St Peter's Road in Sheringham is now a one-way street but many motorists are getting caught out.
PHOTO: ANTONY KELLY
Friday the 13th horror for Sheringham drivers
Steve Downes
Thursday, February 9, 2012
5:23 PM
A one-way system that started on “Friday the 13th” is turning into a horror story for confused Sheringham motorists, it was been claimed.
After many years as a two-way street, from January 13 cars could only drive north along St Peter’s Road.
And as many as “20 cars every half an hour” have been caught out, according to a trader who owns a shop on the road.
At Sheringham Town Council on Tuesday February 7, Peter Cox from Peter’s Bookshop said: “It became one-way on Friday 13th of January, which is quite apt. It’s mainly local drivers who use it, and they have got into the habit of going both ways along it.
“It’s difficult to get out of the habit, particularly when at the bottom of the road there’s no indication that it is one-way as you approach and turn into it. The signs are 20 metres into the road.”
He added: “On the Saturday before last, a police officer stopped 20 cars in half an hour which were going the wrong way up the road. It’s going to carry on until the correct signs are put up.”
PC Ian Smith admitted he had been caught out once while driving his patrol car. He told members: “We will be giving attention to St Peter’s Road, and understand further signs will be in place soon.
“We will continue to offer words of advice as we believe habits are hard to break.”
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6 comments
Good Old Tesco's
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John Rayner
Friday, February 10, 2012
Why was this ever made one way?? There's absolutely no need for it. It's just a waste of council money that would have been better off fixing the potholed roads.
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Lord Elf
Friday, February 10, 2012
I’m Speechless. Shame as I used to hit a right when vans or lorries were coming down Church Street because of the cars parked on the side of the road. I won't turn into St Peters road now as I know you can't do it but without the EDP reporting this I'm sure with no signs to tell me not to I would have done much to my embarrassment. What happened here needs to be addressed and someone to be held accountable? Not asking for his or her head. I just think let the town know who the person is please so next time they do their job properly and which may save them embarrassment. What am I saying they probably don’t live in Sheringham anyway?
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Casting Agent
Friday, February 10, 2012
Thank god the police had the resources to stop 20 cars in half an hour,imagine the carnage if they hadn't been there
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ncfc
Thursday, February 9, 2012
God only knows how these half-wits would cope in an urban environment. But as long as the Police cannot get it right, everybody else should be safe. And, after all, they`ve only had the best part of a month to "git used tert".
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Mad Brewer
Thursday, February 9, 2012
No doubt tesco's had something to do with this one way system !!!!!
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Colby Army!
Thursday, February 9, 2012