Driver gets stuck in new ‘rain garden’ on first day after installation

Driver gets stuck in new ‘rain garden’ on first day after installation

Critics of new 'rain gardens' say they were proved right on day one after a driver mistook one of the newly-installed planters for tarmac and became stuck.

“Disaster” as lorry driver gets stuck in cycle lane planters… on first day of new ‘rain garden’

Getting used to new things can be difficult. Especially, it seems, when it involves motorists, parking, and newly installed cycling infrastructure. Or at least that was the case last week in Farnworth, where a lorry driver mistook a ‘rain garden’, separating a new bike lane from the road, for tarmac – and promptly got stuck.The ...