Letter - Get to grips with traffic
Here is a list of Kirkgate traffic offences:
Cars & taxis driving up Kirkgate, suddenly stopping and double parking outside Polish Off Licence, causing buses to swerve around them.
Cars & taxis driving up Kirkgate through alleged bus gate (bus & cycles only).
Cars & taxis stopping in the bus stop to pick up, drop off or use the cash machines - bus passengers have to alight in the middle of the road.
Cars & taxis driving up The Springs, again part of the alleged bus gate.
Cars & taxis turning right out of Sun Lane and Warrengate, both junctions left-turn only then committing the above offences.
Cars & taxis turning right from Kirkgate onto Warrengate in front of buses coming down The Springs, road markings give no provision to do this manoeuvre because cars and taxis should not be there.
Cars & taxis driving down The Springs onto Kirkgate, again bus and cycles only, then parking outside Wetherspoons to pick up or drop off causing buses to mount the pedestrian island to get around them.
There is adequate signage and road markings in this area so when are West Yorkshire Police and WMDC going to get to grips with all the above road traffic offences?
Peter Davies
Kirkgate
Wakefield
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Phil Wakefield
Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 08:56 AMBuy a cheap camera from Maplins and put it in your car, I have one and download to youtube.
ManicManiac
Monday, February 6, 2012 at 01:02 PMI would agree completely with Philadelphia about the behaviour of private-hire taxi drivers. I've never really known who to contact to make complaints, but I've had all sorts of encounters in the past. On one occasion I had a taxi driver almost up to my back bumper whilst doing 30mph in a 30 zone. He kept dropping back and putting his lights on full beam, sounding his horn, and then creeping up again. Eventually he overtook me going the wrong side of a traffic island and promptly stuck 2 fingers up as he shot off into the distance - probably doing at least 50. If this is following the Highway Code I'd love to read a copy of the one they follow.
PHILADELPHIA
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 11:00 AMPrivate hiretaxi drivers are a law unto themselves, cvomplain to the Licensing Department in charge of such vehicles and they do nothing as your word goes agains the driver, I reported one for speeding on Horbury Road and using his phone whilst I was a oassenger, and told him that his driving was dangerous and that I would not be paying the full fare. Be warned... if you say this they have an emergency code name that they will use over their radios which in turn will notify all the private hiretaxis of the firm he works for and they will in turn come out mob-handed and threaten you. If that happens to you, call thepolice and say that you have been threatened with attack and say where you are, and hope that thep police will turn up - that's providing they are not on a coffee break!
MickEden
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 09:47 AMNot to mention the appalling and inconsiderate lane discipline that the majority of Arriva buses seem to use on the Crown House roundabout - it appears that they stay in the outside lane regardless of which exit they will be taking and expect other road users to use the force to guess their intention, also I have lost count of the number of times I've been cut up by buses pulling onto the roundabout from Kirkgate with no thought to 'Give Way To The Right'
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