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I realise that diversion routes for motorists need to be signed and indeed have been annoyed in the past when they haven't been, but surely it's not beyond the wit of humankind to devise a way to deploy the signs that doesn't involve completely blocking an already narrow pavement in the middle of the main village street, as has been done here? :-

I have sent this picture and a complaint to the local District Council, as it must be hugely awkward for the several local residents who I see traversing the streets on mobility scooters and for the many folk with pushchairs and the like.

ETA :- The District Council got back to me almost immediately, albeit to say they'd passed my email on to the County Council, who are apparently the ones responsible.

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I think a lot of the time it's that people just don't think, but that doesn't help when you have the inconvenience of dealing with the results...

Incidentally, the District Council have got back to me already and say they've forwarded my email to the County Council, as apparently they're in charge of that sort of thing.

I think delivery drivers are trained to find the most inconvenient place to stop, even when there is a really logical and non-obstructive place for them. Rather like bus drivers who refuse to pull in even where there is plenty of room.

Nrgh. I notice that, in order to take the photo, you stood a couple of feet away in a niche that might have provided a bit of foot-traffic space had it been used for the sign. Still no good for scooters/pushchairs, but duh!

Well yes. The pavement widens a bit beyond it too. It's as if they deliberately picked the narrowest spot possible. But they wouldn't do that, of course, would they? ;(

Oh good grief! That's ridiculous! I'd have thought that road menders (or whoever it was that put the sign in such a dangerous place) were more competent than that these days. I can't quite see how high the kerb is, but a scooter user might not be able to steer round the sign without overbalancing. I hope they sort it out soon.

The kerb is a good five or six inches up from the roadway. There's no way a scooter could get down it safely, IMO. I'm not sure where the nearest dropped curb is, but I think it's a good way back from there.

People just don't seem to think do they? Bah!

Thanks for doing this, says a wheelchair user! If not too livid please would you post this tale on

friendly_crips too?

By all means. I'll be over in a bit :)

What they said: There would have been a niche where you are standing that would allow most people to keep walking had they placed the sign there.

It's not very much wider there though, so it would still have been a problem for folk with mobility scooters and pushchairs.

No reply from the County Council yet. I forgot to check if the sign was still there today.

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