Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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3 September 2009
21:1028465#1
Is it me or are the new road improvements at Oxney Bottom going to make the road more unsafe ? They have put a line of crash barriers up so rather than one car go out of control and off the road, it will just bounce into the path of oncoming cars...
Why not the solid double white lines the whole length ? There is only one bit between Ringwould and Dover that it is very very only just possible to pass a slow vehicle, but anywhere else is dicing with death.....
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Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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4 September 2009
07:3928473#2
I dont know the section you are talking about Paul but as we all know thats not a safe road. But when they make these chages one assumes they research into the pros and cons of the situation and no doubt would be aware of the possibility of vehicles bouncing back into oncoming traffic...so what the justification for such a barrier is is hard to fathom. But our fate is in these guys hands at The Highways Agency, I guess its them anyway. Maybe they see some good in the idea..somewhere.
Guest 671- Registered: 4 May 2008
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4 September 2009
08:4028478#3
No Paul aka Scotchie, your not alone in that comment, everyone has made same comment that I have spoke to, its just another accident waiting to happen on an already dangerous road, lets hope we are all wrong.
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4 September 2009
08:5228479#4
The same applies to the Alkham Valley. The last thing that is needed is a crash barrier. What is needed is careful drivers, not boy racers putting themselves and others at risk.
Terry
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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4 September 2009
08:5328480#5
Sorry but I think the crash barriers at that point are good it will stop you going over the top ,also I think it will help to stop speeding just there to, we need the same along the Alkham road aswell 3have now died along there by just coming off the road and hiting trees.
Vic matcham
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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4 September 2009
12:1728487#6
"What is needed is careful drivers, not boy racers putting themselves and others at risk"
If only it were boy racers along there and Alkham Valley - mostly mid-life crisis men in their Beemers
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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4 September 2009
16:2628494#7
All ages do it not just the young.
Guest 686- Registered: 5 May 2009
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4 September 2009
17:4928502#8
I have to agree with Scotchie but would also like to add that roads, in and of themselves, are NOT dangerous. How can they be? Do trees leap out at drivers? Do barriers fling themselves across the road in front of the traffic? No, of course not. It must, therefore, be down to the vehicles or rather the nut holding the steering wheel/handlebars.
Phil West
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Guest 671- Registered: 4 May 2008
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5 September 2009
08:2228515#9
Phil, of course roads are dangerous, there are many conditions of a road that makes accident hot spots. If the bend at oxney bottom is deemed dangerous enough to have crash barriers, why not remove the bend?
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