🚀 go-pugleaf

Andy Mabbett of Birmingham ASSIST 
  posted this to birmingham.misc on Thu, 12 Feb 1998 16:17:41 +0000

' >~ There is already a stretch of pavement in Birmingham with a white line down 
' >the
' >~ middle and arrows telling you to walk on the left.
' >~ And a non-stop loudspeaker announcement telling you to do the same.
' >~ 
' >~ It's not yet illegal to ignore the arrows and announcement, but how long 
' >before
' >~ some nutcase councillor decides to pass a bylaw ?
' >
' >I know it well - the ramp from the pallasades down to new street.

' My colleagues in the Transportation Department have asked me to point
' out that the ramp gets _extremely_ busy, especially on Saturdays, before
' Christmas and at sale time.

How about making it narrower then, or introducing a speed limit, or tolls, or
introducing pedestrian calming, or just threaten to stop people using it
altogether.

The City Council seem to think such techniques work for cars.

Chris