justaskin

Further thoughts on the safety issues. Clear sight lines are not always a net gain, as a belief by drivers that they have a clear view can encourage speed, plus a disregard for stop and give way signs. Are drivers not taught to proceed, particularly on a residential street, with the assumption that they do not have clear sight lines? Would the increased space around the dropped kerb also encourage the resident to emerge onto the road at greater speed and greater risk? Just askin

Safety considerations rightly pervade all traffic management thinking, and the solutions are rarely simple. Here, I understand, safety is cited specifically as the reason for the new double yellows requirement, by ensuring permanent sight lines around the vehicle crossing point. If it is a compelling reason, then why does it apply only to new applications? Why is it not retrospective? If these extra sight lines are required to reduce the risk of collisions between cars at crossing points, then surely the same logic would apply to the sight lines at all points at which a pedestrian might cross, which under the council?s current rules might be anywhere on a residential street. Double yellows on all residential streets? Restricting pedestrians? freedom to cross? Just askin

Following intexasatthe moment?s link to Southwark?s websitel, you get another link through to Section 86 of the Traffic Management Act 2004, which says no parking by a dropped kerb except: outside residential premises with the consent of the occupier. Putting double yellows across a residential dropped kerb cancels that exception. Is that lawful? Just askin.