£1 Million Spend in Oswaldtwistle - Page 2

garinda · 24-11-2005, 18:39

Forgive my thinking, but we are supposed to stop at mini-roundabouts and give way to the traffic from the right, just like at a larger roundabout. This sounds like a load of bollocks to me.

firefighter753 · 27-11-2005, 18:47

A couple of speed cameras and speed humps or chicanes would work as well and cost alot less than a roundabout, I have attended several accidents at these crossroads over the years two of them fatal, and speed is the cause everytime, you just can't get across the road when some nutter is flying along at 80 plus. Just slow down the idiots.

Gayle · 27-11-2005, 21:09

Was just coming back from my Mother in Laws in Blackburn and they were clearing away what looked like another nasty accident. Hope no one was injured but the car didn't look too pretty.

park381 · 10-12-2005, 21:56

Not a lot of room for a "real" roundabout, but yes something needs doing with the junction. Will need some re-shaping of the roads in to the junction, not much they can do on the Brit side, but across the road is there not some "spare" land.
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.sr...3389&ay=426960

Neil · 10-12-2005, 22:48

Like I said before, I have seen the plans. The roundabout is going between the current crossroads and the row of houses towards Oswaldtwistle. It is moved sideways from the crossroads into the field opposite the Britannia

garinda · 10-12-2005, 23:06

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Originally Posted by Neil

Like I said before, I have seen the plans. The roundabout is going between the current crossroads and the row of houses towards Oswaldtwistle. It is moved sideways from the crossroads into the field opposite the Britannia

It was quoted as costing £600,000 in the press. Where's the other four hundred grand gone, or was that just your artistic licence when headlining this thread?

Neil · 11-12-2005, 06:19

The project manager for the roundabout said £900,000 not including any compulsary land purchases. Don't believe everything you read in the press

park381 · 11-12-2005, 09:01

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Originally Posted by Neil

The project manager for the roundabout said £900,000 not including any compulsary land purchases. Don't believe everything you read in the press

What ever, action on that junction is long overdue, don't think cost is all that important, if it saves lives its a good thing.

garinda · 11-12-2005, 17:20

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Originally Posted by park381

What ever, action on that junction is long overdue, don't think cost is all that important, if it saves lives its a good thing.

I am not hopefully speaking ill of the dead, and I applaud the family of the young man who died for campaiging to highlight this dreadful junction, but the inquest found he was speeding. I also know someone who lived near him, and he always drove like a bat out of hell. I've seen him drive away from where he lived at break neck speed as little children played in the street.

I still think a mini-roundabout would have been more cost effective, and resulted in the same ends, namely slowing people down as they tear along Haslingden Old Road.

Neil · 11-12-2005, 17:24

People drive over mini roundabouts. I don't think it would be as good as a big'un

garinda · 11-12-2005, 17:31

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Originally Posted by Neil

People drive over mini roundabouts. I don't think it would be as good as a big'un

Yes but you have to stop or slow down to do it. People that carry on driving at over fifty miles an hour and drive across mini-roundabouts deserve to die, and hopefully don't take any innocent people with them.

Gayle · 11-12-2005, 17:38

One reason for accidents is visibility. If you look at the junction, three of the four roads leading up to it slope down, so it's very hard to see if anyone is speeding up to it. One in particular, the one that runs down the side of the pub has no visibility of the junction on the run up to it.

Better signage and some sort of slowing devices on the road - bumps or markings - would also be essential. I presume, Neil, that that's part of the scheme?

Neil · 11-12-2005, 17:41

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Originally Posted by garinda

People that carry on driving at over fifty miles an hour and drive across mini-roundabouts deserve to die

I must take you for a drive sometime

garinda · 11-12-2005, 17:44

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Originally Posted by Neil

I must take you for a drive sometime

If you don't slow down, and drive over mini-roundabouts, I'll have jumped out of the car before we even get to the bottom of Fielding Lane, never mind make it to Entwistle.

Neil · 11-12-2005, 17:49

In yours perverse little dreams mate