A safety barrier installed to protect primary school children from passing motorists has been moved because it was repeatedly struck by cars.
Council officials were forced to move the four-foot high metal railing, designed to protect children from cars negotiating a tight bend outside Pensford Primary School, near Bristol, after it was hit four times in two years.
It has now been moved around 30 centimetres away from the roadside, into the middle of the pavement.
Dan Norris, Labour MP for Wansdyke, told The Daily Telegraph that he felt the decision was “extraordinary” and had put children at increased risk.
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Re: Crash barrier is 'too dangerous'
Me!
There isn't one area of industry/business/publc sector etc that doesn't make a stupid decision at some tme or another. I don't hear people clamouring for mass redundancies in the other sectors. (And yes, you DO pay for them, through higher service/product prices)
The truth of it is that he general public has no idea of the contributon the public sector makes to their lives. It is totally taken for granted, until instances like this.
Re: Crash barrier is 'too dangerous'
Anybody out there still not think the public sector has far too many jobsworths who deserve to be put on the dole rather than hoovering up our taxpayers money?
Re: Crash barrier is 'too dangerous'
Is there any truth in the rumour that the same Council want to move the barrier on the central reservation of the M4 to the side of the motorway....as drivers have been known to collide with it in its current location?