http://www.safespeed.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?p=19480#19480
JJ wrote:
Ernest Marsh wrote:
I just re-read my first post in this thread, and I think we see eye to eye! Double whites all the way through, phantom lane up the southbound hill etc.
What I need to know is has Ian reported this to the Traffic Management Officer as JJ suggested?
And I'm a tad concerned that Ian is letting romanticism cloud the need to keep it safe!
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I have a real conflict of interests with Bannerigg. For me it’s an evocative characterful piece of road, which defined to me years since that I was ‘arriving’ at the lakes for my hols. I’d hate to see it sanitised too much. It’d lose its romanticism (for me anyway ).
I dont know how he could pull a motorist for reliving the "old days" when the NSL sign meant de-restricted!
He obviously doesnt share Steve's "Bah humbug!"views in the Valentines thread now locked away in the CSCP forum archive!
Ernest the traffuc management officers are aware of bannerigg. After your comments last year I got in touch with him and we conducted a traffic survey at the spot. The 85%tile speeds were fine, I did post them on the CSC site for you at the time. One of the problems we have is that even if the 85%ile was high there is a little we could do, due to health an safety issues regarding placment of the van. I would suggest that the way forwrd would be to insist that road engineering is carried out.
But the number of seriously injured collisions at that spot would not put it high on the priority list.JJ
As you can see, even when there is a history of accidents, which only by LUCK have not resulted in serious injury or deaths, the so called "Safety Cameras" cannot be deployed.
Nick Raymond - the County Councils roads officer said something similar of a crossing in Windermere - nobody has been killed, and there have been insufficient serious injury accidents to warrant spending £48,000 on a PELICAN crossing.
Small wonder that now somebody has been killed on Bannerigg, they are busy looking for more excuses to do nothing.
Poor driving standards kill people, but the Government wish to EARN money with cameras, not SPEND it on worthwhile safety improvements which would save lives.