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The bollard has been disturbed again - the tarmac base has moved.

The car in the shot is turning on an arc to avoid hitting the Gormley bollard on the right. Perhaps it wouldn't have to cut the corner if the road was at full original width, although I agree, lazy corner-cutting is very common.

Attached is a Google Streetview from 2008. The chevron's there, but it's evident by the new tarmac patches on the corners that this problem has been going on for a long time. What a waste of money.

It's nothing to do with speed David. This is a junction. I suspect you don't drive.

david_carnell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The thing is, if vehicles are being driven so > carelessly I'm rather glad the bollard is there > rather than it being a person getting swiped. As I said earlier, pedestrians wouldn't be hit if the pavement was left how the Victorians designed it. They'd be on the original pavement, rather than a build-out and cars would be able to negotiate it, like every other corner in the area. It's poor design, pure and simple, and the bollard is a problem put there to solve another problem, at our expense.

Not speed, mass and torque. It must've been at least a Transit van

Pedestrians wouldn't be hit if the road was left how the Victorians designed it. They'd be on the original pavement and cars would be able to negotiate it. It's poor design, pure and simple.

Move the junction how it was. Imagine a fire engine trying to get round.

Well, the new half-bell bollard, which is already covered in paint scrapes, caught its first victim today - an Astravan was impaled on it, wedged solid, with the bollard stuck inside the nearside wheel arch and its tyre popped. The driver was attempting futilely to rock his van off it, to no avail.

It's known as London Stock brickwork. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_stock_brick You can buy them as reclaimed or a new version, which might look a bit too clean and light.

New railway bridge for half moon lane?

Go Friday after 7pm.

But they've installed a more substantial bell type bollard on the opposite corner, which isn't affected!

I'm not sure a cpz would stop it. I had a car and two bikes with permits at the same address in another part of town.

I have, several times. For being a few mins over a two hour stay at a McDonalds (attending a party there!); for accidentally not paying-and-displaying at a supermarket, and my mother has for parking in a disabled with her badge not showing clearly (it fell down behind the dash). Ignore all, ignore all follow-up letters and don't ever attempt to contact them as they'll sniff a lead and keep bothering.

You must pay: parking 'fines' from councils, Network Rail car parks, police tickets (but you should appeal if you think you've being unfairly ticketed) You should bin: parking 'charges' from shopping centres, McDonald's, motorway services, supermarkets, basically anything from companies called 'Parking Eye' or 'Euro Parking' or similar. And bin the follow-up 'demands' from debt collectors, usually with the same PO Box as the original charge.

It's not a fine, it's a charge. You don't have to pay it, just bin it. Look up private parking charges online.

I cross diagonally there anyway

Shame. Looks like a great family home.

Using red tarmac and removing all white lines has been proven as an effective way of calming traffic. http://www.brake.org.uk/info-resources/info-research/road-safety-factsheets/15-facts-a-resources/facts/472-naked-roads

I followed a Peugeot estate that cut the existing corner and would've scraped the bollard, had it been there. It's just poor road design.

It takes days for the concrete to go off, but should cure the problem of 'tramlining' where buses create two deep tracks in the surface which are a nightmare for thin bike and car tyres. http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tiretech/techpage.jsp?techid=47

Or just put the road back to how it was

Down again on Monday, up on Tuesday and now down again, completely ripped out. Must be skip lorries or refuse trucks to do that.

Or turn left down Crawthew and then right onto Worlingham then right onto ED Road. It's no right turn out of CP road because there's no room for cars to pass on the left when cars are waiting to turn right (but not out of Adys road, for some reason)