just been told

shevy s bends are shut due to accident.

bends should have been straightened out two years ago but farmer on the bend wanted 'more' than market value

I remember a friends Sister going down those bends on a pushbike a goodly amount of years ago. Lost control and went through the barbed wire, cut her leg open from knee to groin. MANY stitches

Those bends should be left alone, they are part of a route that has existed for hundreds of years and their removal would be a crime against history and landscape.

Also I doubt a wider, faster road would be safer.

Be a lot safer if there were "ROAD UNSUITABLE FOR HGV's" signs at Martand Mill and Shevvy Moor. But that don't suit the council as Pemberton and Standish are virtually blocked all day as it is.

I find what usually works is: slow down, turn the steering wheel and it sort of goes round the corner, dead easy.
The only time I have come close to an accident on the z bends is when I went into them TOO FAST, to find standing traffic, nobodies fault but mine. Straighten them out and it will just encourage greater speeds. Personally I think the bends at the Owd Barn are more dangerous.
STOP THE HGV's, SIMPLE.

Be a lot safer if there were "ROAD UNSUITABLE FOR HGV's" signs at Martand Mill and Shevvy Moor. But that don't suit the council as Pemberton and Standish are virtually blocked all day as it is.

I find what usually works is: slow down, turn the steering wheel and it sort of goes round the corner, dead easy.
The only time I have come close to an accident on the z bends is when I went into them TOO FAST, to find standing traffic, nobodies fault but mine. Straighten them out and it will just encourage greater speeds. Personally I think the bends at the Owd Barn are more dangerous.
STOP THE HGV's, SIMPLE.

And that as well.

We heard you the first time.

ha ha that barbed wire has had me as well when i was a kid on my push bike lol

Man arrested

If you are going to have a moan get your fact`s right ...HGV replaced a few years ago by LGV ....Large goods vehicle .......Belive me there are loads more worse roads to take a LGV down than the 2 mentioned ,

there was another accident a few weeks ago near the same spot. The guy tried to run from the police, I heard.

One of the few roads left in Wigan that has character and integrates with the contours of the land, leave it alone.
I think even Sledge would agree with me?

The man:
Before you criticise, learn to spell..

"Belive me"......Oh dear!!!

BTW, I was an HGV driver...At that time, an LGV, was a light goods vehicle....probably before you were born tho'

Art

This list shows the current vehicle classification for the road fund licence.
It looks more like an exercise in revenue raising than vehicle grouping.
Lorry

Art .Just because you are old it still is no excuse for not knowing what a LGV is ......Also as you point I am also a qualified LGV/PCV driver and I know the difference. Old age is no excuse

HGV...LGV...LDV...They were descriptions easy to remember.

Just 'coz a change in the letters happens. The vehicle description doesn't.

Remember...YOU were the critic

Art ..Your the one who has no idea ...you were the one who got it ...wrong but as you state you were driving ..HGV before I was born I put it down to age dont let it get you down ...

I use this road a lot and if two - shall we say - large vehicles hit the bends at the same time there is a very near miss as 'large vehicles' go well over the middle line as they take the corner. This is because they are not bad drivers but are large vehicles. They should not be on this road. This has been discussed several times at Shevington Parish Council M
meetings and the opinion is that signs should be put at Martland Mill and Shevington Moore stopping large vehicles using this short cut to the motorway.

Margaret
Do you think that the signs will be put in place ? if s when

Answer no.1..NO

Answer no. 2...NEVER

I believe that a "cure" of putting various signs AT THE APPROACH to the bends is the preferred option of WMBC. Perhaps Traffic lights are on the agenda?
Anything exept two simple signs which would do the job effectively at little cost..

I'm always suspicious of someome who describes himself as :"The man"

Usually a pre-pubescent youth, strutting along with a heavy chain attached to an ugly terrier type dog..

Art.
No I dont walk about with you on a lead, If that is your thing, them I think you are on the wrong forum ....but each to his own .

them I think you are on the wrong forum ....but each to his own ......Eh?
English yer 2nd language then

Correct art ..... you do look the part in a chain ...like I said each to his own do you mean ....your... 2nd language or is it the way you dribble out your words....or is the chain too tight for you ,

art and theman, you have both lost the thread that kellysdad started, come down off your high horses,life is too short for petty arguments

Evelyn ...........Who is arguing ??? As far as I am concerned this is friendly banter, nothing wrong with giving and taking a few insults, were would life be with out it ?? no one is geting hurt

OK, so glad to know that the gloves are off, IF they were ever on.

Gloves off = more serious than gloves on.

No gloves = bare knuckle fighting.

Especially if they are this kind of glove

That my friends you will never know