Now gone down a rabbit hole reading about turn of the century speed bump controversies. There were, apparently, 323 'hidden humps' in Hastings by 2001. - ThreadSky

salawatson.bsky.social • 3 days ago

Now gone down a rabbit hole reading about turn of the century speed bump controversies. There were, apparently, 323 'hidden humps' in Hastings by 2001.

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rantyhighwayman.bsky.social•3 days ago

Surely turn of the century was 1900, oh no wait you mean 25 years ago.

salawatson.bsky.social•3 days ago

Have found a few incidents of people being refused a pedestrian crossing because not enough people etc. Do you know when that all changed? When govt relaxed rules on this kind of thing?

rantyhighwayman.bsky.social•3 days ago

1995. LOL.

I've written a paper about this nonsense:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/markphilpotts_permission-to-cross-technical-paper-activity-7093180346501865472-qxN9?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android&rcm=ACoAAAWg3SIBMZ6QNkF-rer7n-JjcAcx38LFru8

salawatson.bsky.social•2 days ago

The other thing I’m trying to figure out is to what extent is the excuse of doing nothing because there is no ‘accident’ data or not enough traffic to act based on past or current guidance. E.g. these recent arguments by someone working in transport in an LA.

rantyhighwayman.bsky.social•2 days ago

It's rationing, pure and simple.

In fairness to officers, they are being used to somehow construct a data-led approach for what is actually a political decision.

So, an area with lots of injury collisions gets priority over a site without any.

salawatson.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yes comes out of road safety approach of 1970s but wondered what they use as benchmarks? How do they decide what is too much and what is too little? Or is it just words to rationalise rationing?