Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
think iv ansered that
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,888
You might find it easier Keith but I find it awful and the only difference between one fast lane and two is that it takes an absolute age for a long enough break in the traffic that will allow us doddery oldies to cross.
Yes Peter a pedestrian crossing is needed but I doubt we will ever get one.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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I think we have posted on crossings on other threads
such a the one at the top of pencester road where most people cross in other parts of the road and dont use the crossing
then the ones at bridge street, already been seriously hurt people crossing there
bt i am sorry jan you have problems crossing
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
- Posts: 8,664
Keith, you sound as if you were still on the council.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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Peter
not sure how you come to that conclusion, just a viewpoint like any other poster,
have to say since coming off the councils some 4 or 5 years ago it has given me a breath of fresh air
enjoying life to the full lol
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
It wasnt the bus company who asked for change.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,888
If I remember correctly it was the shop keeper nearest the bus stop.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
the highway code states that traffic should give way for a bus but this happens in practice less and less.
i agree about a pedestrian crossing if only as a traffic calming measure.
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,552
At the top of Pencester Road, there is also Biggin Street, Priory Street, Worthington Street, etc to cross, presumably why most people don't use the traffic lights.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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just on the pencester road you will find people crossing all down the road
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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including myself keith, never try to get across the ladywell lights without a green pedestrian signal though.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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the amount of pedestrians that come past the town hall, then dont look to the traffic behind them, and cross
a driend of mine did same and was knocked down.
often pedestrians are there own worst enemy
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Guest 756- Registered: 6 Jun 2012
- Posts: 727
It's not just town centres which experience these problems. We have areas in the villages where parking on the pavement forces pedestrians to walk out into the road, verges churned into mud, dangerous manouvers merely to pull round cars parked on top of junctions and the inevitable speeding on country lanes. How more people have not come to grief can only be explained by the ability of farmers to anticipate the latest idiot on the road!
Police response? We havn't got the manpower to enforce traffic management issues.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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Lesley
hope your well!!!!
regarding police, we have to decide whats the priorities?? whilst i fully appreciate more could be done, and better accountability.
Hopefully you havn't lit the spark for howard and his views on cars on pavements
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Guest 756- Registered: 6 Jun 2012
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Fine thanks Keith, just a cold.
Still find it hard to accept that we cannot fully utilise Traffic Wardens across the whole of the district and not just town centres and also community wardens and PCs'.
With small business locating to rural areas for cheaper rents/ leases etc, the traffic management to difficult to reach sites does cause problems. A recent planning issue claimed a small number of traffic movements as 50 lorries. As this would involve 100 movements on country lanes the impact will be substantial.
I welcome development but only if the infastucture can support it and frankly, even with KCCs efforts, our roads are crumbling.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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lesley
sorry to hear of your cold, hope its better soon(and you lol_)
Yes that is often a problem kent wide
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
- Posts: 4,010
# 35....I have an E1A Scoping report for a project destined to go to DDC planning dept involving 16,000 plus lorry
movements to use our crumbling village lanes on a site not 2 miles from both our homes Lesley.
I am trying to find out over what period this is to take place,without luck at present.I am following the matter very closely
and will keep you advised.
Guest 756- Registered: 6 Jun 2012
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Thanks Reg. Time we put freight back on the rails.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Yes Lesley but first we need to put the rails back to Pike Rd.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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What a wonderful idea...............................several years ago,about 1998,we campaigned for £ 160,000 to bring the bridge
up to European standard,the Royal Engineers were involved and even British Rail were considering a line link to the main
line at Sherperdswell.
All in the hope we could finish the rail to all the mining villages etc etc.Within a few months a lorry destroyed one of the
Bridge buttresses ..............................allowing Kent Salads to be built.........strange how these things happen isn`t it.........
Perhaps Joss and Gary C could up date us the possibility of reviving the campaign.......
..dreams do come true...don`t they?...................