Rain

We had a spot of rain on Saturday, in fact it didn't stop and carried on through to Sunday morning. Good for the garden, but bad for the roads. Once again our roads prove unable to cope with rain. As always a river from Areley Common flowed down the entrance to Hermitage Way, as is becoming usual the left-hand lane of the newly-laid Dunley Road approaching Areley Lane was slick with surface water.

Just as the left-hand lane of the dual-carriageway heading both into and out of Stourport were so heavy with surface water that it was safer to drive on the, relatively, dry right-hand lane. With approaches to the Birchen Coppice lights being heavily puddled along the edges as to the approach into Kidderminster.

And finally again as usual the point just before the ambulance station was a pond you could have sailed model boats on.

Now of course you can fire of the standard excuse that this was extreme weather, but point one it isn't and point two this happens for everything baring a light shower. This is England, we wouldn't expect roads to melt in Australia or freeze in Canada; yet a rain turns our roads into slick danger zones.

As an addendum this isn't just roads, the rain shows up all the flaws in design at car-parks. The lowered kerbs at crossing points amass water and whoever designed the overhangs on the Crossley Retail park obviously didn't envision some the stores extending their entrances out beneath them foricing pedestrians out into the rain to either enter or walk around them.

And one last shout to Hackney Carriage No 75 overtaking me in the left-hand lane down The Ringway towards the bus station. I was doing a nip under 40mph (max speed 40mph) and he happily went past me before pulling over into the right-hand lane. Not sanguine with anyone doing that in the best of conditions, but with all that rain?