Chanterlands Avenue pigeons again

John Fareham and John Abbott have secured the fitting of spikes to the Chanterlands Avenue railway bridge in a further attempt at keeping pigeons off it. Our original intention was to have replacement netting fitted, but on the advice of the officers we accepted an alternative proposal involving the fitting of spikes on the beams which pass over the carriageway and the pavement. This does not of course, as we have observed at first hand, preclude birds getting on to such beams as are not protected with spikes, but it does at least afford some protection for motorists and pedestrians whilst avoiding the problems previously encountered with netting whereby pigeons could and did get trapped inside it with fatal consequences for the birds themselves.