Do barriers serve any purpose?
EDITOR - I quite agree with the concerns of motorists about people walking the wrong side of the pedestrian barriers at the end of Station Road.
The situation is at its worst when the children are going in to school in the mornings, as they play a type of pedestrian Russian roulette walking well into Southgate in front of the traffic.
As a motorist I find it quite disconcerting but we shouldn’t only blame schoolchildren, as adults are equally as bad.
If the purpose of pedestrian barriers is to keep pedestrians on the inside and safe from the traffic, they do not appear to be too effective. In hindsight, perhaps it would have been better if the barriers had originally gone all the way along to the pedestrian crossing on Southgate.
That, I am sure, would have deterred most people from walking in the road and kept the vast majority on the pavement.
As it is, you have to question whether the barriers actually serve any purpose.
M WATTS
Sleaford
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