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I can see people parking their entire car the pavement to get as close to their fence/wall as possible. No chance of tripping if you can't get past.
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Honestly don't know Bibs. Of course its the parent's fault for letting them be little ****s in that case but like you say, we cannot blame the parents these days. Allowing your child to play around high voltage electrical equipment is neglect in my book, but hey ho... I would say the liability would be the same as if the kid tripped over a petrol hose at a filling station.
The gutter thing is being trialled by a number of councils as a solution to the trailing cable issue, so I'm assuming they have done a risk assessment on it. It would be available in the same way as a dropped kerb is now. |
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John, your council is trialling on street charging, any idea what they are doing about trailing cables? (on second look it seems some of these are in car parks) https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/...to-shropshire/ |
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i think those gutters need to be closed in. if any council approves those they need their head examined. who is going too foot the bill for the instalment if they do pass stupidity?
petrol pump hoses are not left unattended or trail on the ground. joking aside this is a serious future problem that has not been thought through enough by morons pushing development and sales of EV's. sell the EV fuk the infrastructure seems to be the attitude right now. |
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I'm sure you are right Bibs. Apparently looking where you are going and being aware of your surroundings is not a requirement these days. Joking aside as you say, these are a hazard to the partially sighted or blind especially if they are popping up on pavements. I have seen some terrible street charging post installations in Warrington where they in the middle of the pathway!
I try to tuck the cable away out of harms way to avoid a trip hazard whenever I'm charging. The location of chargers is key here I think. My local Tesco chargers are nicely in a corner where no one will try to walk past the cars to get anywhere - but the Aldi ones are at the side of the path, where people walking to the store will pass. In your Ikea example, the ones at Leeds are in the middle of the car park and potentially there is a trip hazard but the one at Manchester is in a fenced off bay. Location is everything possibly? |
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If you want to see the trench cable duct thing, its from this times article
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/e...ents-wkllmhtdl |
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I don't see how this charging will work because people are going to need to charge overnight at home and it will only really work in situations where people have a private drive. |
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Are you even allowed to modify council property like that ? If the cable gets damaged the metalwork could become live.
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Follow the link in the article to Agile Streets (https://agilestreets.com/) and there is a map showing partner councils. Click on Shropshire to see where the chargers will be in your area.
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