Exhibition Road was an accident waiting to happen
We were there yesterday morning, before the minicab hit eleven people outside the Natural History Museum, and remarked even then how unsafe Exhibition Road felt.
We were visiting the V&A but came before opening time, so strolled up the road past the NHM – already there was a long queue of families waiting to get in there; it was much longer when we came out of the V&A after noon.
For most of its length, Exhibition Road has no curb (so much for “car mounted pavement” in the Guardian and Daily Star) or traffic lanes.
What look like “pavement” demarcation lines in the above photo from the excited coverage in the Daily Mail five or six years ago are actually drainage, and now from ground level they are almost invisible, as seen in the more recent picture below:
| Image cropped from Google Maps Street View |
The criss-cross pattern in the block paving seems expressly intended to confuse boundaries – and it was! The “continuous shared space” – an idea adopted from Holland – was to make “motorists take more personal responsibility for their own actions and drive more attentively”, i.e. make accidents easier to happen. The same logic would have local Councils mist-spraying pavements in icy weather so that people would walk more carefully.
Whichever authorities govern the road, they have resiled somewhat from the bash-nanny approach and there is now the odd metal post and concrete flower box to give us hedgehoggy pedestrians some assurance that we’re not standing in the middle of what old Brummies used to call “the ‘orse road”. But yesterday it wasn’t enough.
There may well have been other factors in that collision; this was another one.
Source: http://theylaughedatnoah.blogspot.com/2017/10/exhibition-road-was-accident-waiting-to.html
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