30mph speed limit

[Martin]

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Bring in 30mph limit say residents

WORRIED residents are calling for the brakes to be put on drivers speeding on a Leyland road.

Householders in the Leyland Lane area have expressed concerns at the speed limit on the road.
The national speed limit is currently in force on the road, but as vehicles approach the new roundabout at the bottom of the stretch of B-road towards Eccleston, the limit changes to 30 miles per hour.
Now local residents want the whole of the road to be slapped with a 30mph limit.

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There seem to be a lot of changes to speed all around the country. in Somerset I've noticed a lot of reduced limits being enforced around the county. A sign of the times perhaps.

[Kath smith]

I'd settle for a 40 limit on that stretch of road. It isn't that straight really and the bend just past the end of Alker Lane is a bad one.

I wish they'd make all the roads on estates 20mph like the side roads in Preston. But its easier to put up speed cameras on main roads and wait for the money to come rolling in.
My husband had an accident which wasn't speed related and the stretch of road wasn't lit, within months of his accident street lighting was installed and the speed limit is now 40 not 60 as it was then. Strangly there isnt a camera up yet.

[LDunlop76]

What annoys me is that if you slow down to a safer speed in an area where you know children are playing out, some idiot drives right up your backside. The road we live on is narrow and has no pavements for much of its length, so it's not safe to go above 20mph, but boy racers are up and down here at well over 30 day and night. I guess some people will only learn the hard way.

[Martin]

One thing I have noticed around Somerset, is that the speed lmits often change on a long stretch of road and this is very confusing if you travel the same journey each day. recently, I went to Glastonbury after work, I hadn't done this journey for a month or two, but I was surprised to find myself speeding in a couple of areas that had previously been at the national speed limit.

[LDunlop76]

Yes, I've been caught out like that too, Martin. One of the roads I drive into work on was 60 a Friday night, 40 by Monday morning, with no prior notice given. I was surprised the traffic cops weren't out with their radar gun - they'd have caught loads of people speeding that first week, until drivers twigged that the speed limit had been reduced!