We are told to avoid risk, that an army of hi-viz wearing health and safety 'experts' should tell us what to do at every turn. But when it comes to those authorities having a responsibility themselves, health and safety goes out the window.
During the recent freezing weather (by recent I mean, the last few years) our roads deteriorated. Some of it is unavoidable but most is because the roads aren't fit for purpose in the first place. Anyway, the upshot is a load of potholes, which are a right pain in the suspension. Round here they are currently at plague levels (although the Lib Dems are crowing about getting one stretch of the estate completely resurfaced).
But for the two wheeled fraternity, these holes are a potential killer. However, undoubted health and safety risk or not they stay, unresolved. So, the feeling that the bikers will stay off the roads during the bad weather is negated by the fact the holes stay for years.
And don't get me started on the damage done by the waste collection vehicles, churning up the roads and crushing the pavements as they try to negotiate narrow roads, with endless cul-de-sacs (why build cul-de-sacs?), squeezing between the cars parked outside the houses.
The only time it seems occur to planners and councillors that people might own cars and park them outside their houses, is when they try to implement a scheme to charge people for the privilege. The adage that the government should fear the people, not the people their government', begins when the state starts to become a burden.
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