Staff directing traffic - shopping centres

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Odyssey 2005 wrote: »

Why did you have to brake hard in a shopping centre carpark if you were paying attention ?

I was waved out (exiting) carpark by as traffic hi vis person, he didn't see a car coming from behind him but I did hence me braking hard. What part of that is difficult to comprehend? And say I did crash into that car or give versa, could I then blame the hi vis person? (as they waved me out)

ohnonotgmail

GM228 wrote: »

They don't, they used to but the appropriate legislation was revoked 22 years ago.

I realise the rules of the road are not legislation but they do say

Animal traffic

Always slow down and be prepared to stop when approaching or overtaking animals. If a person in charge of animals gives a signal to slow down or stop, you must obey it. Avoid using your horn if animals are in front of you, as it might frighten them.

GM228

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

I realise the rules of the road are not legislation but they do say

Nail on head in bold.

If used to be the case years ago, RSA copy and paste no doubt.

A driver must where appropriate stop when meeting or overtaking animals, but, the law affords no lawful authority for the person controlling the animals to stop traffic.

beauf

Heckler wrote: »

Legal or not they are there to help at a very busy time of the year for shops.

Just don't blindly follow their instruction. Be as mindful as you would usually be.

Good sensible advice. Proceed with caution..

beauf

The Garda used to do the direction in Blanch. Which obviously isn't ideal use of their resources. So it's not impossible they arranged a civilian replacement..

Regardless who does it, It doesn't help that much. I'm not convinced it doesn't make it worse. But perhaps the road layout is so bad, there's no fixing it.

fishy_fishy

beauf wrote: »

The Garda used to do the direction in Blanch. Which obviously isn't ideal use of their resources. So it's not impossible they arranged a civilian replacement..

Regardless who does it, It doesn't help that much. I'm not convinced it doesn't make it worse. But perhaps the road layout is so bad, there's no fixing it.

I'm absolutely convinced that all this traffic direction makes matters a lot worse. It's like traffic lights on roundabouts - take it away and things start flowing again.

CIARAN_BOYLE

I presume fire brigade staff would as a matter of fact be approved to direct traffic.

Recently saw an incident where traffic was insane and a number of fire brigade tenders were unable to move (despite full sirens).

A number of fire brigade persons got out of the water tender to direct traffic.