thoughts on road user priority

[Desert Region]

Lol...Well, I admit that I never played amongst the cars on Lord Street for obvious reasons. But we did run around parked cars on our own forecourt. A policeman once asked what we were doing - and believe it or not, I told him we were playing Cops and Robbers!

It's cats that you often find nestled, hidden below cars - and sometimes in the wheel arch!

Kids playing hide-and-seek behind parked cars to the worriment of their parents isn't something that happens in reality.

[gsgsgs]

I suppose your peds include visitors with excited youngsters tagging along behind, running about playing hide-and-seek in shop doorways and behind parked cars, etc.

Which Enid Blyton book are you living in, to use a misquote I hope there was lashings of ginger beer.

[The PNP]

A) It's cats that you often find nestled, hidden below cars - and sometimes in the wheel arch!

B) Kids playing hide-and-seek behind parked cars to the worriment of their parents isn't something that happens in reality.

A) Cats with their curious nature can indeed be a pain, which is why I never leave any doors open on works vehicles whilst indoors at a clients address.....It's not unknown for one to climb the ladder when no-ones looking either. But the worst is when a tomcat gets in a vehicle - and 'sprays'!

B) Well, all I can do is repeat again, that back in the day we did indeed sometimes play around the cars on the front of our place.

[Desert Region]

A) Cats with their curious nature can indeed be a pain, which is why I never leave any doors open on works vehicles whilst indoors at a clients address.....It's not unknown for one to climb the ladder when no-ones looking either. But the worst is when a tomcat gets in a vehicle - and 'sprays'!

B) Well, all I can do is repeat again, that back in the day we did indeed sometimes play around the cars on the front of our place.

Playing around cars in 'your' forecourt - not playing hide-and-seek behind cars in a street. Did your parents not stop you from doing that out of worry you'd run out into the road?! I'm also thinking that you didn't run out into the road?

You can now and again see kids using shop doorways to play hide-and-seek, but I've never seen kids using parked cars to play hide-and-seek behind. And neither have you.

Open question:

Has anyone on this site seen kids playing hide-and-seek behind parked cars on Lord Street. According to the PNP it seems to be a common occurrence, everyday hazard, and a pressing worry on the minds of parents as they thus struggle to concentrate on trying to do their shopping on Lord Street - meaning that there should be many, many confirmations of this pressing phenomenon.

[Desert Region]

Which Enid Blyton book are you living in, to use a misquote I hope there was lashings of ginger beer.

To think that there's seven children hiding behind that vehicle!

[The PNP]

Playing around cars in 'your' forecourt - not playing hide-and-seek behind cars in a street. Did your parents not stop you from doing that out of worry you'd run out into the road?! I'm also thinking that you didn't run out into the road?

You can now and again see kids using shop doorways to play hide-and-seek, but I've never seen kids using parked cars to play hide-and-seek behind. And neither have you.

Open question:

Has anyone on this site seen kids playing hide-and-seek behind parked cars on Lord Street. According to the PNP it seems to be a common occurrence, everyday hazard, and a pressing worry on the minds of parents as they thus struggle to concentrate on trying to do their shopping on Lord Street - meaning that there should be many, many confirmations of this pressing phenomenon.

Kids are unpredictable, particularly younger ones. Foolish is the parent who becomes absorbed with their Lord St window shopping, whilst youngsters supposedly in their care run about. Of course, were the danger from passing traffic to be removed from the equation, free-running kids wouldn't be such a big deal.

[Desert Region]

Kids are unpredictable, particularly younger ones. Foolish is the parent who becomes absorbed with their Lord St window shopping, whilst youngsters supposedly in their care run about. Of course, were the danger from passing traffic to be removed from the equation, free-running kids wouldn't be such a big deal.

In other words - ban cars.

Do delivery vehicles count as traffic? Do cycles and cyclists count as traffic?

[libraryguy]

Kids are unpredictable, particularly younger ones. Foolish is the parent who becomes absorbed with their Lord St window shopping, whilst youngsters supposedly in their care run about. Of course, were the danger from passing traffic to be removed from the equation, free-running kids wouldn't be such a big deal.

God you're deluded. Parents getting absorbed in window shopping? You're having delusions, but then again what's new.

So the solution to all of life's "problems" is to remove vehicular traffic.

Please go back to your cave and let the rest of us get on with living.

[gsgsgs]

Kids are unpredictable, particularly younger ones. Foolish is the parent who becomes absorbed with their Lord St window shopping, whilst youngsters supposedly in their care run about. Of course, were the danger from passing traffic to be removed from the equation, free-running kids wouldn't be such a big deal.

Drag yourself into the 2020's, absorbed window shopping on Lord St! a mishmash of cheap tat, charity shops, bars, cafes, restaurants, empty shops, bargain off licence, European supermarkets, banks, chain coffee shops so please pray tell which would they be absorbed window shopping in?

[The PNP]

In other words - ban cars.

Do delivery vehicles count as traffic? Do cycles and cyclists count as traffic?

As with Chapel St, deliveries could be allowed outside the main shopping hours. Again as with Chapel St, cycling could be allowed. In effect, Lord St between the Monument and the 'Brick would be closed to general traffic, bus-routes excepted (a very low bus-speed-limit of say 10mph would be necessary).

Fact is, there are currently no parking spaces between Monument and 'Brick anyway. So nobody intending to park-up on Lord St to go shopping, would be any worse off than before, because no parking-spaces would be lost.

[The PNP]

Drag yourself into the 2020's, absorbed window shopping on Lord St! a mishmash of cheap tat, charity shops, bars, cafes, restaurants, empty shops, bargain off licence, European supermarkets, banks, chain coffee shops so please pray tell which would they be absorbed window shopping in?

It may surprise you, but to visitors from elsewhere, Lord Street and its shops are famous. Many include a stroll along the shops, as an integral part of their day out.

[Desert Region]

It may surprise you, but to visitors from elsewhere, Lord Street and its shops are famous. Many include a stroll along the shops, as an integral part of their day out.

Who could not get lost in window shopping, strolling by Debenhams?

Which year / decade is it again your imagination resides in?

[silver fox]

As with Chapel St, deliveries could be allowed outside the main shopping hours. Again as with Chapel St, cycling could be allowed. In effect, Lord St between the Monument and the 'Brick would be closed to general traffic, bus-routes excepted (a very low bus-speed-limit of say 10mph would be necessary).

Fact is, there are currently no parking spaces between Monument and 'Brick anyway. So nobody intending to park-up on Lord St to go shopping, would be any worse off than before, because no parking-spaces would be lost.

You're the sort of dipstick who looks for problems which don't exist, then when the imagined problem has been "found" the solution is BAN THE CAR, sorry to say it, but you're at times bordering on seriously loopy.

It may concern you to realise that your utopian dream of cycling paradise is not universal by a long, long way.

Before you start on your usual BS, ref "selfish drivers" "too lazy to walk" etc,etc; take a look at your self, you are the one calling for more restrictions, more bans for private cars, yet all that drivers want is for cyclists to obey the rules of the road, not trying to ban all other forms of transport apart from their chosen method.

[Desert Region]

As with Chapel St, deliveries could be allowed outside the main shopping hours. Again as with Chapel St, cycling could be allowed. In effect, Lord St between the Monument and the 'Brick would be closed to general traffic, bus-routes excepted (a very low bus-speed-limit of say 10mph would be necessary).

Fact is, there are currently no parking spaces between Monument and 'Brick anyway. So nobody intending to park-up on Lord St to go shopping, would be any worse off than before, because no parking-spaces would be lost.

Of course, you'd allow cycling.

A cyclist has never killed or injured anyone? Right?

[The PNP]

Of course, you'd allow cycling.

A cyclist has never killed or injured anyone? Right?

And a person on foot has never killed anyone? Right?