Noone walks on the ‘reclaimed’ road in Hastings seafront

From: Peter Saunders, Croft Road, Hastings
East Parade, Hastings. SUS-200309-153054001East Parade, Hastings. SUS-200309-153054001
East Parade, Hastings. SUS-200309-153054001

East Sussex County Council has narrowed the main seafront road in Hastings by putting barriers along the road, so people on the (widened) pavement can socially distance more easily when passing each other.

Since they did this, I have seen nobody walking in the reclaimed road.

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The summer is over, there are fewer pedestrians around now, so this is unlikely to change. Yet the barriers are to stay in place until December. It seems that having taken a decision like this, there is no mechanism for reviewing it, even if it is clearly failing to achieve the intended results.

It is also worth remembering that the chances of transmitting the virus between people walking past each other in the open air are infinitesimal.

All that this ostentatious display of official do-gooding has achieved (apart from wasting even more of our money) is that the traffic now gets more delayed and snarled up than usual.

Officialdom 1, Common Sense 0.

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