Same here, although I'm on foot - but people still persist in even walking down the road. It's... so very clearly signposted. I think some of it is 'village mentality', the same thing that causes people to not indicate when turning off a main road, because they're in their own village and people in it should be psychic, you know?
It's a dangerous road - as I said to, er, Matt, above, I've almost been hit on it before. The new pavement / cyclepath makes me a happy bunny, but seeing people not use it makes me angry. The only thing I can think of is some bizarre and deep-seated grudge against the company I work for who built both it and the bridge, and the company who employed them, that own the land adjacent to it.
Having said all that, I think a certain degree of it is plain stupidity by the people in the village. One guy emailed us asking why the road was closed when they were building the roundabout and preparing to build the bridge; my boss replied that it was regulation because we were using diggers and the like - one road fairly recently at the time had operated on a one-lane closure system, and a digger had swung around, misjudged the distance and hit the side of a bus in the open lane. ...The guy emailed back asking why we couldn't just build a temporary road over the crop field owned by a local farmer that was situated beside the closed road.
Well that's just like when the police close a road. They then have to endure endless people assuming they can go through despite the 'road closed' signs, the police cars, the police officer standing by it and the other police officers investigating an accident and scraping bodies off the tarmac further up. Why?
It's a dangerous road - as I said to, er, Matt, above, I've almost been hit on it before. The new pavement / cyclepath makes me a happy bunny, but seeing people not use it makes me angry. The only thing I can think of is some bizarre and deep-seated grudge against the company I work for who built both it and the bridge, and the company who employed them, that own the land adjacent to it.
Having said all that, I think a certain degree of it is plain stupidity by the people in the village. One guy emailed us asking why the road was closed when they were building the roundabout and preparing to build the bridge; my boss replied that it was regulation because we were using diggers and the like - one road fairly recently at the time had operated on a one-lane closure system, and a digger had swung around, misjudged the distance and hit the side of a bus in the open lane. ...The guy emailed back asking why we couldn't just build a temporary road over the crop field owned by a local farmer that was situated beside the closed road.
And then people wonder why I want to move house.
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'But I need to go through here'
*sigh*
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