Moving flashing lights and reflective clothing

[presta]

I agree

I have seen to of those things where they try to stop cars using a residential road as a cut through by putting big planers across it
Hence bikes and walkers - and mobilirt scooters - can get through but not cars etc

and the "local community groups" go beserk because the cyclist are being given a nice quiet route through the town at the expense fo the cars

no mention of mobility scooters or pushchairs
but bikes are allowed and not cars!!!

There's a set of three roads near here that were used as a rat run so they closed them with bollards, but that was about 30 odd years ago when you could do it without anyone moaning. I don't know of any complaints when they started building all the new estates as cul-de-sacs, either. If living in cul-de-sacs is so undesirable it makes you wonder why people pay more for it.

The streets where I live are through roads, but there's nowt much to be gained from rat running anyway. When they expanded the estate ~1970, they built cul-de-sacs off a main arterial road which loops off and back onto the main road, and that's a bit of a race track. When they expanded again ~2000, it was all done on a dendritic pattern, with no through routes at all.