Thursday, April 15, 2010

Annes Rd/Prospect Rd Crossing

This is what the cycle lane leading to the crossing from the south looked like originally:-

No dropped kerb, just a short stretch of pavement painted red with some symbols on it.
Following some complaints, and the mentioning of some words like "Warirngton" which may or may not have had  an effect, the council have now made quite a nice job of it:-


They've left the original cycle lane as you can see but otherwise made a nice wide shared area. However, the devil as ever is in the detail. On this occasion you couldn't access the dropped crossing because a car was parked across it (the photo was taken on match day, Bramall Lane is just down the road) If the double yellows had been stretched a bit further this would have solved this problem. The other issue is that the bollards on the other side are too close together to allow HPV*'s, wide trailers etc to get through (Heeley City Farm has several of these and there are others in the area - you can see the back end of one in the top picture.) So, 7 out of 10 perhaps?

*Human  Powered  Vehicles -freight carriers etc.

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