IT has now become a matter of routine that people drive straight onto the pavement along Blackburn Road at all times of day, even peak times.
The worst, but not exclusive, locations are around the Tramways traffic lights, where the pavement is just wide enough for people to drive their cars and vans off the road completely. A very dangerous manoeuvre, and doubly dangerous when they try to get back into peak hour traffic, sometimes by reversing against the flow of traffic. It's deadly in these winter months for pedestrians to be confronted by vehicles on the pavement.
At this junction recently, at peak time 5.30pm, I was driving out of town when a box van, about three vehicles in front, drove off the kerb, so that he was about three quarters off the road and parked up immediately in front of the traffic lights on double yellow lines, completely obscuring the view of the lights.
These dangerous manoeuvres are becoming so commonplace, along with 'U' turns on main roads at peak times by private hire vehicles, that they are in danger of being accepted.
Regular road user
Bolton
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