Brock Road no entry ‘ignored by lazy drivers’
Wednesday 29th September 2010, 2:29PM BST.
It was a leak at the home of Ian Griffiths which led to the closure of Brock Road. He had nothing but praise for the speed with which Guernsey Gas responded. (Picture by Adrian Miller, 1033898)
POLICE patrols were yesterday on alert after some motorists ignored temporary no-entry signs and risked accidents at Brock Road, St Peter Port.
Environment had to close the road at 5pm on Monday for repairs following a gas leak on Friday.
Its usual one-way flow northwards from the top of the Grange was reversed, meaning drivers had to gain access from the opposite end.
However, the set-up caused problems for some drivers on Monday night. As it was not completely blocked off, many ignored a no-entry sign near the College of Further Education site, risking some close shaves with oncoming traffic.
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“As it was not completely blocked off”
There’s your problem.
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Whenever possible workers leave a route through works in order to allow emergency vehicle access should it be required.
But you know better eh Greg.
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Road closure signs should be observed – end of story. A total physical barrier is just not practical.
From what I saw yesterday, the ‘problem’ was also some drivers were exiting Doyles forecourt, automatically turning right whilst ignoring the big sign right in front of them – in the same way they usually ignore any pedestrians approaching from either direction.
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I’m not surprised that many drivers ignore ‘Road Closed’ signs when so many roads are closed needlessly for weeks on end. In my street a couple of years back the whole road was closed for a month because a small garden wall was being rebuilt (very slowly.) The workmen only came out a yard into the road but both ways were closed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. King’s Mills is closed one way at the moment because of roofing work. Fair enough, but the work takes place only about 40 hours out of 168 a week.
Its a disgrace that roads are closed so freely causing motorists to do huge, polluting diversions needlessly. Charge people wishing to close a road ££ per hour and we would have a massive reduction in closures.
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Some people just dont get it! I live at Amherst which is currently closed, and the amount of people who just ignore the closed sign and just drive up is ridiculous! There is no way through so they have to turn around and come back down. The road is busy enough when it was not closed, now it is really busy because muppets cant read or are just ignorant, or maybe they think they have a wacky racers car with stilts or somthing? Just take the diversion like 90% of the other people do! Rant over
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Not somebody else having a go at the “poor old Guernsey motorist” again!.
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Hang on, that road sign was not telling us it was closed, on monday it said access as far as rosaire avenue, which is where i was going with no probs, Tuesday morning the same sign saying access to rosaire, turned in to be faced with a ronaz lorry filling in the hole and the road blocked off. i turned around, read the sign again which still said access as far as rosaire ave so I wasn’t best part please that the sign was wrong!
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Greg Gregson…aka…GG by any chance?
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