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The Shaggy D.A. |
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Posted: 08:33 - 04 Oct 2017 Post subject: Road closed due to roadworks kitten killer |
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Wotchapeeps.
Around the Northampton area there's a shed load of roadworks and road closures on at the mo, and has been for most of the year. As soon as one finishes, the next lot starts 100 yards away. There's one particular junction on my commute which currently has a 3-way temporary light phasing, and the queues are fucking stupid. It also has a diversion in place, so one of the normal exits is marked as road closed with cones across it, but only for about 10 foot - traffic is still allowed the other side of the cones.
They've slowly been placing more cones there and closing the gaps, but I can still get through. This morning they've put a bloke there. Pretty sure he mentioned kittens and prison in his tirade as I slalomed past him and toddled on my merry way, but I couldn't tell with the earplugs in and a dose of rortyzorst.
So, what is the penalty for ignoring road closed signs? Death by a thousand cuts? Scaphism? ____________________ Chances are quite high you are not in my Monkeysphere, and I don't care about you. Don't take it personally.
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Posted: 08:52 - 04 Oct 2017 Post subject: |
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I know I'm going to be wrong on this, Roger may be along shortly to correct me, but I think it would come under TS50 "Failing to comply with a traffic sign (excluding Stop signs, traffic lights and double white lines)". Mandatory death penalty |
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I remember an article about someone getting fined for driving through a flooded road which had a road closed sign.
Vehicle was a prepped Land Rover Defender so had no issues with 3 ft of water rather than drive many miles around, however plod deemed many kittens to have been killed as a result.
I could only seem to find Scottish stories in the UK (as link below), but I'm pretty sure the one I remember was in the home counties.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/drivers-who-ignored-road-closed-7187481
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If they are actually working with machines running and ear defenders on they don't want traffic passing unexpectedly.
But the main reason for excessive cone-age is likely to be liability in case someone falls in hole or gets hit by something.
If no-one is actually there and you can get through safely nothing worse than finger wagging is going to happen. |
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I regularly ride past road closed signs.
Quite often there is a UCR or Byway along there somewhere, number of times I've ridden from the opposite direction of the closure sign, to the annoyance, bewilderment, puzzlement, etc of workers who wonder where we have come from.
Not our fault, they didn't sign the junction we turned out of, cos they didn't bother to check it was there. |
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I once rode past a road closed sign in the Pyrenees, assuming that whatever had caused the closure would be no problem to weave the bike through.
Got round the next corner to find that a whole section of road had disappeared down the mountain! Bit of a brown trouser moment, followed by some awkward manoeuvring to turn around two luggage laden bikes Won't make that mistake again!
But in the UK, "road closed" signs are generally ignored ____________________ Current bike - 2018 H2-SX, 2004 SV1000s, 2016 Aprilia RSV4 RF, 2017 Sherco SERF 300, 2003 Suzuki DRZ400 (stolen - AY53 JUU) |
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Posted: 11:01 - 04 Oct 2017 Post subject: |
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I'd pay attention to them if they were used only where and when absolutely necessary.
Coning and closing off big stretches of roads for weeks with no work being done (and being seen to not be done) leads to contempt.
And that then leads to workers being injured and killed.
That's the cost of over-signing.
Saltiness coming from discovering that the secret unsigned mystery closures that have just sprung up on my commute and are causing chaos - with, of course, no actual works being done - are going to be there for at least 6 weeks. ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
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Friend did this on south coast a few years ago
ASBO £100 fine based on CCTV image of bike on closed road!
Riding other than on the Highway ?? or some such
be aware some local authorities / some police forces do not take it ____________________ Dave
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Bottom of Holly Lodge Drive, where it meets the Market Harborough Road. The actual coned area is where the lorry is turning here :-
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.2722971,-0.9019164,3a,75y,118.98h,84.63t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sSOeNQc46lhBtr2LZqwDH1w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en
It's closed, just for the width of the pedestrian crossing. The other side joining the Harborough Road is open. At the moment it's quicker for me to go through Boughton to Moulton, cross the A43 and get to Wellingborough via Sywell than it is to wait at that junction. ____________________ Chances are quite high you are not in my Monkeysphere, and I don't care about you. Don't take it personally.
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Feel your pain Shaggy. Recently on my commute home, they'd decided to put cones and lights across about 20 feet of one side of the road. Then they'd not turned the traffic lights on. Good one. No actual work was completed until the following morning. All of that carnage for nothing. Lazy arses. ____________________ My Flickr |
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The cones (and angry dayglow Derek) have gone this morning, but the signs are still there and the cars are using the turn.
Got to work this morning to find a sign up for the last road I use before getting to the office stating it will be closed for a week starting the 23rd. Lovely. ____________________ Chances are quite high you are not in my Monkeysphere, and I don't care about you. Don't take it personally.
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 6 years, 198 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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