of road space to people instead of cars.

Paul Campbell ● 3d

In my view ... that zebra crossing should have a belisha beacon.Ideally it should have a traffic signal too ... with blips ...to notify sight-deficient pedestrians that's it's safe to cross.Why say "good" to such a crazy development?

Jim Lawes ● 3d

Cyclists love Hidalgo the mayor of Paris, most Parisians however thinks she's an absolute bloody disaster and cannot wait to vote her out. She has created economic ghettos and racial ghettos in Paris with her policies of trying to form 15 minute neighbourhoods  I would suggest Mr Campbell that you look at the discontent reports from those trying to access healthcare and education facilities in the ghettos Of at course if you want that for Chiswick so be it. Social unrest beckons.

N V Brooks ● 5d

Only a brain transplant donor would fail to recognize that vehicles have become exponentially cleaner in the past 17 years The center of Paris is still a traffic gridlocked shithole having been there recently nothing much has changed apart from the same amount of traffic squeezed on to fewer and fewer streets. Hidalgo is a bloody disaster.

N V Brooks ● 5d

Also "cycle lanes cause pollution" 

Paul Campbell ● 5d