However, some UK and Irish “traffic calming” schemes, particularly involving road narrowings, are viewed as extremely hostile and have been implicated directly in death and injury to cyclists and pedestrians.
Trust the British to fuck it up. One issue with a chicane is, if there’s no oncoming traffic, you can use both lanes and just not slow down.
People would still complain. There is never ending complaints about any kind of traffic calming measures in Hamilton. Hamilton isn’t even that big, I never understand why everyone here needs to drive so fast everywhere they go. I think it barely even saves time.
It does sound like much more notice should have been given to residents, on the other hand it also sounds like the council gets a lot of local complaints of speeding on that road… I’m not sure what the locals there are expecting them to do besides traffic calming measures?
The biggest question I had when reading this was, what’s wrong with speed bumps?
They allow two way traffic, slow people down, and will last longer than a bunch of plastic crap stuck to the pavement.
Bump, but easy to install.
But there are better (more comfortable) calming methods, like chicanes.
Trust the British to fuck it up. One issue with a chicane is, if there’s no oncoming traffic, you can use both lanes and just not slow down.
People would still complain. There is never ending complaints about any kind of traffic calming measures in Hamilton. Hamilton isn’t even that big, I never understand why everyone here needs to drive so fast everywhere they go. I think it barely even saves time.
It does sound like much more notice should have been given to residents, on the other hand it also sounds like the council gets a lot of local complaints of speeding on that road… I’m not sure what the locals there are expecting them to do besides traffic calming measures?
Oh, no doubt, but this genuinely does sound like a cock up to me.