Archived Topic
Topic ID 1224
30/12/2005 by Drama Queen
Cats Eyes and White Lines...
Before you all fall asleep. I have had to use a lot of familiar and unfamiliar roads in East Herts in the past week. Question 1) Where are all the cats Eyes?? If they're in the road, they don't reflect, and the important white lines on the edges of roads, especially useful in fog and poor visibility ie: starting to snow.. non-existent! Its been really bad and roads I have driven on for 20 years are now seeming to be much more dangerous. I would welcome EHDC thoughts on this.. There is no excuse at all. Cambridgeshire's roads are first class, lots of lanes and remote locations and they get it right, I was not happy driving to Stansted Airport and some parts of the journey are very isolated. I'll got to B&Q myself if you want paint!!
0 replies
Archived Replies
Reply ID 14328
30/12/2005 by thefair1973
it's like when you come to any roundabout outside Hertford - you know which exit to take to get to Hertford because the signs are missing or unreadable. Come on Herts Highways, sort it out!
Reply ID 14344
02/01/2006 by farrowandfarrow
quote:
Originally posted by Drama Queen
Before you all fall asleep. I have had to use a lot of familiar and unfamiliar roads in East Herts in the past week. Question 1) Where are all the cats Eyes?? If they're in the road, they don't reflect, and the important white lines on the edges of roads, especially useful in fog and poor visibility ie: starting to snow.. non-existent! Its been really bad and roads I have driven on for 20 years are now seeming to be much more dangerous. I would welcome EHDC thoughts on this.. There is no excuse at all. Cambridgeshire's roads are first class, lots of lanes and remote locations and they get it right, I was not happy driving to Stansted Airport and some parts of the journey are very isolated. I'll got to B&Q myself if you want paint!!
Agreed. I come off the A10 at Hertford and leave it sometimes at 20 miles an hour as the edge-of-road boudary lines are the same colour as the tarmac & oncoming headlights exacerbate things. I sometimes have to go at 20MPH to make sure I stay in the corrent lane. No doubt this sends other people mad, but at least I don't end up in the ditch/embedded in their wings.
Reply ID 14345
03/01/2006 by Steve
It's interesting that Hertfordshire Highways can find the funds for expensive traffic light systems at the Bluecoats roundabout and [soon-to-be] Rush Green roundabout but seem unable to fund basic low-cost items such as cats eyes and white lines.
Reply ID 14346
03/01/2006 by hertfordian
Happy new year everyone.
Has anyone reported any of the above issues to the online Highways Fault reporting system on hertsdirect.org? One of the options on there is for "ROAD MARKINGS MISSING OR FADED" and another one is "STUDS/CATSEYES MISSING/DAMAGED". You can get to this at: http://www.hertsdirect.org/highwayfaults
Be interesting to see what happens after any of these issues are reported...
Hertfordian,
Hertford
E-mail me [url="[email protected]"]here[/url]
Reply ID 14357
03/01/2006 by thefair1973
quote:
Originally posted by hertfordian
Be interesting to see what happens after any of these issues are reported...
I've just reported the stretch of the A414 between Hatfield and Gascoyne Way. I drove this for the first time at night last night and I think I came accross 1 cats eye. I bet there were more live cats eyes than artificial ones!!
Reply ID 14378
03/01/2006 by jez_p
The stretch from Mill Green to the Gypsy Site appears to have had its cats Eyes replaced as they all looked very bright this afternoon - They appear to stop by the Tip and are non existent for the rest of the way
Reply ID 14493
05/01/2006 by thefair1973
I just had a call from a guy at Herts Highways to say they are fully aware of the problem between the Gypsy site & Hertingfordbury roundabouts and it is on their agenda to be upgraded shortly
Reply ID 14530
05/01/2006 by jez_p
quote:
Originally posted by jez_p
The stretch from Mill Green to the Gypsy Site appears to have had its cats Eyes replaced as they all looked very bright this afternoon - They appear to stop by the Tip and are non existent for the rest of the way
Although they ddn't show up as clearly in the dark when the gritter had been out.
Reply ID 14617
08/01/2006 by Drama Queen
Its not just Mill Green/Gypsy road sites... its all over Herts! Try driving on B1000 to Welwyn Garden City or Digswell!!!! I like to think that I know the roads... but when its dark, wet, poor visibility... there is absolutely no excuse. It seems we can put this useless red or green non-slippy tarmac down that lasts 8 months but the white lines and cats eyes are left. And after re-surfacing of roads like A10, some of the slip roads are left without any indication that they are there! They can paint the warning strips of white paint by the A10 flyover, which still puts brakes on cars who don't realise there are no speed cameras there now, but most East herts roads are death traps. I await the civil law suit against the council for failing to maintain our public highways... I am glad I am not alone in finding the roads a real danger...
9 replies