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Make sheppey bridge safe to cross

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Guest#126 Jul 02, 2014, 00:23
Sheppy bridge. Need to close down and they need to re think on safety on driving part and save to let us cross by foot. Something needs to be done ASAP, before we loose more to the damned bridge x
Professional Driver#127 Jul 02, 2014, 00:30
Such a tragic loss of life. However, lets get this straight. There is nothing wrong with the bridge. I drive over it every week day in my lorry, and never once has the bridge tried to make me crash. It's never swayed from side to side, or jumped up and down. That leaves the people that use it. There are calls for the bridge to have lights installed. Maybe, but you do have headlights on your car, and this accident was in daylight. A speed restriction maybe. Well to the person moaning about lorries, I would be going over the bridge at the same speed as I do now, 50! Warning signs. Not a bad idea. Although, by the time they are activated, it's usually too late. And referring back to the big pile up in the fog, if you need a sign to tell you it's foggy, then maybe you shouldn't be driving!! A hard shoulder? Unless you reduce the road to a single lane, this is impossible! I have a couple of suggestions. Drive more carefully. Concentrate on what you are doing (for those that don't know, that's driving) Get off your bloody mobiles ( I followed a woman past the accident today, who was texting. apart from, strangely, when she went past the Police) Take those bloody ear phones out, and stop scanning through your ipad. So lets wait till we know the full facts of the accident before we condemn the Sheppey Crossing, which, after all, is just sitting there, being a bridge.
Guest#128 Jul 02, 2014, 01:10
Put at least 3 cameras on each side of the bridge and reduce speed to at least 40 mph and put low level lighting on for night and fog driving
Guest#129 Jul 02, 2014, 02:13
Make this bridge safe
Guest#130 Jul 02, 2014, 02:17
Average speed camera only way it would work
Guest#131 Jul 02, 2014, 04:08
Please stop more lives being wasted. There needs to be matrix warning signs and a speed limit on this bridge.
Guest#132 Jul 02, 2014, 05:21
Speed Cameras are a must, too many drivers speed over the bridge.
Guest#133 Jul 02, 2014, 05:29
How many more accidents are going to happen before something is done?
Guest#134 Jul 02, 2014, 05:32
This needs to happen before more people die. God rest the mum and child that lost their lives yesterday.
Guest#135 Jul 02, 2014, 05:35
I do not drive, my husband does, and we often say that drivers do go to fast on the bridge. And we think speed cameras would help.
Guest#136 Jul 02, 2014, 05:54
Make the bridge safer
Guest#137 Jul 02, 2014, 05:56
I have had a chalet in Leysdown for 26yrs. I feel the traffic go too fast over this bridge.
Guest#138 Jul 02, 2014, 05:59
I watched this bridge built as I was working on sheppey at the time. Awful that it is so dangerous. I agree that speed cameras and warning signs need to go up .
Guest#139 Jul 02, 2014, 06:01
signed petition hopes something is done soon before any more people have an accident
Guest#140 Jul 02, 2014, 06:04
My 5 year old daughter school Queenborough she got school trip with group in coach my fears is bridge coz many accident. I feel like I cannot let my daughter go on want her stay home :-( but government moan children's must go
Guest#141 Jul 02, 2014, 06:07
please help save lives by making this safe
Guest#142 Jul 02, 2014, 06:11
We need to address the safety issues of this Bridge as a matter of urgency. It is lethal. Before more deaths occur. There is a blind spot on the highest point both sides. No lighting no speed restrictions. It's a deathtrap
Guest#143 Jul 02, 2014, 06:11
Reduce the speed and make it safer
Guest#144 Jul 02, 2014, 06:15
Please make this a safe road!
Guest#145 Jul 02, 2014, 06:28
too many lives have been lost already, it needs something doing to it, either that or more police patrols around there and infact around sheppey.
Guest#146 Jul 02, 2014, 06:29
I lived here on isle of Sheppey for many years I want it yo be safe to cross I still have friends there.
Guest#147 Jul 02, 2014, 06:29

Sheppey bridge

I had many happy years living here and still have friends there make bridge safe
Guest#148 Jul 02, 2014, 06:30
Even if you dont live anywhere near here please sign it
and help so no one else loses there lives. xx
Guest#149 Jul 02, 2014, 06:31
The new bridge should never have been built! How many accidents need to happen before somebody improves it!
Guest#150 Jul 02, 2014, 06:38
After the huge pile up in the fog, that should have been a warning!