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Could it be anything to do with possible paid parking in the summer.

Not seen the barriers so i could be very wrong.

It would be seen as emergency measures and wont require permissions. Just like an emergency vehicle putting its flashing lights on. If you want to go down and see if it floods be my guest.

Dear me! Is it only two people on the Wirral who have common sense and the moan generator turned off?

I have in the past, often seen people moving the cones put in place to stop people going on the prom by the dips when it is considered too rough, so they could drive through the waves or drive there to get a better look. It became so bad that the Police have been forced to park at each of the roundabouts to enforce this. Remember, when it all goes wrong and the fools come to grief it's the emergency services or the volunteer lifeboat crews that will have to step in and put their lives at risk to help them. Also, please note that the roads around the dips belong to the council, which is why they can shut them for prom stages racing etc, so don't need to ask to anyone put road blocks up. Call it a nanny state if you like but if we have to sit coppers there to save people from themselves, I call that a waste of money. People today seem to have loads of 'Rights' but very little sense or responsibility.

Rant over and breathhhhhhhh

Oh come on, for Pete's sake, no-one is going to die or need the emergency services, from being soaked by a wave coming over the sea wall!! Has ANYONE, ever?????
This sure seems to be the Nanny State at work yet again... and I for one, am utterly FED UP with people in power WASTING finite and valuable resources (money) that could be MUCH better spent elsewhere (or better, SAVED and not spent at all!), on STUPID things like this.

If these barriers are anything to do with the high tides then they will almost certainly be trying to protect people's council tax being wasted on claims. There are too many people that manage to blow the tiniest incident into a compensation claim - drive through the waves, car gets scratched, council hadn't done enough to stop driver going through.............. claim for new car / paint job.
The council then have to prove that they did everything possible to stop these numpties putting themselves at risk or the claim is a done deal.
Don't have a go at the council, how many people do we all know who think it is perfectly acceptable to claim for a trip, bad back, scratched car at the drop of a hat ensuring that anyone is responsible for these 'accidents' except themselves.

CVCVCV The cost saving is in NOT having to sit a copper at every roundabout to stop fools from driving along the prom, you are quite correct that up until now nobody has been drowned on the prom, sat in their car BUT whether you like it or not d_ckheads still have to be protected from themselves because when it does go wrong, then everyone will say "Why didn't the council do something about this?". My feelings would always be "It's your own stupid fault" but I'm not a High Court Judge, Corroner or 'Claimes for You' ambulance chaser. My only worry about this is that when they introducce charging on the Marien lake end of New Brighton, they will shut these gates (as they do in places like Swanage) to stop us using the dips roadways as free alternative parking.......

I've driven along there when a massive wave has gone over the wall and really hit the windscreen with some force and its taken a few seconds for the deluge of water to be cleared.

In that time its theoretically possible for me to crash or hit someone. I think removing the risk isn't a bad idea.

I've been down there after a high tide & the amount of debris that's been thrown up like rocks,bricks & tree branches so driving down there with a high tide is likely to cause a smashed windscreen

This is just one more example of how our freedom is eroded, one little tiny bit at a time. Instead of fixing the problem of frivolous law-suits, ambulance chasers, etc, we all have to be cocooned in bubble-wrap. It's insidious but you only have to read above to see how "accepting" of it we have, and don't realize we have, become.

Good point. I've got a picture somewhere of the car park at Crosby after high tide, its full of bricks!