Believe it or not, if you took out all the issues involved in getting yourself, your family and your possessions from a to b – that is, driving, parking, road surfaces, road safety and public transport – I would have very much less to worry about.
I ‘ve put PUBLIC TRANSPORT on its own page ands intend to have a special page for my own form of transport – the wonderful BICYCLE 
) – so this page is devoted to the CAR.
The car is a worthy servant but a bad master. Speaking as a cyclist I can certify that almost all the cars driven in Woodbridge and its environs are driven and parked well and responsibly. A few aren’t.
Last year I was knocked off my bike in broad daylight when cycling correctly and safely on the left hand side of Naunton Road. By an oncoming driver who was taking the corner on the wrong side and drove straight into me. Bruised and shaken (though remarkably unhurt) I burst into tears and said
“Do you realise that if you’d killed me there would be nobody to look after my children!”
To be fair, I think that shocked him almost more than the impact.
There are parking blackspots in various places.
The photoes here were taken on Hasketon Road where parents, waiting to pick up Farlingaye school children,
The effects of careless - and illegal - parking
churn up the verges and obscure the road, making it dangerous for other students to cross on foot or cycle.
Rut in Grundisburgh Road
People feel they have a right to park as close to their destination as possible. Would they do it if they were riding an elephant? yet your average car weighs about the same
