Re wilded roundabouts

[Devil's advocate]

This might be just a South Yorkshire thing.

All the local roundabouts are turning into jungles, used to be mown every few weeks but now plant with hedge row type plants & rewilded.

This is fine if the roundabout has traffic lights, but medium sized roundabouts are a death trap now.

 

[dave78+]

This might be just a South Yorkshire thing.

All the local roundabouts are turning into jungles, used to be mown every few weeks but now plant with hedge row type plants & rewilded.

This is fine if the roundabout has traffic lights, but medium sized roundabouts are a death trap now.

Blimey! Better tell the elf and safe tea people ASAP.

 

[Gedd]

This might be just a South Yorkshire thing.

All the local roundabouts are turning into jungles, used to be mown every few weeks but now plant with hedge row type plants & rewilded.

This is fine if the roundabout has traffic lights, but medium sized roundabouts are a death trap now.

A few like that around here as well over grown mess was sown with a wild flower mix now weed and ragwort

 

[Kidds]

One roundabout nearby has the most spectacular stand of docks I have ever seen. Nearly stopped just to take a pic.

 

[Devil's advocate]

Blimey! Better tell the elf and safe tea people ASAP.

So not nationwide then

Seems to be all over South Yorkshire. Local one used to be like a bowling green. Now advertising hoarding, huge bushes, hanging baskets on lampposts. A red deer could calve there, no one would ever know.

 

[bobk]

Councils are broke , topping up staff pensions , ours are same

 

[Slippery Slope]

The country is a mess. I’m not against doing our best for nature but it seems to be the new excuse for councils to use so that they can spend money on other useless projects.

 

[Spencer]

As above, new council policy to stop doing work and incurring costs.

 

[Jackov Altraids]

I couldn't understand why I was finding it so hard to negotiate a roundabout safely and realised it was due to the overgrown reservation. It really did make things quite dangerous.
And how beneficial is a 'rewilded' circle contained by wide and busy roads?. . . . . . .

 

[delilah]

Need some Ermintrudes on them.

 

[Sid]

I couldn't understand why I was finding it so hard to negotiate a roundabout safely and realised it was due to the overgrown reservation. It really did make things quite dangerous.
And how beneficial is a 'rewilded' circle contained by wide and busy roads?. . . . . . .

Noticed driving through town yesterday how many "wild areas" there was with dogs being walked through them.

Wildlife loves cars,dogs and people

 

[grainboy]

But,
The once a year cut and remove is more costly than regular maintenance,

 

[JockCroft]

Road verges. If you dont cut em ther left to nature. Cut em you get fined. If you have a "traffic incidient" Tough luck.

 

[Sid]

But,
The once a year cut and remove is more costly than regular maintenance,

Perhaps the councils should be using scythes and cutterbars rather than flails on grass and hedges if they want to be green

 

[Bertram]

Apparently it's ok for local authorities to grow great big banks of ragwort all over the roadsides, its jolly nice for bugs to live in. As long as those unscrupulous farmers and landowners spend loads of time and money and effort controlling theirs.

 

[grainboy]

You’ll have a job to find someone capable of operating a scythe,
Oh and the RAMs would be interesting,

 

[delilah]

Now advertising hoarding,

Always thought this is mental. Just where you need folk to be concentrating on their driving, they put distracting signs.

 

[Devil's advocate]

But,
The once a year cut and remove is more costly than regular maintenance,

Not been cut for 4 or 5 years, its like a thick hedgerow. I'm more than happy to flail it tomorrow morning at 5am, but suspect there would be no shortage of council officers Monday morning looking for me.

Total death trap, I have near misses every day, even with the tractor, flipping advertising hoarding & some very pointless hanging baskets can see nothing.

 

[PostHarvest]

The once a year cut and remove is more costly than regular maintenance,

My local council decided to cut once this year and insisted that the contractor used an electric mower. The machine went all black and crispy - but of course that's environmentally friendly.

 

[Wilksy]

Roundabouts are the only place I see rabbits these days