Thanks to Steve for some pictures.
He says “The first was taken at 7.30am yesterday. Not sure if you’ve seen the various rubber marks in the new road surface along Preston Road? But clearly the local nutcases are enjoying the quicker, smoother tarmac. And this car was buried in the hedge outside Thameside School!”
Steve also send a picture of some of the new artwork on Preston Road.
And “a Coots nest along Wilsham Road, sited among the rubbish.”
The tyre marks were showing on Preston Road within 12 hours of the re-surfacing. It was (and is) a depressing reminder of how much we take for granted.
When the road surface get shredded again, there will a chorus of complaint against those responsible for road maintenance …
Why not go to Bruntingthorpe in Leicestershire and rip your tyres to shreds on the concrete surface of the runways there? It will only cost about £1000 for the day after you’ve factored in your guru’s time and a new set of tyres. I know because I’ve done it! The big advantage is the the track is 150 feet wide, so when you come off onto the grass you don’t do any damage.
Perhaps this owner, and any other ones caught, should be fined and the money put towards new road surfacing once it becomes shredded again.
Why would anyone choose to speed down a residential street near a school anyway?
Selfish cretin springs to mind.
those Chicaines work a treat don’t they?
Fine the cretins and use the money to put in a raised speed hump with zebra crossing for the kids in the place of the chicaines. Easy.
The coots nest there every year. I often go and feed the ducks in Margret Brown garden. It’s a nice place to sit when the sun is out 🙂
We have complained about the chicanes but no one will take on board that they are dangerous. If the 150 new houses are allowed to be built Preston Road will become more of a rat run. I have had several head on near misses as cars are parked along the road and cars race down the road on the wrong side taking no notice of the highway code about giving way to oncoming traffic on the right side of the road.
The chicanes are poorly designed and so invite the Lewis Hamilton wannabe to try to drift through. Long chicanes with tighter entrances are extremely effective at slowing traffic; they are also kinder to vehicle suspensions.
This latter consideration is not just of concern when calculating the private motorist’s running repairs. Poorly set up cars are dangerous since they are harder to stop in a straight line and they can add to the degree of road surface where because the weight of the vehicle is not evenly distributed.