Life line
I was watching 'Spotlight' (BBC South West news magazine) this evening and was absolutely horrified when I heard about plans to get rid of emergency phones on the North Devon Link Road.
The fact that ANY money was spent on calls last year proves that they are being used. Mobile phone coverage in rural areas is patchy at best as it is done by population coverage, not geographical coverage. So removing these emergency land lines will put anyone that travels down that road at risk.
It's truly shocking how far politicians are prepared to go to save money. £7000 is peanuts when you consider the difference that not having them could make.
Admittedly it isn't as isolated a stretch of road as the A30 which clips Dartmoor and Bodmin Moor but I still wouldn't like to be stuck in the middle of nowhere without knowing how to get help. Those orange boxes provide reassurance if nothing else when you're driving alone.
posted by Phill @ 7:45 pm
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Was talking about this at work. We decided that if you're going to get rid of emergency phones because of the assumption that everyone has a mobile then using the same logic you might as well get rid of lighthouses because everyone has GPS.
Good words.
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