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Originally Posted by Sparrow
Often it's better to not raise these types of issues at all; once the urban planners get going the 'solution' is generally worse than the problem imho.
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I discovered in a previous job that if you want to wind up urban and town planners, calling them surveyors works pretty well... Or at least it did for the couple I inadvertantly called surveyors...
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I used to walk along a busy road that pedestrians found dangerous to cross. The 'solution' wasn't a crossing in a sensible place; it was a mile of barricades shepherding pedestrians to the nearest junction where they could cross in installments when the various traffic lights went red; and then walk the mile back to where they wanted to cross to in the first place. 
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There's a similar situation near here - except all the council has done to discourage people crossing at the dangerous spot is put a sign up saying it's dangerous. Unfortunately, as it's near two bus stops, people are going to carry on crossing there and ignore the crossings further up and down the road.