May Gurney have excelled themselves this time. It is not uncommon for them to obstruct pavements illegally, but they normally leave more than the 640mm they did yesterday to the right of the first sign in this picture, followed by 950mm to the left of a second one. Neat to make pedestrians weave one way and then the other. Why? did they not think, or don’t they actually care? Needless to say, both of these leave less than the mandatory 1m and advisory 1.5m of pedestrians.
I have emailed the company, explaining that I have removed the first sign into storage for health and safety reasons. Given how ineffective emails have been in the past, I have also suggested that they refund my costs, which I have calculated at £5 for the email and £5 per week, or part thereof for storage. I have reminded them that they also own me £1 for a phone call made to Anglian Water when they blocked another nearby pavement some time back. I have offered to give the money to Living Streets, and suggested that they can make a cheque out to that organisation if they prefer.
No idea if this will wake them up, but emails, complaints and blog-posts alone have achieved absolutely nothing over the past 2 years.
The Law is disregarded by such companies, because they know they are most unlikely to be prosecuted. All such Laws will remain irrelevant to such companies, unless and until the risk of prosecution increases and the penalties hurt.
This is true of all these regulations. People regularly flout the law because they know that the chances of them being fined/prosecuted are so low as to be laughable. As you so rightly say, until/unless this changes, no one will bother with obeying any of these laws and pedestrians will continue to get the short straw.
Reblogged this on A Riverside View and commented:
Pity I didn’t publish the picture of the cone over the drain with roadworks signs each side of it in Aster Road.
Any update/response yet Peter?
Nope. Nothing. Given their lack of interest in their signs or our issue I thought I might turn their sign into part of a new chicken run. When I have done this I will do a blog post about i so people can admire my work!