24 December - Speed indicators in Abbey Road
Mr. Filey is on the ball isn’t he? Just two days after he received my report
about the non-working speed indicators in Abbey Road they were working again. A pity the email took two
weeks to get through the council bureaucracy and that Andrew Bashford didn’t pass on my enquiry
of last September. Mr. Filey says he relies on reports by council staff and members of the public.
Councillor Davey must pass the speed indicators fairly regularly (it’s his ward) and one must wonder why a councillor
can’t be bothered to mention them. Councillor Davey has quite a track record of
standing idly by when things go wrong. Just what is the man for?
Traffic was being slowed by the water in ‘Bashford Bay’ just down the road
but in the 15 minutes I spent watching the indicator the fastest I saw was 42 m.p.h. For some reason as
each car passed the sign it consistently and instantly flicked over to a much lower speed without the vehicle
appearing to have slowed. When the weather improves I shall look again. There are no photos of the speeding
traffic because either the digital camera doesn’t register the flashing display or I was very unlucky
with the timing of the 13 pictures I took. I’ll experiment to see if I can do better.