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If drivers do actually end up following the lines rather than pursuing a straight course, surely it may distract them from paying attention to other hazards

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What's the betting that 5 years from now, it'll be quietly dropped and the next time it comes up for repainting, they'll be straight again? Still, at least the center line isn't solid, so if your car IS wide enough, crossing it won't be a problem.

More money wasted by a council without the foggiest idea of what road safety is.

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My views do not represent Safespeed but those of a driver who has driven for 39 yrs, in all conditions, at all times of the day & night on every type of road and covered well over a million miles, so knows a bit about what makes for safety on the road,what is really dangerous and needs to be observed when driving and quite frankly, the speedo is way down on my list of things to observe to negotiate Britain's roads safely, but I don't expect some fool who sits behind a desk all day to appreciate that.

I can't imagine that for one second that they are legal!
What madness! And why the little red bits anyway ?!
I cannot see how anyone will take this seriously or even pay any attention to it and just drive in a straight line.
I agree people paying attention to this may potentially miss vital developing hazard clues!

If this Council think that this was a good idea then they are unfit to rule and need to be removed from office.

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I'm just waiting for someone on the Council to propose creating a cycle lane along the side of it - "a la Ambleside" (i.e. by just painting one on there without actually widening the road)! I wonder If the cycle lane markings will have to be widgly too? THAT should create some carnage! (which could subsequently be mitigated be reducing the sped limit further, I suppose...)

Looks like it was created for Comic Relief, though when it comes to wiggly cycle lanes take a look at this one in Bromley. http://goo.gl/maps/5VQc7

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I recall seeing a TV program about bad positioned, down right awful and stupid road signage and road furnishings. It was mad what they showed! Hard to belief that some planner had actually had permission to install and that others had actually carried out the work without any form of suggestion back up the ladder that the 'work' was plain wrong!

The program pointed out that in many cases part time planners were to blame but they had precious little time and resources to fully apraise the project never mind check all the details, but to just solve a 'problem'.
It would explain what is going wrong in many towns and cities all over the Country.

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Yes, that's fair. It's a bit like social workers getting blamed when they fail to spot these horrendous cases of child abuse. I don't know what town planners typically get paid, but I'm guessing it's not that much, and they'll be bound by more red tape than you can shake a stick at. In Toltec's photo, it's hard to imagine that anyone with two brain cells to rub together, who would have thought it was a good idea, but I bet that their hands will have been tied because there will have been some ruling on minimum pavement width for pedestrians, some guideline on how far the cycle lane had to be from the kerb, and no money to move the lamp posts. I think that very often these poor unfortunates end up having to do the "least awful" thing and then just sit back and wait for the brickbats to come flooding in.

There may well also be (I know there is in other public sector areas) a culture that not only penalises thinking out of the box but actually rewards mediocrity. You get situations where you can't be sacked, disciplined, or in any way chastised for "sticking to the guidelines" (however ludicrous the outcome) but you end up absolutely on your own if you exercise enough judgment to realise that two guidelines are going to conflict and you'll end up with a poor result. So when you take the decision to ignore one of them, it will be "all your fault" the day someone gets killed (even though it delivered a better solution and the death was nothing directly to do with the decision you took)!

I would guess that the person who signed that off ( based on what my mate used to earn as a medium cog in highways), on on excess of £60K...enough to be able to realise that someone wiggling about on a road in a car, is either drunk or as stupid as the guy who dreamt it up or signed it off.

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My views do not represent Safespeed but those of a driver who has driven for 39 yrs, in all conditions, at all times of the day & night on every type of road and covered well over a million miles, so knows a bit about what makes for safety on the road,what is really dangerous and needs to be observed when driving and quite frankly, the speedo is way down on my list of things to observe to negotiate Britain's roads safely, but I don't expect some fool who sits behind a desk all day to appreciate that.

Streetview shows it as previously having red-painted central hatchings of varying widths.

To be honest, it doesn't remotely have the level of development to justify a 30 anyway.

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Blimey!!! OK, I take it all back! I thought they weren't very well paid!

Nobody round here follows any lines anywhere, if it can be driven across without danger of losing suspension components then it's ignored, so I don't see it working.