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How to slow traffic?
29-Oct-2007
As a result of a community appraisal I have recently run in Airlie I am left with the question – ‘how can we make our village safer from speeding cars?’ The residents in villages along the A926 all complain about how vehicles ignore speed restrictions. The A926 is very straight when it goes through the villages so drivers are loath to slow down, even despite there being a PS on the road.
Has anybody had any success in working to slow traffic in their village under similar circumstances?
Neil Paterson
Has anybody had any success in working to slow traffic in their village under similar circumstances?
Neil Paterson
29-Oct-2007
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Road Safety Scotland develop and co-ordinate road safety initiatives and campaigns. I wonder if they might be aware of any villages who have tackled the problem of slowing traffic? Their website might be worth a look. They also have an email news bulletin.
http://www.road-safety.org.uk/index.asp
GlenBoggin solution to traffic calming (comedy warning)
12-Dec-2007 @ 12:38PM
Rob Kay
Sheep usually do the trick here in Upper GlenBoggin. Following a tendering exercise (we aren't daft you know, and there is good money to be made from traffic jams) we have sub-let the traffic-calming contract to a couple of Big Issue vendors (yes they get everywhere these days, and they have terrific skills with the woolly critters!) to drive the sheep from one side of the road to the other every ten minutes or so. The great economic advantage is the increased traffic to our local co-operatively owned cafe and post office, which does a roaring trade in fags, Irn Bru and proprietary anti-depressants...just ten minutes stuck behind the flock usually does the job...and believe it or not the Big Issue sales have gone through the roof as it's a condition of moving the sheep on that folk buy a copy...you could call it a win-win scenario.
Of course we have another strategy as well especially for when the conditions are too cold and dark: its amazing how many potholes you can dig in the tarmac without being arrested as long as the local polis keep getting their case of 15 year old Glenboggin single malt delivered to their back door in an unmarked brown cardboard box every Christmas. Who pays for the malt? Why me at the Boggin garage of course, someone has to fix all those ruptured tyres and broken half shafts after all, and as the only garage within 50 miles we know when we are on to a good thing. Business has never been better and the Glen's economy is doing nicely, than you...