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Thank you! - LippyChick (20th Feb 2005 - 22:40:23) For those who dislike whinging prepare to be appeased. I'm delighted to see at long last a zebra crossing in the village square. When I first arrived in Liphook (a paltry six years ago) after struggling with a push chair and two toddlers to cross the road I signed a petition in Lloyds chemist asking for formal pedestrian crossings in the square. The courtesy crossings that were there previously were farcical, with very few drivers bothering to pause to allow pedestrians to cross. It may make the traffic run just a little more thickly through the square, but at last the parents of Liphook can feel confident that their children can cross the square safely. You never know, more may even feel able to let their children walk to school on their own. It has taken a ridiculous length of time, but huge thanks to those who have been pushing tirelessly for this improvement.

Re: Thank you! - Liz (21st Feb 2005 - 11:24:46) I think the new crossing in the square is potentially extremely dangerous and I am very surprised the Highways Authority has allowed it. The crossing is adjacent to a roundabout and obscured for drivers travelling south by cars parked in the layby. I hope I'm wrong, but think parents should be wary of allowing schoolchildren to use this crossing on their own.

Re: Thank you! - Chris (21st Feb 2005 - 12:49:35) To be honest the whole traffic situation in the square is ridiculous and totally dangerous but at least cars will be forced to stop rather than pedestrians having to rely upon courtesy or good will.

Re: Thank you! - Eneida (21st Feb 2005 - 14:30:55) I totally agree with you Liz. From personal experience I know drivers often ignore people on zebra crossings, even when they're halfway across. If any sort of crossing was necessary there, it should have been a pelican.

Re: Thank you! - Alex Cameron (21st Feb 2005 - 14:57:35) I got to test drive the new crossing this morning, and alas, as always, there is a keen time lag between availability and reaction. I counted 6 cars that drove over it before the ones behind them realised they are required by law to stop...

Re: Thank you! - Steve Read (21st Feb 2005 - 19:11:12) I suppose to walk either by Lloyds Bank and use that crossing or round the corner to use the one by the HSBC was out the question. As for todays fiasco of now waiting for people to test drive the third crossing within 100 yards of each other I noticed and counted 7 individuals still using the other "crossing" outside the Nationwide. Still wont be long before the tree huggers have a traffic free square or they will be pushing for another painted crossing within 20 yards of the new one. Brilliant! If the cars don't get yer the fumes will.

Re: Thank you! - LippyChick (25th Feb 2005 - 15:32:33) Thanks for the suggestion Steve I should have thought to tell my daughter that she should cross the Square outside Carla's on the courtesy crossing in order to use the pelican outside Hampshires. Unfortunately when you have as many roads as we do converging on one spot then more than one crossing will be necessary. To be honest a crossing would probably have been better being sited outside Nationwide rather than Lloyds as most pedestrians recognise that visibility is better there...pretty important However a formal crossing is a vast improvement on what was there before, so I remain jubilant that it has eventually appeared. I'm sure that as more people get used to it being there the number of walkers using it and drivers stopping will increase.

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