Re: peninsula motorcycle forum
Posted: Nov 7th, '08, 17:03
A while ago I was heading home, and came up through countess weir onto the Sandygate link road. Heeled it into the corner only to see a copper flagging me down - they'd narrowed it down to the outer lane only because of an accident 
As I went around, you could see a bike wedged into the gap between the bottom of the Armco and the bottom rail.
It was not long after I'd had a note from these people, and I wrote a letter to them suggesting they put a second row of barrier beneath the existing to fill the void and stop other bikes being wedged or even more importantly stop a sliding rider hitting a post ......... within a few weeks (and ever since) there was a second row of barriers there .....
Now whether that was as a result of my letter, or whether they were going to do it anyway, I don't care - the point is something was done. Hasn't got them to replace the cheese-grater wire in other places though .....
The thing is, any event like this is bound to have the nanny-state, apron-string clutching safety types coming out the wood-work ....... but doesn't that just make it more important to get more "normal" perspectives across
I feel like turning up just for a laugh (given my current condition ...... 
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As I went around, you could see a bike wedged into the gap between the bottom of the Armco and the bottom rail.It was not long after I'd had a note from these people, and I wrote a letter to them suggesting they put a second row of barrier beneath the existing to fill the void and stop other bikes being wedged or even more importantly stop a sliding rider hitting a post ......... within a few weeks (and ever since) there was a second row of barriers there .....
Now whether that was as a result of my letter, or whether they were going to do it anyway, I don't care - the point is something was done. Hasn't got them to replace the cheese-grater wire in other places though .....
The thing is, any event like this is bound to have the nanny-state, apron-string clutching safety types coming out the wood-work ....... but doesn't that just make it more important to get more "normal" perspectives across
I feel like turning up just for a laugh (given my current condition ...... )