08-Aug-2004, 10:42 AM
It is interesting to read that Leyland, too, is suffering from from the "road bumps" disease. In this neck of Souith Yorkshire "they" have placed road bumps throughout the town centre of a local suburb.
Under the guise of "traffic calming measures", they have succeeded in virtually removing traffic from the town centre. Talking to locals brings the reply that no-one in their right mind would go there to shop now.
We live on what must be called the wrong side of the tracks, cross over the fictitious borough boundary, and you come into the most backward and neglected road systems in the County. Double yellow lines denote free car parking zones, speed humps are a challenge to yobo`s to go even faster over them, road surfaces never get levelled or maintained.
Good luck to Leyland with its traffic calming measures, but watch out for an increase in law-breakers trying to take up the challenge.
A recent report in the local press said that originally there were 22 traffic wardens controlled by the Police, now there are two.
Need I say more????
Under the guise of "traffic calming measures", they have succeeded in virtually removing traffic from the town centre. Talking to locals brings the reply that no-one in their right mind would go there to shop now.
We live on what must be called the wrong side of the tracks, cross over the fictitious borough boundary, and you come into the most backward and neglected road systems in the County. Double yellow lines denote free car parking zones, speed humps are a challenge to yobo`s to go even faster over them, road surfaces never get levelled or maintained.
Good luck to Leyland with its traffic calming measures, but watch out for an increase in law-breakers trying to take up the challenge.
A recent report in the local press said that originally there were 22 traffic wardens controlled by the Police, now there are two.
Need I say more????