Campervan stranded.

[Pedalman]

were there any horses in it

I saw this on the local news, the horse box was not carrying horses.

 

[Dee]

Not these then https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-20047984

What a shame, especially when article states he speaks/reads little English, although there are signs in several different languages.

Perhaps the answer are flashing red lights at either end of causeway when it gets near to the time that crossing will see vehicle submerged?

That'll the end of their holidays.

 

[wildebus]

Not been to Holy Isle for a while, signs look the bizz. I guess another option would barriers, similar to rail crossing barriers, automatic and programed around the tide tables.

I think barriers would be a good idea.
but automated could be a problem if they close when someone is on the causeway already as they will then be stuck.

 

[mark61]

Put the barrier few hundred meters up the road. Open a coffee shop.

 

[mariesnowgoose]

Incredibly, there has never been a fatality on the Holy Island causeway in over 60 years.

There won't be a barrier until someone (or more than one person) drowns/dies. Isn't that normally what happens? They have to become "accident blackspots" before further action is taken?

Personally I think the status quo should remain with that causeway. I know everything around us gets continuously 'dumbed down', but seriously? Maybe no one should be allowed to cross it unless they've got the correct 'Holy Island' app on their smart devices first, telling them precisely what to do (and maybe when they should breathe as well?).

And on the issue of 'nanny state' maybe we should also fence off every cliff in the country in case folk are daft enough to get close enough to the edge to accidentally fall off 'em. Some folk have seriously wanted this too!

 

[wildebus]

Yes as Mark said, beyond the High Spring water line would work.

and the vehicle would be stuck there behind the barrier for hours until it was safe to cross again (but they have already crossed!)

 

[mariesnowgoose]

I've never been when tide is on the flood, I take it that the water moves rapid fashion on the flood, meaning, road surface showing at middle, near the triple decker bus stop, then by the time you get to bus stop, road surface is submerged??

From what I remember Terry, yes. The triple decker refuge shelter is there for idiots who attempt to cross and get stranded. If you go by foot across the Pilgrim's Way that is far more dangerous than the tarmac roadway and there have been drowning fatalities on that route.

When I was a kid my Dad and I once walked out to the triple decker refuge before high tide just to experience being stranded. We spent the time waiting for the tide to recede reading & birdwatching ( he was keen ornithologist).

 

[mark61]

and the vehicle would be stuck there behind the barrier for hours until it was safe to cross again (but they have already crossed!)

Hence the coffee shop. Captured audience

 

[Old Man Down]

And I thought I had trouble with damp !

 

[Pedalman]

and the vehicle would be stuck there behind the barrier for hours until it was safe to cross again (but they have already crossed!)

The barrier does not need to be exactly at the high water line, it could be placed 100yds from that point.

 

[mariesnowgoose]

No barrier please.

 

[Flostravels]

Swiss - ha! All those lakes - didn’t think about tides!!