What the hell's a 'Trip Rail'?

[Dan]

Council are replacing the grass outside the house with "reinforced grass" (I chuckled to read that but I guess they just mean tougher grass like used for rugby etc) and a "trip rail". WTF is a trip rail?

I'm thinking either a hand rail (which we don't have now and I hope they don't stick one up as we and all the neighbours have to park our cars on there) or some funky kerb or something but I just can't get my head around it.

Any clues?

Trip Rail. Trip Rail. What are you Trip Rail?

 

[Dan]

Oh bugger, I think it's one of these: trip rail - Google Search

Clearly some interfering neighbour's idea. lol

Looks like they don't want us to park cars there. I tell you what, I'll gladly stick my old spacewagon on the proper road which has two blind bends on it (coming from both ways) but there have been 11 accidents in 18 months right there. It would last about half hour before causing an accident.

The tiny cul-de-sac style bit of road we have outside fits 4 cars there. There are 12 houses. Most have two cars. lol

This is going to be a funny one.

 

[Stewart]

Haven't a clue, but that's what you get for living in sheltered accommodation..........

 

[Ian]

You're being particularly abusive tonight Stewart! Are you still on maternity leave :lol:

 

[Stewart]

Never been abusive in my life Bri. Just have a very dry sense of humour and yes I'm still on paternity leave and loving it..... (;0)

 

[Dan]

lol Stew.



Checkout the tiny bit of parking we'd have if we didn't have the the grass accessible. And checkout the blind bend that was a 60 until the end of last year and now it's a 30 after all the accidents. One car flipped and landed in the house oposite us 1 meter from their actual house. Smashed through the fencing for the horses (luckily they shat it and ran it the other way away from the road) and was upside down. The lad was alright but well shaken up.

We have small drives around the back but A) unless you have an off roader you're going to be digging up the grass in the middle of the tracks with your radiator and the underside of your car as a bloke parks his van around there with all his work gear in it and it must be heavy as the tracks are a good 9inches deep. And B) you can actually turn the car the 90 degrees to get on the drive without having to again go off road a bit (in 5ft high grass) as it's never tendered to.

So unless they're tarting all that up too we're buggered.

 

[Ian]

Never been abusive in my life Bri. Just have a very dry sense of humour and yes I'm still on paternity leave and loving it..... (;0)

The drier the better mate! Keep up the good work!

 

[Stewart]

So what are they expecting you to do with your car then...? Surly they would be better off giving you parking at the front of the house!

 

[Dan]

Not sure. Going to ring the number on the letter to see what the crack is.

I can see why they call them trip rails, I've tripped on a few myself lol

 

[user123]

I think the idea is for you all to get a bicycle... see, how big brother looks after you to keep you well and happy? So much cheaper ...

 

[Dan]

Way to risky riding a bike down this road G. Canal is just across the field but we still get the serious cyclists on their racers down the road. They ride side by side too so you have to dart onto the wrong side of the road in your car. And there are about 5 blind bends on the road.

I have a feeling this will be going on for some time as they're right clicky around here and tend to write community letters to all sorts of people to complain. I'm guessing one of them have moaned about the grass looking a bit tatty around the edges where grass doesn't grow due to the cars always bumping up that bit of the kerb. But it's backfired this time as now they'll stop us driving on it full stop by the sounds of it.

Although they do say this new grass will be fully reinforced?! lol So perhaps I'm getting the wrong end of the stick.

 

[user123]

Maybe it's strong rye grass with plastic mesh underneath ...

 

[DHTiling]

They have some of these areas on the older part of our town... they will be plastic grids put down with open sections for the grass to grow through and this makes parking on them without damaging the grass base.. then the trip rail will be a small birds mouth type fence to stop you parking on the pavement..


Loads of off road parking is going this way as it makes it look nicer than tarmac'd areas..

 

[DHTiling]

This is the plastic and then the grass grows through it..

 

[Olz]

You need to go buy a couple of old bangers NOW, and every time you move your cars off the grass put them on, right were there going to put that rail, when they come to install it loose the keys, see how they manage to install a barrier with your cars smack bang in the way...lol