Guest 2476- Registered: 2 Feb 2018
- Posts: 33
The recent tragic death of a young woman in Dover has highlighted a growing menace to pedestrians but does not seem to have produced much in the way of positive action to deal with it.
This incident had been coming for a long time. It began with widespread parking on double yellow lines, escalated to widespread pavement abuse by cyclists and has culminated in an increasing trend for cars to treat red lights as optional.
Kids think nothing of bombing around blind corners on pavements, at top speed, after dark, with no lights, bell, or even any high vis clothing. Not that they should be on the pavement in the first place.
Like much anti-social behaviour, it is tolerated where zero tolerance should apply. Where are the police? Why are so many people so spineless in not challenging it more?
The worst spot of all is the Folkestone Road-York Street junction. Be aware.
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,895
Pavements are no longer simply for pedestrians, which can be very dangerous, many of them are also in a bad state of repair but not quite bad enough to report.
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Guest 2476- Registered: 2 Feb 2018
- Posts: 33
I hear moves are afoot to even out pedestrianised areas of Dover Jan. Of course that will do nothing to deter cyclists.
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TheThinWhiteDuke- Registered: 7 Jul 2016
- Posts: 359
The main "pedestrianised" bit of Dover is puddle central when it rains. That's gonna take a lot of evening out. I often wonder: Why do towns spend fortunes on this parquet/mosaic brickwork paving stuff, when paving slabs would surely be way cheaper and much more practical in terms of initial & maintenance costs? They always seem to end up puddly those brickworked floors.
I put pedestrianised in quotes because it is so woefully unenforced. I'm not sure of the precise rules but isn't it meant to be no vehicles "at any time & loading only between 4pm and 8am" or something vaguely similar.
I can remember working in Dixons in the Christmas of '84 and having to phone the local police station to get clearance for customers vehicles for bulky purchases.
Plenty of people seem to take absolutely no notice. By-laws are obviously just for other people.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,895
Droid wrote:I hear moves are afoot to even out pedestrianised areas of Dover Jan. Of course that will do nothing to deter cyclists.
I am not worried about the pedestrian areas, although those gullies outside Boots etc are lethal turned my ankle more than once. The town centre is heaven in comparison to most of the clapped out uneven back street pavements.
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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