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Post by cebcom on Dec 4, 2012 13:20:42 GMT
We have been fighting with the local council to try to get them to improve safety on the road outside our yard. In their wisdom, they have placed a 60mph National Speed Limit sign 30 metres before our yard exit on a blind bend. Cars, vans and lorrys come round the bend at high speed and have almost zero warning of us coming out of our yard to exercise the horses. We have made this video showing the dangers and fully expect that most of you have similar issues - our roads are becoming death traps and it isn't helped by councils sitting on their hands while encouraging speeding in dangerous situations. If you watch the vid, many thanks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_es8R5aAhEU |
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Post by BettyBo on Dec 4, 2012 13:36:10 GMT
Watched your video it's quite scary especially the lorry!!! Can't you ask the council if you can move the sign and all club together to pay for it being moved I know at the end of the day it shouldn't be down to you but you are getting nowhere with the council.
Another idea that has worked very well down our local lane, we made a dummy man and dresses it in a hi vis the ones that say "polite notice" and painted a box black with a mirror on the front of it to look like a hand held speed camera we then positioned our dummy just before the bend so all cars and lorries slowed down the effect was dramatic.
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Post by cebcom on Dec 4, 2012 13:45:22 GMT
Thank you! We are going through the options at the moment and that is definitely one that we will be considering. Quite ingenious really - thanks.  |
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Post by ruftytuftyrider on Dec 4, 2012 22:31:33 GMT
I know you are hitting your head against a brick wall with the local council but are you dealing with council officers or councillors.
I had a recent issue with huge lorries using local lane which is only just wider than the lorries, council officer was very unhelpful and offensive but got in touch with local ward councillors and one of them has been very pro-active and together we have got them stopped.
If you do not known who your local ward councillors are this information is available on the council website. You can also find out the names of the councillors who deal with highways and target them specifically.
I also as well as contacting local councillor copied my email and responses received to the Chief Executive of Council and he too took a pro-active view and got things moving.
One suggestion that our council offered was to get the local police to target specific styles of lorries using the road - the council officer organised this with the local police.
I hope you can get this sorted out sooner rather than later.
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Post by nia2311 on Dec 4, 2012 23:25:27 GMT
Agree with Ruftytuftyrider, I would approach your elected local councillors, if you haven't already. My two councillors have been very helpful and proactive when I have addressed issues to them, and have never ignored me, or failed to take some sort of action. I was very disappointed when one lost the last local election!!!
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Post by cebcom on Dec 5, 2012 18:59:06 GMT
Thanks to everyone who has viewed or commented. All of your suggestions will be followed up because we will not give in to a petty bureaucracy that doesn't care if we are at risk because it saves them a few hundred quid. This weekend, we will be using the attached BHS picture at poster size made into signs for the road. I am also sending it to the council and my lazy MP.
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Post by nia2311 on Dec 5, 2012 19:34:56 GMT
Getting your MP involved is a good idea, as is distributing the poster. I hope you get somewhere with your complaint
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Post by lucynlizzysmum on Dec 5, 2012 20:26:13 GMT
Can't get vid to download as we have an incredibly slow broadband connection  but best of luck with this - keep lobbying everyone you can think of. The bit I have seen of the vid shows there is nowhere to go if a vehicle comes up behind/toward you ! |
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Post by BettyBo on Dec 5, 2012 20:28:46 GMT
Thanks to everyone who has viewed or commented. All of your suggestions will be followed up because we will not give in to a petty bureaucracy that doesn't care if we are at risk because it saves them a few hundred quid. This weekend, we will be using the attached BHS picture at poster size made into signs for the road. I am also sending it to the council and my lazy MP. That's a brilliant idea the bigger the better x |
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Post by james03x on Dec 10, 2012 11:55:52 GMT
This is really dangerous road and you should to be careful for driving on this road.
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Post by jesterjaxon on Dec 13, 2012 9:22:59 GMT
hi, we had a similar problem of a 60mph limit on a blind bend past the entrance to our yard, we got our local parish council involved and they were brilliant, they got the county council speed limit guy out on a site visit and we arranged for horses to be ridden past him at the same time and gave him a demonstration of sorts of how dangerous it was to be on a horse on the road! After a long and determined battle the council agreed to move the national speed limit sign approx three quarters of a mile further down the road so we now have 30mph outside our yard and on the worst parts of the road! It was the intervention of our parish council and their dedication and determination on our part that persudaed the council! If you need any info on what we did please feel free to pm me!  |
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Post by cebcom on Dec 14, 2012 16:46:59 GMT
hi, we had a similar problem of a 60mph limit on a blind bend past the entrance to our yard, we got our local parish council involved and they were brilliant, they got the county council speed limit guy out on a site visit and we arranged for horses to be ridden past him at the same time and gave him a demonstration of sorts of how dangerous it was to be on a horse on the road! After a long and determined battle the council agreed to move the national speed limit sign approx three quarters of a mile further down the road so we now have 30mph outside our yard and on the worst parts of the road! It was the intervention of our parish council and their dedication and determination on our part that persudaed the council! If you need any info on what we did please feel free to pm me! Thank you so much to everyone for taking the time to give some great tips. It seems to me that if you need anything done, local parish councillors are the way to go. We will be progressing this in the new year and will update when we get some news. Why are actual council employees so blxxdy obtuse and awkward? |
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Post by horseboxapp on Jan 10, 2013 9:36:38 GMT
What a lot of the farmers do around us in similar situations is to have a curved mirror on the opposite side of the road, it's not a fix but it should make it a little safer until the council makes the changes.
It could even help out after the change, for when people are speeding.
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Post by brt on Jan 10, 2013 9:55:09 GMT
If you own the land on the bend then you are entitled to put a sign up asking them to slow down on your side of the hedge.
We have a similar problem to you, our lane has become a rat run for cars and HGV's going up to an industrial estate.
The council won't put a sign up as it has spent millions putting a dual carriageway in for the Ind Est.
We are errecting a sign in our hedge warning drivers of a blind exit and horses.
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Post by midummer on Apr 15, 2013 21:23:52 GMT
Very good explanatory video and the best of luck dealing with the council who are more concerned with H & S issues that we shouldnt climb on chairs to put up Christmas decorations in the office than on any real life issues
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but best of luck with this - keep lobbying everyone you can think of. The bit I have seen of the vid shows there is nowhere to go if a vehicle comes up behind/toward you !
