Yeah. Driving on granite isn't a good idea in retrospect, huh?

"...but black cab drivers say they are less confident about driving on it."

Wow, they don't even try to hide the racism, do they? (Yes, sarcasm, it's what's for dinner)

"Maintenance teams have been seen cleaning off chewing gum and skid marks left on the granite bricks by cars stopping sharply."

How are the cars leaving chewing gum on the road? Sounds like they have A.I. cars over there. Skynet really IS closer over there...

Seriously though, what's the point of this thing? Is like a free-range road/sidewalk? Pedestrian and cars have no real boundaries, just kind of mingle wherever, and this has somehow been shown to "reduce accidents"? Only in the way it reduces traffic because nobody wants to drive through such a clusterfark.

Jesus Christ.

Do the math - at that rate the budget-cut roads will be filthy in 'x' months.

Tear it up, re-suface normally, give up the experiment. It has obviously failed.

I was just at the Victoria & Albert Museum, Natural History Museum and Science Museum in December and did not see this coming.

/I would have to admit that London is a very dangerous city to try to cross the street

/try Rome
// the Churchill War Rooms was where it's at

Does the shape of the road form the sigil *odegra* in the language of the Black Priesthood of Ancient Mu, and mean 'Hail the Great Beast, Devourer of Worlds'?

What's so appealing about this? Why would I want to walk on some posh-floored road where there are no traffic regulations and cars can easily mingle with run over pedestrians?

This is either suicidal behavior, or New Delhi wannabe-ism

What could possibly go JESUS CHRIST THERE'S A CAR ON TOP OF ME!

Fell In Love With a Chair: Okay uh... can someone please explain properly how the cars and the people peacefully mingle? This sounds like a clusterfark.

Coincidentally, I used the exact same word to describe it.

This is the sort of street that encourages knife and sharp pencil crime. Possibly even taking the Queen's name in vain.

by leaving the gum on the road, you prevent skid marks by cars braking abruptly... the gum will catch the tires and stretch the car to a gentle stop.


it doesn't take a Roads Scholar to figure this out.

LGeezer: "She looks like she's wanting to park -- I best get my smug cyclist ass the way away from her rear end"

Since when have cyclists given a shiat about right of way or traffic laws?

namegoeshere: Stopping sharply causes drivers to spit their gum out the window. So the problem here is allowing drivers to chew gum with the windows down, obviously. A "Windows UP While Chewing" campaign will soon set things right.

This is the UK. They'll just outlaw gum.

LGeezer: And ... here's the wiki article on it (new window) including a reference to a similar project in Florida.

I knew something this stupid would be related to Florida somehow.