Parish Cake Autumn 2017
Your slice of Cranbrook and Sissinghurst life - published by Cranbrook and Sissinghurst Parish Council
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Stone Street Traffic Hazards<br />
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Phil Mummery shares his thoughts on why unthinking drivers are making Stone Street so dangerous<br />
LIKE THE Grand Canyon in the US of<br />
A it is full of hazards, though ours<br />
are man, and dare I say it, woman<br />
made.<br />
I am amazed by the stupidity of<br />
a minority of drivers. Firstly, those<br />
who don’t know the width of their<br />
own vehicles; two 4X4s can pass in<br />
Stone Street, I’ve checked.<br />
I find it amazing how shortsighted<br />
many (dare I say it, local)<br />
drivers are. They can’t see beyond<br />
the end of their noses. There’s a bus<br />
coming through, so some idiot tries<br />
to beat it. This ends up blocking the<br />
street so everybody is stuck, or even more seriously mounting<br />
the pavement causing problems for all pedestrians with or<br />
without prams.<br />
Your wheels are illegally on the pavement, there’s nothing in<br />
sight but what about the little child who is about to dash out of<br />
the aptly named Morts Alley!<br />
Your wheels have run over it just<br />
because you had no patience (too<br />
late to be sorry now).<br />
Then there is parking: Once<br />
again I keep seeing things. Are<br />
they yellow lines in Stone Street?<br />
They can’t be because I see vehicles<br />
parked there every day. If you<br />
are coming from the High Street,<br />
trying to negotiate the parked cars<br />
because their owners are too lazy<br />
to use the car parks, there is usually<br />
chaos.<br />
Why spend money on enforcing<br />
solutions like traffic lights (costly<br />
and unsightly), wardens and cameras? How much pleasanter<br />
and safer if we all used common sense and consideration for<br />
others.<br />
I’ve stated the obvious I know, but if that minority of drivers<br />
don’t reform there will be a fatality. There are no excuses. Let us<br />
all remember it is our town, we make it what it is.<br />
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