Our local council is now the proud owner of a smartcar come mobile CCTV. Every day it can be seen roaming the roads booking anyone that so much a stops at a traffic light. It is the talk of the town and really getting people going.
This latest bit of kit is most readily seen at rush hour of course.
Now three mornings a week I join this rush hour traffic but on foot rather than in my car. My general observation is that it is not actaully the cars causing the problems but the dogs on the school run.
I don't mean the state of the mums at the gates (that is another disscussion) but the number of people that seem to use the school run as a chance to walk the dog. This is causing gridlock on our pavements. I have nothing against the domestic dog but please keep them out of my way.
Every morning I have to play the tiresome game of dodge the dog. They are everywhere. I have to swerve the buggy complete with the 3 year old on the buggy board (which i use only to keep my daughter from stepping in the doggy doos on the way to playschool) like a drunk drive on a country road. It puts 5 minutes on my journey time and there is not a grimmer domestic job than picking doggy doos out of trainer and pushchair grips with a 3HB pencil, not to meantine cleaning the hallway carpet because some has hidden too well.
This is now on top of the scooter problem of which no child in our area seems to have the ability to put one foot in front of the other but instead can rest one on a plank of steal and push with the other. It is manic we get poked by handle bars, toes gone over by the wheels and once again it is the non dog/scooter owner that has to dodge out the way because the scooter take 5 minutes to turn from a straight course.
So lets leave the cars that cause no problem alone and instead get the smart CCTV to sort out the dogs and scooters that are holding us all up.