Why’s nothing done over dangerous crossroads?

AFTER another near miss at the infamous Sovereign crossroads, Shepley, one wonders when the powers that be will install traffic lights.

The filling station supermarkets, with its high volume of traffic and the two entrance/exits so close to the junction, is a major contributor to incidents.

Traffic approaching Denby Dale often stops at the junction only to find vehicles park at the very corner of the forecourt and obstruct their view of the road from Shepley, thus making an exit out on to the junction very dangerous.

They can’t abandon their car and walk across into the supermarket to find the owner of the obstructing car as there’s always a queue of cars behind them.

The garage owners have painted a hatched “no parking” area, but people simply ignore it when the few parking areas are busy and it’s easy to park on signs painted on the floor.

A small railing would be the thing to fit in order to make this crossroads safer by preventing parking on the corner of the forecourt.

Why is it that no-one from highways sees the risk of doing nothing about this accident waiting to happen? shown real dignity’,’ 26th July 2018).

So “in his opinion” he thinks that Boris Johnson has “displayed real dignity” in his recent utterances. This is the then Foreign Secretary who, in response to the warnings coming thick and fast from businesses across the country about the real outcome of leaving the EU without a trade deal, rudely responded “f*** business”. Perhaps this sort of language is in his own everyday vocabulary and he therefore views it as a dignified response.

He makes great play of how we need to comply with the “will of the 52% majority in the Referendum” as though this was an overwhelming victory for the leave campaign. It is worth exploring the actual statistics. The turnout was 72.21% of the electorate of which 51.89% voted to leave and 48.11% voted to remain – that, in itself, does not seem to be an overwhelming majority. If you examine the statistics further some 27.79% of the electorate did not turn out to vote. A recent survey of this latter cohort discovered that some 32.2% said they ‘did not know how they would have voted’ had they gone to the polling station. It may well be that, given a campaign less full of rhetoric and questionable argument the democratic result may well have been different.

He then takes the opportunity to launch into a ‘project fear’ style attack on the possibility of a Jeremy Corbyn led Labour Government.

I am no particular fan of Jeremy Corbyn but it may well be that, if there is another general election, it may be the democratic will of the people that a Labour Government be elected. In which case, using his own argument, he will need to abide by the decision.