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Post by Shrew_Down_Under on Nov 1, 2010 23:40:09 GMT 1
From the Shroppy Star:
Blog: Smithfield Road changes? Leave it alone Thursday 16th September 2010, Why not go the whole hog and build a subway? Or provide all pedestrians with jet-packs so they can fly across the road? Cyclists could all get baskets with their own ET in so they can do likewise. Rant by David Burrows
[/i][/quote] I think Mr Burrows needs to lay of the coffee
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Post by keithyshrew25 on Nov 2, 2010 21:15:34 GMT 1
It's not dangerous for people fit to drive, so why should it be removed? Really ? About as nonsense a statement as saying there are no dangerous roads just dangerous drivers. Do you ever justify your opinions or just disgree and then move on to a fresh argument?
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Post by Pilch on Mar 7, 2011 17:36:47 GMT 1
Front of tonights star
Review call as crossing is branded dangerous
It's taken 6 months of chaos, accidents to work that out me 6 seconds ;-)
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Post by El Huracán!!!! on Mar 7, 2011 17:46:42 GMT 1
As some one that has to travel along Smithfield Road everytime I go home or leave my house I really have not had much of a problem with it most of the time, but in the rush hour it is a pain, the swerving of lanes and stuff getting around it from traffic that wants to nip around the queue from the bridge signals does cause slightly more queueing back around town on town walls and in town IMO (observed from traveling through town at 5.30 before and after it) However if its being removed to stop boy racers from crashing into it, thats not a good enough reason IMO... 1) Its a 30mph speed limit... you have PLENTY of time to see it coming 2) If you crash into it through speed, the accident will be recorded as a function of a speeding not the crossing 3) Again from living in town it seems like there are less boy racers about at the moment, but that could be related to petrol costs (not so fun burning £5 raszing around town) and the fact its the winter (less scantliey clad women to "impress") Having imrpvoed the crossings at the Welsh Bridge recently, there is little need for it now IMO... you wonder if it was temporay measure? Nailed on though that if they remove it, someone gets killed crossing the road, and the council get it both barrles again... no win is it (hense why im a transport consultant who work in the private sector )
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Post by stockportershrew on Mar 8, 2011 0:02:38 GMT 1
As some one that has to travel along Smithfield Road everytime I go home or leave my house I really have not had much of a problem with it most of the time, but in the rush hour it is a pain Does Shrewsbury have a rush hour?
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Post by saladsaladsalad on Mar 8, 2011 0:11:14 GMT 1
As some one that has to travel along Smithfield Road everytime I go home or leave my house I really have not had much of a problem with it most of the time, but in the rush hour it is a pain Does Shrewsbury have a rush hour? Very much so, unlike Stockport - residents of which largely can't afford a pushbike never mind a car.
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Post by grinfish on Mar 8, 2011 0:39:34 GMT 1
I've always thought of those little refuge things as an aid to evolution. If your common sense is impaired enough to choose one over a better crossing point, or you don't drive in a safe enough manner to evade one, then We, the Careful, Sober and Unrushed, salute your noble sacrifice on behalf of the genepool.
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Post by Pilch on Mar 8, 2011 0:46:50 GMT 1
I've always thought of those little refuge things as an aid to evolution. If your common sense is impaired enough to choose one over a better crossing point, or you don't drive in a safe enough manner to evade one, then We, the Careful, Sober and Unrushed, salute your noble sacrifice on behalf of the genepool. on those lines i was tempted to climb up the darwin 'thing' one night but the thought of owning the all time darwin award kind of told me not to ;D
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Post by grinfish on Mar 8, 2011 0:49:25 GMT 1
on those lines i was tempted to climb up the darwin 'thing' one night but the thought of owning the all time darwin award kind of told me not to ;D There would have been such an Irony Field around that event, people's trousers would press themselves with a fine crease as they walked past
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