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Re:Put tiny businesses back into residential neighborhoods by pjc50 on Friday July 24, 2020 @11:33AM (#23940696)
There's usually nothing but fields or woodland behind the hedges. Have a poke about on google maps. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.0386913,-0.0888581,3a,90y,...

While I agree that they're bad for sightlines, they're also traditional and may be on private land, so getting rid of them from minor roads would be a hugely unpopular undertaking.

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Re:Put tiny businesses back into residential neighborhoods by jessaustin on Sunday July 26, 2020 @05:25PM (#23960310)
It's interesting to discover a seemingly avoidable hazard to which the British are sentimentally attached. Perhaps it's not quite comparable to our attachment to firearms.
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