I received a TRO for Greaves Lane - the intention is to introduce a 20mph limit outside High Green primary school (although there is no evidence that only introducing 20mph outside schools increases safety) . However, the Council couldn't quite bring itself to lower the speed limit to 20 on this road throughout as it is a "distributor road". So a transitional limit of 30mph is being introduced on either side of the 20mph, to give drivers the chance to slow down from 60 outside the urban area. A further consideration is that adjoining residential roads will not have their limits reduced, so would have higher speeds than the 'main' road they lead to.
The whole thing seems a bit of a dog's dinner: is 60 an appropriate speed for a rural lane anyway, and why is the whole residential area nor being treated as a 20mph zone? I suppose this is the inevitable result of the city's decision not to introduce 20mph as the default speed across the city, but to do it piecemeal. Hopefully it will be looked at again when the city gets round to rolling out Total 20 properly.
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The whole thing seems a bit of a dog's dinner: is 60 an appropriate speed for a rural lane anyway, and why is the whole residential area nor being treated as a 20mph zone? I suppose this is the inevitable result of the city's decision not to introduce 20mph as the default speed across the city, but to do it piecemeal. Hopefully it will be looked at again when the city gets round to rolling out Total 20 properly.
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