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"The only real way to stop this behaviour are chicanes"
I see your chicanes and I raise you; sniper!
I live near a primary school and see a lot of mums with their foot down and/or on the phone.
I guess they drive to school because it's too dangerous to walk the kids because of all the cunt drivers.
Hahaha! This, all day long.
Just a shame the same police force weren't three miles up the road on the same day to catch this anti-social scumbag: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRV2nn0VC4Q
In Canada overtaking any vehicle is banned outside schools when the kids are about and all fines and points are doubled for any road traffic offence during term time outside a school. (It's the same for road works). It's not only satisfying to see people punished for taking risks with other peoples children that they (I'd like to think) wouldn't take with their own kids or members of their family but it sets a tone that you have to take this things seriously which road traffic policing, enforcement and punishment in the UK completely fails to do.
The real problem is that speeding and endangering other people is socially acceptable, but how to change that perception? Well done to GMP for doing this work and highlighting the problem.
Road policing has been devalued over the years, and most drivers break the law every time they get in their car. Enforcing road laws should be a much higher priority, and if anything else caused the death and destruction of driving, it would either be banned or very, very tightly regulated, but because it's cars, people just shrug their shoulders and accept it.
If these drivers are happy to speed past a school, how fast would they drive on roads without a school?
Most parents seem to get back to speeding once they've dropped THEIR kids off. Kids out , foot down.
This is the view just 100 yards in the other direction https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.4171487,-2.2268212,3a,75y,272.99h,66.49t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sVa5P2tM3Th4P5HujRNAb5g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1
There are parked cars on the street all the way along, massive potholes. The road widens and so drivers just floor it past the school. The only real way to stop this behaviour are chicanes.