Pavement protection

I can’t see that happening. If you was to put a brick through someone’s car window because the they parked outside your drive on the curb you would no doubt get a visit from the cop’s and I do not see how puncturing peoples tyres would be any different. Even with a sign up.

P.S, Forget the above, you would not be able to get your car out of the drive to go anywhere any how 🙂

You could be correct Boris 😉

Not sure if I am legally correct in this, but puncturing someone’s tyres is actually Criminal Damage and only legal when used by police forces, trying to stop a lawbreaking driver. In other circumstances, it would need legislation enacted for, say, a Council Highways Department to fit these things. That would be very difficult to achieve, as the organisation trying to get the law changed would have to show sufficient cause. We all know how hard it is to get facilities like traffic lights and Traffic Calming measures, until at least half a dozen fatalities have been experienced. TBH, I would much rather Highways sorted out the potholes and rugged surface of a road I regularly drive in Louth. The patches that have been applied to some of the potholes, are seriously worse than were the potholes.

I do get really angry with drivers who park with half their cars onto a pavement. In Louth town this was a problem until Parking Wardens were employed. It’s a Georgian town with narrow streets and very narrow pavements: two people walking abreast cannot be passed without walking into the road and the traffic. Which brings me to another activity that annoys me: groups of four or more people who block the pavement by  having a conversation across the pavement and standing in the way of others. Add to that, the Buggy Brigade, who wheel their offspring about in vehicles the size of small cars, two abreast, often while on the phone. The town is definitely not Disabled-friendly. And don’t get me started on pedestrians who decide to cross the road behind my car, when I am waiting for the pedestrians with more than half a brain to cross the “zebra” in front of my car.

It’s not a good day for me today, as you have probably guessed…??

I read them as things to be positioned on kerbs, and so help stop idiot SUV/4×4/White Van drivers who never seem to be able to park without swinging dangerously onto a pavement. As such I would love to see them on every UK kerb! The only problem is the amount of signage they would generate.

Similar claws can sometimes be seen in US hired-car parks to prevent stop people using the way-in as an illegal exit point.

Louth town centre is a “compact” town, that is an ancient place with narrow streets, originally made for horses and horse-drawn vehicles, also well below sea level. This causes problems from flooding by the River Lud at the lowest point, to housing: old buildings are currently being either torn down, or completely rebuilt, into apartments and flats. This is to provide homes for an expanding population, there is a lot of modern industry coming into the area and those who are coming here for jobs, have to have somewhere to live. Housing on the higher outskirts, is becoming more expensive.

This means that many  of the flats and apartments in the centre, are in blocks with gated or barriered access to their own car parking. The barriers are either “spring up” mechanisms, accessed by a recessed locked plate, or “fold-down” ones, locked down for exit and locked in the upright position to prevent illegal use. Surely a derivative from one of these options would be a much better solution?

IMO, the best security is provided by educating Joe Public into awareness. The message should be dinned into all of us, by media ads and posters, to be aware that we are in what is tantamount to a war situation. There are people who want to maim and kill as many of us as possible and their weapon of choice is currently a vehicle, preferably a heavy one. Possibly accompanied by explosives. The attitude of “It cannot happen here” is wrong: it can. There are so many different groups that wish to cause harm in the name of their Cause, add to those the simply bonkers groups who have convinced and deluded themselves that society is doing something, or allowing something to be done, that they don’t like.

No. I’m not paranoid, I’m being realistic.

Lolz, Chris!

That be verderer territory, near where they killed the bears!

When I was a young lad you could still get into a fight by asking ‘who killed the bear’, because at that time the tale had morphed into the menfolk hiding and their wives doing the killing!

A Sunday walk around Louth town:

Ignore the audio, or turn it off: I don’t know the guy who made it, but he mumbles all the way through it.

I can’t find a YT during a Market day, but the scenes showing all the Estate Agencies are where it is held: the Cornmarket. Wednesdays are the biggest and best Market days. On a sunny Wednesday it is packed.

I don’t get that either bob. Actually, I’m the opposite. Adults that use zebra crossing when its not need bug me. Crossing are for kids, the old, the disabled, or for very busy roads, most roads a healthy adult can just cross with out the need to slow traffic.

However when people walk half way across the road (which I do), when on side is clear, and wait until the other side is clear, and time their walk, to just pass the back of a car, I always get this childish urge to dab my breaks, so they bump into the car. Obviously I wouldn’t, as it could scratch or dent my car. But oh the urge is so strong.

However I think the way I described above is a perfectly adequate way to cross a road. Health adults don’t need a crossing unless its rush hour, or a duel carriageway set up type road.

“but the Town Planner must have been severely off his face”

Don’t blame your town planner, unfortunately such decisions are made by your County Highways Dept ‘Engineer’ who in my experience has obtained a BS(failed) in Highway Engineering from some obscure overseas uni and isn’t fit to shovel effluvium. However he/she has the requisite number of points in being disadvantaged in many ways and is above all cheap.

Unfortunately once he/she has tenure you have to write them a reference that says they can walk on water and hope some other LGA picks them up in order to get rid of them.  They cannot be sacked by any elected officials!

Sorry about the rant but you managed to hit one of my hot points – Local Government and Civil Service incompetence.