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this helps explain :
I live in an area where there are lots of older drivers. The old rules didn't apply to them so i'm not sure the new rules are going to make any difference.
In Worcester the Council have had to replace two Zebra crossings with Pelican crossings to reduce the level of pollution in the city centre and improve air quality.
With the Zebra crossing road traffic was backed up all through town, because pedestrians were continually walking across them, so the traffic could not move creating big delays for drivers and passengers as well as reducing air quality below acceptable limits because of the exhaust fumes from the stationary vehicles.
With the Pelican crossings traffic moves more freely, because traffic and pedestrians take it in turns to cross reducing traffic delays and improving air quality.
These new rules have the potential to create severe traffic congestion in some places and decrease air quality, the outcome may be an increased number of Pelican and Toucan crossings to improve air quality.
Things are never quite as simple as they may first appear.
I had to google 'toucan crossing'! (Apparently they are where cyclists and pedestrians have lights to cross the road).
The problems with the Zebra crossings was that one was on a foot route between the city centre and the foot bridge across the river to another part of town with university campuses either side of the crossing, the other linked the city centre to a retail park, one of the mainline railway stations along with another part of town, so both very busy pedestrian routes.
Generally traffic flows get broken up by traffic lights along the routes, so there are generally breaks in traffic to allow pedestrians to cross and vehicles to pull of side roads.
However if these new rules in place I can think of a few places where it has the potential to create havoc. There’s a couple of private schools where several hundred students leave on foot with many walking to another railway station in town, from February a car turning off the main road will potentially have to wait until several hundred people have crossed the road blocking all through traffic, which is what the problem was with the now removed Zebra crossings.
The only answer is don’t use those roads, but with limited river crossings it’s not that easy. It’s just under forty nine miles to the M4 Severn Bridge from my home in the Midlands and there’s ten places to cross the River Severn including the three motorway bridges. So it sounds like it should not be a problem getting from one side to the other, but all the old bridges are mainly in towns so the traffic has to pass through those towns, hence any slight hold up can cause chaos. It will be interesting to see how it all works out.
Anyone doing garden and landscape maintenance actually in city centres may need to rethink how they access these jobs or if they are even worth doing with all the other restrictions on driving and parking in such areas. I now generally decline any work where there’s residents parking schemes unless I am provided with a parking space or permit.
round here they are on about putting courtesy crossings in from what i can make out no one has a right of way but with this new highway code listing it will be a nightmare for all consernd