Mark Foster
Some do, but then they drive everywhere at 40-45 even on clear NSL roads. Are you really advocating that?
Usually after some nasty accident or other... Our village was made a 30mph limit a couple of years ago. The reason we believe it was eventually limited was that two police cars at speed and on the wrong side of the road at a bend on the exit from the village narrowly avoided totalling the doctors car. This road is allegedly too narrow (no central white line) to officially have 30mph village limits - at least that was the excuse NYCC always gave.
Our experience has been that after the speed limits were put up through traffic was slower (around 35 instead of 55mph). However, blocking the A19 crossroad has now so deminished through traffic that deer on the road is a new hazard early in the morning.
Another nearby village that gets a lot of the diverted traffic is still trying for a 30mph limit imposed on a rat-run with no pavement that the children have to walk to school along (the school is on that road). At present drivers barrel down it at rushhour doing 50+ mph and ignoring the threat to pedestrians and children. Again the road is allegedly "too small" to qualify for a statutory speed limit (until someone gets end that is).
Regards, Martin Brown
