>"Conor" hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> Sodding Council have just posted a letter proposing a 20MPH on our
>> estate. It doesn't need a bloody 20MPH limit because nobody comes
>> steaming around here anyway. OTOH, they're going to put a traffic
>> island in at the junction at the end of my road. Fucking top idea that
>> - it'll stop the bus from being able to turn right into the estate.
>>
>> And they're wanting to put loads of signage up around the local infants
>> school even though pretty much everyone around here or visiting here
>> knows its here and I counted a total of 13 cars doing the school run.
>>
>> Sent the Highways Engineer an e-mail with my thoughts and pointed out
>> that if he did want to spend the remaining 2007-08 budget, putting in
>> parking restrictions to sort out a seriously bad pinch point on the
>> main road at the bottom of my street might be a better idea. But as
>> that actually solves a problem instead of creating one, it won't be
>> listened to.
>>
>> Creating a 20MPH area with "gateway features" on the entry roads and
>> implementing a "school safety zone" seems a waste of money and
>> completely pointless in an area where I can't recall there being a
>> single accident in the 11+ years I've lived here.

>
>You'll get the standard answer: "won't anyone think of the children", which
>is an effective blackmail approach for almost anything. If you object, you
>are a child murderer (Duhg-logic). Did you not notice the Chancellor using
>the same ploy on Wednesday? The constant mantra of eradicating child poverty
>(as if any children in this country go to school in bare feet and suffer
>serious malnutrition) is an excuse to raise more tax revenue, and you are a
>heartless bastard if you dare contradict.
>