tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8208852.post3064083446963190395..comments2023-10-22T16:55:39.016+01:00Comments on Maureen Rigg's Blog: Cars, schools and pedestriansMaureen Rigghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09668706709158698743noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8208852.post-73505303000717599092011-11-10T21:40:37.530+00:002011-11-10T21:40:37.530+00:00I'll certainly try to answer the points you ma...I'll certainly try to answer the points you make and don't mind this being anonymous at all - I quite understand your reasons in this case.Maureen Rigghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09668706709158698743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8208852.post-47279453772793949102011-11-10T09:38:07.644+00:002011-11-10T09:38:07.644+00:00Maureen. The orchard estate suffers from three maj...Maureen. The orchard estate suffers from three major problems, all caused by the inhabitants.<br />1. Inconsiderate and downright dangerous, selfish parking. Some cars are parked with almost all wheels on the pavement, making it impossible for even a fully mobile person to pass without stepping into the road. If you want to see an example of this, try an evening stroll down Mayfield Crescent, and look around the post box.<br />2. Youths with their little go-faster supper minis, tearing around the estate with illegal exhausts, sounding horns rather than getting out to call for their mates, and driving at speeds which I estimate at over 30mph.<br />3. Younger children, up to about 12, on scooters and bikes with absolutely no road sense. Every day in the summer I witness examples of this, even the paper boy drove across a car the other day, his attention taken by his ipod in his ears. Some of the youngsters around the aforementioned postbox will I am sure come to great grief soon.<br /><br />Its only when you add these three problems together that you have the makings of a serious tragedy, which I hope never happens.<br />I have lived on the orchard for twenty years, but it is only in the last couple of years that I have noticed the increase in these problems.<br /><br />Could you please, through this blog, tell us just exactly what the legal position is with regard to pavement parking, and whether some resources can be spent in trying to prevent the next sad headline.<br /><br />I know you don't like anonymous postings, but in view of my comments I will have to remain so.PMnoreply@blogger.com