Bellenden’s Road School Gate proposal

[Earl Aelfheah]

I don't know about that. I'm just commenting on the idea that it's not possible to read the signs / notice a school street.

That said, if you're going from ED to Highshore Road, can't you go via McDermott > Choumert Grove > Chadwick? The original post suggested that the school street would only be in operation for just over an hour in the morning?

Edited 7 hours ago by Earl Aelfheah

[Pugwash]

I have a feeling that one of these roads is a one way/no entry - have not tried this route for sometime.

[malumbu]

On 13/11/2025 at 15:48, CPR Dave said:

There's a school street opposite the end of my road and the council must be making a bucketload of cash from it every day, with the number of drivers I see go through there by accident.

I assume this is a joke/tongue in cheek.

Otherwise was a strange statement.  Accident?  What are they driving with their eyes shut? Checking their WhatsApps? Scrolling through Tinder??  Maybe they were distracted by aliens.  

No such thing as an accident.

[Penguin68]

1 hour ago, malumbu said:

No such thing as an accident

That's really not true, I do wish you'd stop insisting that. The desire to believe that every incident can be blamed on someone is simply childish. As is the desire to seek to blame people. Except cyclists of course, I believe is your theme. 

[march46]

40 minutes ago, Penguin68 said:

That's really not true, I do wish you'd stop insisting that. The desire to believe that every incident can be blamed on someone is simply childish. As is the desire to seek to blame people. Except cyclists of course, I believe is your theme. 

Crash not accident - why language matters  I think this is linked to what Malumbu is referring to.
 

When a driver is in charge of a heavy vehicle that could kill or seriously injure someone, using the word accident to describe them not seeing an important road sign can minimise how serious this is. What else could they not be seeing?

Edited 2 hours ago by march46
Clarity

[Penguin68]

But what was said was that there was no such thing as an accident, not that certain incidents could be seen to have a contributory cause which should have been forseen. If I am suddenly stung by a wasp whilst driving I may have an involuntary movement which may cause me, or someone else, significant harm. But would you then wish to attribute blame to someone, indeed presumably me. 50 years ago I was driving when I had a sudden mechanical failure of a component which was newly fitted. Which caused my car, and nearly me, to be written off. It was a mechanical failure which could not have been forseen by me or the person who fitted it. But apparently there's no such thing as as an accident in some people's books.