No way to calm traffic!
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No way to calm traffic!
Image: © Stephen Craven Taken: 9 May 2010
A lesson to any traffic engineers on here: whoever designed this particular bit of "traffic calming" didn't have his thinking cap on! The theory is to use a road-narrowing island to force traffic through a single-lane width gap with signs giving priority to one direction. But this is on a blind bend, so the traffic that should give way cannot see whether there is anything coming from round the bend that has priority. As I discovered one very wet day when a car appeared round the bend just as I went through the gap, and went into an aquaplaning skid - a nasty accident was only just avoided. Update: by 2015 the priority markings had been removed, perhaps for the reasons given above.
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