Just in case you thought yesterday’s aberration was a glitch, there is evidence of this moronic, pointless repainting of white lines all over the place. This example is at a junction I have ridden through on countless occasions at all times of the day. I have never yet seen a pedestrian crossing the road here. Why would they? It’s in the middle of somewhere where there is no reason for pedestrians to be doing such a thing. Madness. Just imagine what else that cash could have been spent on.
To be fair, I can think of similar madness back in the Old Country.
Now, I am not in the least anti-Welsh, nor the Welsh language, but this practice just seems utterly bonkers to me. Imagine the extra environmental cost of all that additional paint and the energy used in the application thereof. Is anyone seriously suggesting that there are drivers that would not recognise the word (in either Welsh or English) after having first encountered said text in the middle of the road on arriving in the Principality? Yes, I understand that the use of both Welsh and English on place names has a value in the efforts to preserve the language, but this particular road marking is used so frequently, it is patently ludicrous. How many Welsh speaking drivers wouldn’t recognise the word SLOW? If there are that many, how do they cope when crossing the border? Indeed, I know roads in the UK on which you may drive from West to East from England into Wales and then back into England. In one case, it’s a stretch on the A495, which is approximately 5.5 miles long, and, yes, it has both languages.
Pobol y Cwm! Best call an Ambiwlans. Tidy.
2020 - A Year of Perfect Vision 