{"id":2149,"date":"2017-03-24T20:24:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T20:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/ear\/?p=2149"},"modified":"2020-07-03T00:31:55","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T00:31:55","slug":"fonnereau-way-pedestrian-level-crossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/fonnereau-way-pedestrian-level-crossing\/","title":{"rendered":"Fonnereau Way pedestrian level crossing"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s something charming about the few pedestrian level crossings that take footpaths over the railway, reminders that the footpaths were here before the railways.<\/p>\n

Network Rail have hated this one on the Fonnereau Way for a while, trying to close it in 2012<\/a> and now they are back for another bite of the cherry<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In an attempt to show how lethal these things are, or perhaps how much the pedestrians are in need of a Darwin award they have erected this panjandrum to bark out dire audio warnings about walking into the path of an oncoming train while you are glued to your phone, distracted by children and various other hazards.<\/p>\n

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Fonnereau way (Westerfield) pedestrian level crossing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I stood by the annunicator tripping the PIR sensor to get the full sequence of announcements this thing barks out at passers-by. (recording edited slightly to shorten dead space)<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/sounds\/audio\/20170313-1451_audio_fonnereau_railway_crossing.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

To be honest, if you don’t pick up that something is amiss when you see this<\/p>\n

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and hear this<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/sounds\/audio\/20170313-1455_train.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

then you’re tired of living and should spend all of your time in your phone, else go collect your Darwin award<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Network Rail is trying to harangue the local landowners into going along with their scheming<\/p>\n

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flyers posted by Network Rail’s henchmen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Fonnereau Way has been used for a long time, although it’s been the subject of a fight when someone into horseyculture<\/a> bought a property in 2009 at the Westerfield terminal, claiming to be all surprised there was a footpath there, trying to block it up and have it stopped<\/a> on several occasions. Unsuccessfully, it appears. Nevertheless, Network Rail may yet succeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s something charming about the few pedestrian level crossings that take footpaths over the railway, reminders that the footpaths were here before the railways. Network Rail have hated this one on the Fonnereau Way for a while, trying to close it in 2012 and now they are back for another bite of the cherry. In … Continue reading “Fonnereau Way pedestrian level crossing”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sounds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5aOO7-yF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2149"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4145,"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions\/4145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}