What Have They Done?
There is little good or positive one can say about traffic schemes local authorities have implemented in recent years. The types of scheme implemented rob us of road resource, prevent people from using their common sense, increase congestion and make people have stop and start unnecessarily. Such green-unfriendly schemes have cost millions of pounds of public money, and now the public are paying a different cost, having to contend with a long list of negative factors. Some of the schemes are simply inconvenient, some are simply ridiculous, some are positively dangerous. They all cost the public more time and money and make the roads and our society less efficient. It all represents an irresponsible waste of public money spent on things that do more harm than good and cause more problems than they cure.
Negative factors caused by the recent trend in retrogressive, green-unfriendly traffic schemes...
- Increase junction processing time
- Increase congestion and tailback congestion
- Force vehicles to stop and start unnecessarily
- Rob us of road resource
- Restrict road width
- Cause bottlenecks
- Obstruct vehicles with obstacles in the road
- Waste people's time
- Cover our roads in humps and bumps making them uncomfortable to travel on
- Cause more vehicle wear and tear
- Cause accidents with kerbstone appendages which jut out into the road
- Cause accidents with innappropriately placed mini roundabouts
- Cause more vehicle damage to wheels, tyres and wing mirrors.
- Cause more pollution
- Have a higher accident liklihood and liability
- Remove and diminish flexibility
- Prevent people from using their common sense and initiative
- Degrade the efficiency of our roads
- Degrade the efficiency of our society
- Cost people time and money
- Make life more difficult
- Increase frustration and road rage
- Impede emergency vehicles
- Encourage people to buy overly-large 4 x 4's
- Under provide on parking
- Charge and fine people for the problems they have created
Inefficient bus lanes, ridiculous priority give way schemes, perfectly good roads covered with lumps and bumps, unnecessary traffic lights, inefficient pedestrian crossings, no right turns, no left turns, restricted access with gates and bollards. All are green unfriendly, time wasting, congestion and pollution compounding. Then there's the under providing of parking, making life difficult for people to go about their business. It's a mess! And then they want charge and fine people for the mess they've created. As well as fines, they also want to charge people, and have effectively forced vehicles off the road, businesses to go under, and people to have to struggle even more, by introducing money-making schemes such as congestion charging and low emission zones. It's an insult and an abuse of position and power! An absolute disgrace!