Telford is no longer UK’s most car-friendly town
Wednesday 14th July 2010, 6:00PM BST.
Telford has lost its crown as the UK’s most car-friendly town, it was revealed today.
The town, which had been in the top spot for the last two years, was pipped by St Helens in Merseyside and named the second most car-friendly town.
London was the worst spot for motorists, according to the research.
St Helens scored well on such things as petrol prices, parking costs and the number of speed cameras in an assessment carried out by Virgin Money Car Insurance.
London’s 600 speed cameras contributed to its bottom place, a spot the city has occupied for the last three years.
A total of 65 of the UK’s largest towns and cities were assessed, with the car parks and car crime examined.
Grant Bather, of Virgin Money, said: “Many local authorities do their best to ensure drivers aren’t treated like second-class citizens. Cars shouldn’t rule the road but motorists’ views need to be taken into consideration.”
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Second place. Despite the disaster zone that used to be the super-efficient EP.
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Your right Jake plus everyday another speed hump, island, set of traffic lights or a speed camera appears.
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Your right Jake plus everyday another speed hump, island, set of traffic light or speed camera appears.
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Not surprised, noone knows which lane to get into on roundabouts and they are a large part of Telford’s road systems. So no not friendly at all.
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Yep, the road planners of Telford are doing there best to ruin the place.
I mean look at what they have done to the junction of checkley lane and redhill way in Priorslee/St.Georges. If you want to turn right out of St.Georges to go to Priorslee you are now made to turn left down the hill to go round the island and back up the hill(this is an extra 1/2 a mile.
Talk about adding to our carbon footprint!
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Yawn!!! Try driving around any other town in Britian. You lot don’t know your born!!!
The EP’s had that work done to it to stop you lot from killing yourselves.
I suppose it’s true what they say. Shropshire born, Shropshire bred, strong in the arm, weak in the car!
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“The EP’s had that work done to it to stop you lot from killing yourselves.”
Gringo, so THAT’S why the casualty rates on the EP have gone up!
WELL DONE, mate!
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Roadrunner, check your facts sunshine.
Casualty rates on the EP have dropped considerably since the dedicated lanes and crash-safe sign poles were installed 4 years back.
Despite the fact that most of the new signs are now missing after being hit by numpty drives.
perhaps if you kept your eyes on the road instead of texting and fiddling with your stereo while you drove up the EP at 80mph, you’d notice.
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Very interesting, Gringo, because when the first years figures were released for casualties after the changes, they had gon UP, perhaps you have some more up to date ones to enlighten us with.
“Despite the fact that most of the new signs are now missing after being hit by numpty drives.
perhaps if you kept your eyes on the road instead of texting and fiddling with your stereo while you drove up the EP at 80mph, you’d notice.”
Notice what Gringo?….maybe that the road is now more dangerous, it certainly sounds like it, if the posts are always getting knocked down…what do you put that down to then…a safer road?…Not where I come from.
Do you work for the council by any chance?…only they would say that it has improved.
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Check *your* facts sunshine – the number accidents has gone down but the number of casualties has gone up. That means less accidents but they’re more serious. The EP is more dangerous now than it was before it got messed with and the council’s answer is to put up more signs! I’ve got a picture I took of a car crashed into the “Think!” sign with the number of casualties on it between Randlay and Stirchley Interchanges, that’s one ironic picture.
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“perhaps if you kept your eyes on the road instead of texting and fiddling with your stereo while you drove up the EP at 80mph, you’d notice.”
You seem to assume to know facts about me without any evidence, is this how you base your “facts” about the roads around Telford, too?
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Gringo,
Accident figures for EP
2006 – Accidents 17 Casualties 21
2007 – Accidents 16 Casualties 29
So in 2007, AFTER the changes Casualties went UP!
Is that what you mean by SAFER?
Perhaps you work for highways and have some more up to date figures to base your ASSUMPTIONS on?
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Have any of you statistic anoraks visited the possibility that there may have been an increase in car sharing in 2007..
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Oh of course, Spencer…one less accident, more people in the cars….still not much safer for the crazy amount spent on it though!
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But …then again….less cars on the road, due to car sharing but almost as many accidents…makes it even less safe…you can’t win can you?
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“Despite the fact that most of the new signs are now missing after being hit by numpty drives.”
Even if you prefer to ignore the increase in casualty figures, if what you say is true, about….
“MOST of the new signs are now missing after being hit…”
It would appear to me that the road is not really that safe at all.
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Hahaha!
You’ve taken the bait like a prize salmon. congrats.
check the “casualty figures” against deaths.
The pass safe signing was designed to colapse on impact, preventing serious injury.
What price do you put on a life roadrunner? the cost of a packet of fags and a tin of superstrength? or a shiny chrome exhaust?
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Aye-up, i think that Gringo must be a council employee. Try driving my traction engine round Telford, it’s a bl**dy nightmare.
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Gringo, a road with “most of it’s signs are now missing after being hit” , isn’t that safe …is it? or is that how you define safe?
I don’t buy fags, drink super strength or have a shiny exhaust, what do they have in common with road safety?….strange logic in highways planning these days…lets design safe roads on a fag packet afetr a can of super strength to upset the shiny exhaust brigade?
Have you thought of window cleaning?
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Gringo, I take it you are “from out of the area”, have you tried driving the length and breadth of telford during peak times or do you just commute in and out?
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Now I think about it, I haven’t seen the “Kruze Telford” yam-yams about for some time! Nice one, road planners!
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