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Pavements, kerbs, signs, road markings, diverse street furniture, pedestrians and moving traffic were represented.
A concrete kerb slab marked the lowest front door as well as the foot of an exterior stair.
He hated patrol, distracting youths from their usual pursuits, and chasing off kerb-crawlers.
At best, it will be replaced by the new kerb, but its essential quality, its position, will have been lost.
Metal barriers, inappropriate vertical signs and kerbs are among the causes behind an enormous number of victims.
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I also noticed that there were dropped kerbs on every street, and on every corner.
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Then there will be more guard rails by kerbs to stop people being pushed into the road by the crowd at the back.
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Traffic islands must be rigid with vertical kerbs in order to give protection to pedestrians.
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Manual labour is essential in order to get between wheels and kerbs and so on.
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There was no need to put great white concrete kerbs along the roadside.
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We recommend that where possible ramped kerbs should be provided at crossing places much used by prams, wheelchairs and the disabled.
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However, the price in terms of the damage done to kerbs and pavements is considerable.
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Divisional road engineers, therefore, are going along the roads seeing whether, very cheaply, they can put kerbing on the existing roads.
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There are no statutory requirements requiring kerbs to be at a specific height.
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Indeed, the reason that they live where they do is that there are no kerbs anywhere near them.
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Does that mean that local authorities will be given the power to prevent the blocking of dropped kerbs, which are used by wheelchairs?
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One of the points he raised was that there should not be kerbs on the sides of roads, so that accidents could be avoided.
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I should love to discuss this matter with them, and the kerbs are as high as ever.
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Why do we have vertical kerbs at the sides of these roads?
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There has been a good deal of general criticism and some misunderstanding of the purpose of kerbs.
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The footpaths, kerbs and verges are destroyed, and property close to the highway is damaged by vibration from the engines and the traffic movement.
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Dropping kerbs for wheelchairs and appropriate road crossings are always forthcoming if asked for, and we welcome that.
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Another discrimination is that in many places a disabled person still cannot go to the toilet and still cannot get up and down kerbs.
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The policy at the moment is that kerbs are only put on the sides of roads to protect the footpath.
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Another great difficulty for people in wheelchairs is presented by kerbs.
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They were amazed and appalled at the kerbs and difficulties of getting around.
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Fourthly, bus stops should provide electronic real time information, and have their kerbs arranged for modern buses.
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Where possible, when kerbs have been put in, they have been put in to these wider limits.
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Parking on the pavements is greatly to the detriment of local authorities in keeping their pavements and kerbs in good condition.
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Highway authorities could well provide more dropped kerbs and more tactile and audible signs at crossing places.
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I cannot understand why we have not taken action long ago to remove kerbs at pedestrian crossings.
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In the country you will find the great arterial roads bounded by wire fences held up by concrete kerbs going mile after mile across country.
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The length of cement roads and kerbs which seems to be required for a modern school amazes me.
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The provision of kerbs in country lanes is a matter to be decided by the local highway authorities concerned.
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The kerbs can be removable in case of breakdown when it is necessary to have controlled passing.
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We have done enough research to know that development of adult vehicles capable of lifting over kerbs would not be feasible.
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Because after that the builder or the estate owner can stall deduct the expenditure which he has made in respect to the roads and kerbs.
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Have local authorities painted white lines and kerbs to a sufficient extent, and have they taken advantage of the provision of white studs?
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Therefore, we feel it best to consider using dropped kerbs when they are in combination with some form of textured pavement surface.
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Although we welcome the use of dropped kerbs, they are sometimes distracting for the blind if they are used unexpectedly.
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I support the necessity to ring-fence the cash because otherwise local authorities will spend it on lamp posts or kerbs—expenditure which attracts more votes.
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We of course accept that ramps should be provided wherever possible at pedestrian crossings to avoid the difficulty of manoeuvring wheelchairs over kerbs.
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The provision of dropped kerbs is a matter for highways authorities, who would normally be involved in discussions about new developments.
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After additional works were added including kerbs and re-routing of the downpipe, the final cost will be approximately £43,000.
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Kerbs to mark the outer edge of the hard shoulders would interfere with drainage, but other means of defining this edge are being considered.
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Is it not also the case that such kerbs yield a comfortable profit to those who supply them?
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Is it not a fact that these kerbs actually cause cars to be turned over?
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Most of the other houses in his row have lowered kerbs and vehicle hard standing.
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Unless buses can pull alongside kerbs, the benefits of low-floor buses are entirely negated.
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Dropped kerbs, for example, are essential to help all wheelchair and scooter users cross from one pavement to another.
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The upgrading will include not only the installation of traffic lights but kerbing, channelling and other necessary improvements.
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I should like to see the roads and kerbs painted so that every person knows what would happen in every square inch of the road.
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As footpaths are being provided on both sides of this road for the whole of its length, vertical kerbs are a necessary safeguard.
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Presumably they approved the specification for the ramping of kerbs.
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Another recommendation was that where kerbing is necessary to prevent the roads spreading, kerbs should be flush with the carriageway or splayed at an angle of forty-five degrees.
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I am not satisfied that these kerbs would constitute an improvement on the approved types of safety fences on motorways nor that their suitability has been established for use elsewhere.
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The kerbs are then put on the existing road in the knowledge that, parallel with that road, a second one-way traffic road will be built in time.
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They take over the pavements, kerbs etc.
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I am not prepared to set aside the advice contained in the memorandum, which gives special emphasis to the design of kerbs in relation to safety.
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At the same time, there are instances where it is essential to put in kerbs, and where the widening will not take place for a considerable time.
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The station has a ticket office, a small cafeteria, access for wheelchairs into the ticket area and level access without kerbs from the car park into the station.
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Next year the county council is proposing to replace the kerbs along the length of road passing the school and to widen the footway where it can.
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On country roads there are no kerbs, and the construction of the roads in many cases is not such as to render this desirable or even safe.
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There should also be dropped kerbs and textured pavements so that people with sight difficulties know when they are getting near the edge of the pavement.
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In so many ways, access is a great deal easier, pavement kerbs have been dropped, and one can go so much more readily into hotels and restaurants.
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Hard strips are being provided on both sides of each carriageway so that the kerbs can be moved outwards, thereby enabling vehicles to use the full width of the carriageway.
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Is it not an additional irritation to observe these kerbs going down, at considerable expense, on roads which we know are to be widened before long?
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Footpaths might be put behind hedges instead of next to the road, which would obviate the necessity for kerbs and would help to reduce the danger of accidents.
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I have no information about the number of local authorities which have installed ramped kerbs at crossing places as this is entirely a matter for them to decide.
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Expensive kerbing in those places is a great waste of public money when it will never be used for the purpose for which it is intended.
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There is a danger that some hard kerbs tip over a car where, if there was a softer kind of surface, an accident might be avoided.
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She should get into a wheelchair and negotiate her way up and down the kerbs on such a road and then see how she would determine severity.
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Where barriers or kerbs cannot be provided and there is a clear cycle safety problem to be overcome, then white line separation or unsegregated sharing may need to be considered.
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Kerbs are of three kinds.
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Stand on the pavement near the kerb.
Let us try to apply this to the typical kerb-crawler.
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The use of this new type of dropped kerb seems to provide an added safeguard for those who are chairbound.
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In the final months of 1983, the police introduced a new line of action aimed at deterring prospective clients and, in particular, kerb-crawlers.
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We are trying to deal with a modern problem—the kerb-crawler — with laws that go back hundreds of years.
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A kerb is often used by a blind person with a stick to identify his location.
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As they arrive, so do their customers—the motorists and kerb crawlers.
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If this clause were to be amended as proposed, the kerb-crawler would be immune from prosecution if persistence could not be shown.
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Hence, we have there the kerb crawler brought in.
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I do not underrate its importance but kerb crawling is not at the top of the bill so far as criminal offences are concerned.
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To deal with a nuisance on this scale, we have to agree with the commission that kerb crawling is a nuisance.
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What is kerb crawling but the harassment of innocent, decent ladies in the street by men who come alongside them in a car, importuning them?
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The ordinary women will be protected by the law from approaches made by kerb crawlers.
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Very often, they have to jump the kerb and there is no proper replacement of the kerb.
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One-way streets and road closures have made it difficult for prospective kerb crawlers to operate.
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We have put gates across the roads to stop kerb crawling.
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Otherwise, unless there is a pavement, it is far better that there should not be an upright kerb.
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There is the extreme annoyance of kerb crawling.
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Moreover, the driver who wishes to find short-term parking space alongside the kerb is now able to do so much more easily than before.
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I think that they can be trusted to enforce the law on kerb crawling.
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I believe that the number of people involved in kerb crawling will fall dramatically as a consequence.
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There are intermediate cases, however, where a splayed kerb is justified.
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In rural areas, in particular, it is rare that anything more is required than a flush kerb, and that is what we normally recommend.
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