| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Brentford High St closure | |
| Posted by: | Stephen Browne | |
| Date/Time: | 09/09/16 17:08:00 |
| It wasn't only cyclists using the pavement at speed, a considerable amount of motor cycles used the pavement to avoid the diversion, particularly the fast food delivery scooters. Given this is a standard footpath with a wall of Holland gardens on one side and a metal raining on the other with a motor cycle in it there is no width left. This went on most of the second week. My discussions with the works people on site to attach a barrier at right angles to the end of the railing to force both motor and bicycles to stop before negotiating a left hand turn (pedestrians with prams would have no issue) met with the usual 'Not me Guv' talk to the office about that. The motor cyclists were so brazen they would come through whilst we were talking IN THE PATH about this very issue. I photographed one with my phone but after she had gone through it transpired there was no number plate on the bike at the front, so whilst she could be identified, the bike couldn't. As for the lycra clad men in tights on the fast cycles, they would come through so fast as we were leaving Holland Gardens by car there were some very close calls indeed as they just suddenly appear out of the gap to the right as you exit. But of course I would have been in the wrong for not giving way to the right, even if the lycra clad twits were coming off the pavement. So clearly Hounslow Highways, that bastion of cause for anything that needs an excuse to be done 'Health & Safety' somehow was off the list of things to consider. Like Adam, as a Holland Gardens resident I too have enjoyed the quiet, but the bahaviour of these divots on motor bikes and cycles should have 1) been expected and 2) be restricted when it was highlighted. |