Roading/Streets
Reported Friday, 9 February 2018 at 4:34 pm, Cranford Street, Saint Albans, 8014, Canterbury.
The reporter’s words
I have had s near-death experience just now and I’m very shaken up. I parked outside the shops on corner of Cranford Street and Westminster Street to visit the cafe. Unbelievably, due to the ridiculous raising of the footpath, I am unable (being disabled and walking with two sticks) to exit my car and step straight onto the footpath. This meant I had to walk on the outside of the parked cars, on the road!! I had to walk the full length on the road until I came to a section by the bus stop which is of a height I can step across. This is a very busy road and several large trucks wihizzed past me making me feel very unsafe. I was right to feel shaky, because one particular very large truck came scarily close to me as he roared past. This is s shocking situation. I’m not sure what the designer/engineer of this “footpath” was thinking but why on earth are there no cut thoughs with a handrail so people like me can be safe. Obviously these people have no idea what it means to be disabled. I will never use these shops again until, hopefully, someone views this debacle and realises it is a death trap. And the council will be wholly responsible if the unthinkable happens. With all the Health and Safety rules in place these days, I’m astonished this has been allowed to be constructed this way.
The filing
- Filed
- Friday, 9 February 2018 at 4:34 pm
- Report number
- #368,430
- Filed under
- roads
- Coordinates
- the pin on the map →
The council’s work orders, near this pin
- Road Layout0 m away · resolved 20 Nov 2018, took 5 days
- Traffic Light2 m away · open, filed 5 Feb 2020
- Signs (Road)2 m away · resolved 25 Jun 2020, took 11 hours
- Traffic Light2 m away · resolved 20 Apr 2020, took 24 hours
- Traffic Light2 m away · resolved 25 Mar 2019, took 3 days
- Traffic Light2 m away · resolved 11 Jul 2022, took 3 days
- Litter (Road)2 m away · resolved 12 Jan 2022, took 3 hours
- Traffic Light2 m away · resolved 16 Apr 2019, took 3 days
MyCouncilTicket is the council’s own work-order stream, a different door from the public report above, and the same job can stand in both. The whole ticket roll →
Where this sits
The pin148 Cranford Streetlands 4 m from this filed address, its whole recordThe streetCranford Streetthe street the pin lands nearest, its record, every report on itThe suburbSaint Albansthe suburb, in depthThe problemRoading/Streetsevery filing of its kind on the city’s booksThe date9 Februarythis date in the archive, across the yearsThe year2018the year’s shelf and ledgerThe mapOn the mapthe pin, among its neighboursBeforeWhat stood herewhat the archive knows of this ground
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