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annesevant
#1 Posted : 29 March 2009 19:07:00(UTC)
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I am sure the problem is not restricted to Area 3, but I have observed cars in Fullwell Avenue going at incredibly stupid speeds.
I know we need a few 'sacrificial' deaths before something is done but this seems absolutely unfair on the residents (and other users). I hoped the credit crunch would affect the culprits who would think twice about wasting petrol. Not so, not yet!
Whilst moaning, the local rat-run, Mossford Lane, has been graced with one of these automatic speed warning panels. Well, what a busy little panel that is! If these panels are able to register statistics, I am sure the figures would be impressive. (A ready source of income, perhaps?)
What is wrong with drivers? What are they trying to prove by accelerating like maniacs and, then braking like maniacs for traffic lights or T-junction. (Even London Bus drivers do this and that is beyond comprehension.)
Anybody in charge of road safety in the borough?
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TheChampagnesOnIce
#3 Posted : 30 March 2009 15:23:20(UTC)
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annesevant wrote:
Whilst moaning, the local rat-run, Mossford Lane, has been graced with one of these automatic speed warning panels. Well, what a busy little panel that is! If these panels are able to register statistics, I am sure the figures would be impressive. (A ready source of income, perhaps?)
annesevant


I'm not sure the automatic spped warning panel works - I get realy hacked of when driving past it at 25MPH to have it flash 30MPH at me - what's it trying to do, get me to speed up!
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annesevant
#4 Posted : 30 March 2009 17:03:36(UTC)
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Dear Bubbly ChampagnesOnIce,
Me, too, 25mph is my maximum speed but I have never managed to trigger one of those things. I have to wait for more adventurous people to enjoy watching the pretty lights and appreciate the various designs.
Now, in Berkeley Avenue (twenty's plenty zone), there is an automatic warning sign (well within my possibilities) and I was toying with the idea of checking at what speed it is set, but it's level with a speed hump and most people are slowing down to save the shock absorbers, etc,...
Bother.
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annesevant
#5 Posted : 01 April 2009 12:16:36(UTC)
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What was I saying about the speed of cars on Mossford Lane?
Last night, a parked car was wrecked by somebody driving too fast, at the traffic lights, at the Mossford Lane/ Fullwell Avenue junction. The damaged car will be a write -off because it hit a lamp-post so badly that the lamp post has had to be cut off. So the side and back of the car are mangled.
I just hope the cretin driving too fast was insured but even if he/she was, it will still put up our insurance premiums.
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Morris Hickey
#6 Posted : 01 April 2009 12:24:36(UTC)
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annesevant wrote:
What was I saying about the speed of cars on Mossford Lane?
Last night, a parked car was wrecked by somebody driving too fast, at the traffic lights, at the Mossford Lane/ Fullwell Avenue junction. The damaged car will be a write -off because it hit a lamp-post so badly that the lamp post has had to be cut off. So the side and back of the car are mangled.
I just hope the cretin driving too fast was insured but even if he/she was, it will still put up our insurance premiums.
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And such incidents will continue to occur until such time as our invisible police ENFORCE THE LAW.
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annesevant
#7 Posted : 02 April 2009 07:59:49(UTC)
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To reply to Morris, I can assure you that the police are not invisible, nor silent either.
At, the allotments,... where I spend my dotage years, I constantly hear sirens announcing police cars, marked or not, police vans, going like the clappers. Why? Obvious answer, they have to respond to distress calls within a given time. Now, crime figures are down, so these calls cannot be screened propertly, somebody errs on the side of caution. Is that statisticised?
On the other side, I am now riding my tricycle on the main road, because a friend got fined for riding his bike on the pavement.
The friend was in the wrong, so no complaining there but, riding on a busy road, having to overtake parked cars and being overtaken by buses is not for the faint hearted.
Faint-hearted, moi? Non!
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sappy
#9 Posted : 02 April 2009 13:06:32(UTC)
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I sent an email to the Highways Parking Management team on the 13th Feb detailing some issues and I got an automated reply saying that they would respond within 28 days.... guess what, I'm still waiting for a response.

I think they would have hoped the issues would go away if left alone, or is it they would rather give people £60 fine for overstaying parking by 5mins, rather than actually dealing with traffic and safety issues.

I think the Police do a fairly good job, however in my mind it's very reactive rather than being pro-active and that's why the sirens are going all time !

More police on the streets to see the speeding cars and people on their phones whilst driving and none of this don't use mobiles or keep your ipod's hidden. Let target the criminals not the victims (or potential victims)
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Morris Hickey
#10 Posted : 02 April 2009 13:23:28(UTC)
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That's disgraceful Sappy. I suggest you compplain further to len.norton@redbridge.gov.uk
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BryanDicker
#8 Posted : 02 April 2009 14:23:24(UTC)
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annesevant wrote:
To reply to Morris, I can assure you that the police are not invisible, nor silent either.
At, the allotments,... where I spend my dotage years, I constantly hear sirens announcing police cars, marked or not, police vans, going like the clappers. Why? Obvious answer, they have to respond to distress calls within a given time. Now, crime figures are down, so these calls cannot be screened propertly, somebody errs on the side of caution. Is that statisticised?
On the other side, I am now riding my tricycle on the main road, because a friend got fined for riding his bike on the pavement.
The friend was in the wrong, so no complaining there but, riding on a busy road, having to overtake parked cars and being overtaken by buses is not for the faint hearted.
Faint-hearted, moi? Non!
annesevant


Anne is correct on two counts. Sirens is usually heard during the day AND NIGHT. Something I have become unacustomed to and my children are not used to.

The overtaking bus, overtaking speeding cars are frightnening. I used to get worried cycling to Fairlop Waters, Newbury Park and Ilford (these were my main trips), and even now, in my car, it is a risk not to get hit by the speeding care going around the Gants Hill Rounabout or going to the Crematorium by Fairlop Waters.
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sappy
#11 Posted : 08 April 2009 12:13:59(UTC)
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Further to my earlier note I have now had a full reply from the Parking Management Team with a list of actions that they are taking.

Many thanks to both them and Redimanager for dealing with this.
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