Slow – trees ahead!
I sometimes wonder if the Department for Transport actually do any work, or if they just sit around having corporate-style “blue sky” meetings, with a prize for who can come up with the goofiest idea of the week. How else do you explain their current plan to plant trees by the side of the road in an attempt to slow us down, when the roads are covered in potholes and our public transport network is collapsing around ears. Yeah, with all that going on, let’s go out and plant some trees. I wonder if in the change of government, the Department for Transport has been taken over by a bunch of hippies and no-one has noticed? If their next move is to ban petrol and gas oil, then that’s probably the case….
The thinking is that a line of trees at the side of the road slows us down, as they block our peripheral vision, making us naturally more cautious. Hmm. I’ve driven in France before where lines of cypress trees are a common sight on country roads, and I’m pretty sure that they have never slowed me down! This seems to me one of those “policies” that is a cheap way of pretending to do something about an emotive issue like speeding, without needing to spend any extra cash and without needing to reverse the cuts they’ve already planned for the UK police force. I’m sure it would be very pretty to have councils across the country planting lots of trees and it all sounds very green and earth-friendly, but I can’t see it having any impact on my or anyone else’s driving.
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