chicane

Christine Guinness, Ashley Halstead and Clive Grattan, all Rushmoor borough councillors for the Cherrywood ward, have launched a petition asking Hampshire County Council to install chicanes on both Cherrywood Road and Wren Way, which have a 30mph limit.

Aberdeenshire Council is considering implementing traffic islands, cycle lanes and chicanes on roads in Newmachar to improve safety in the community.

It's difficult to take reassurances on traffic flow seriously from a council which has peppered its roads with chicanes, humps and bollards in recent years.

Another idea is to install "street furniture" such as chicanes and humps.

"I would say that we could put that in as a phase one, and phase two a pedestrian crossing if that was successful." Villagers want chicanes incorporating a pedestrian crossing, though road chiefs say chicanes are impractical because they would "create conflict" between vehicles.

He said the council had introduced chicanes along sections of the road to create parking bays.

For towns, the researchers concluded that chicanes slowed drivers the most, followed by parked cars on both sides of the road.

Will somebody remove the bumps, chicanes and road narrowing?

Flicking it left/right through chicanes isn't a major drama either.

It seems that we have weeks, sometimes months, of delays due to roadworks, which often result in a new system that will inconvenience the motorist even more than before, eg central reservations, speed humps, bus lanes, chicanes etc.

Improvements, including installing chicanes and road humps, have not solved the problem.