Anyone already p***ed off with the 20 MPH limit in Bristol

Anyone already p***ed off with the 20 MPH limit in Bristol

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RemaL

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24,967 posts

233 months

Wednesday 11th March 2015
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Probably like many the new 20MPH limits came in force over the past few weeks. Anyone pissed off with this already

Just got a texted from the wife saying she thinks (hope not) that their is a camera on the kingsway St George that may have caught her taking the kids to school. She was doing around 25.

it seems madness on a long wide road to lower the limit.

Plus one road is a 30, then 20 then back to 30 then 20 again. I live about 1/2 mile from south glos borders.


Sorry just annoyed with our daft major who seems intend in doing his best to pee off every car/bike owner int eh city

blueg33

35,590 posts

223 months

Wednesday 11th March 2015
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Bristol attitude to cars is one of the two reasons my business doesn't operate in Bristol. I am glad I moved away.

Yertis

18,016 posts

265 months

Wednesday 11th March 2015
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RemaL said:
it seems madness
Is all you needed to say really.

juice

8,511 posts

281 months

Wednesday 11th March 2015
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Can't very well have people "zooming" around when it's "Green Capital 2015" now, can we ?


Ferguson is an utter pillock.

rolleyes

MudSkipper

2,404 posts

217 months

Wednesday 11th March 2015
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One of the girls i work with has just been stung by a scamera van, git caught overtaking a pedalist on the downs going 33mph, she saud she hoped to get a speed awareness course, only for the letter to arrive, 3 points & £100 fine as it's now 20mph around there.

Z0m81e

249 posts

141 months

Wednesday 11th March 2015
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They've just done most of my commute home through St George/Lodge Causeway/Fishponds and its a proper pain in the ass not least for the extra time it takes to get home. Most people seem to ignore them anyway and i'm not surprised though there was a news story last week about how the police weren't enforcing it so presumably they might start taking notice now (or indeed following it themselves). Like was mentioned in a previous post I don't mind them doing it on side roads and the like but when you're setting the limit on the main arterial routes into the city to 20 its just a piss take.

spaximus

4,230 posts

252 months

Wednesday 11th March 2015
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Hateful situation but looking on the bright side perhaps whilst the camera vans have now started "shooting fish in a barrel" they may see this more lucrative and as a result will leave better roads alone.

Also if so many normal people who associated speeding with idiots are now caught, they may not be so happy to go along with these idiots running the council

Z0m81e

249 posts

141 months

Wednesday 11th March 2015
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Unfortunately as I live just over the South Glos border I don't get to vote in the mayoral election so I just get to put up with the stupid policies. No pressure citizens of Bristol but sort this out next election, preferably if they do the referendum on abandoning the mayor again then just get rid of it altogether.

aka_kerrly

12,416 posts

209 months

Wednesday 11th March 2015
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spaximus said:
Also if so many normal people who associated speeding with idiots are now caught, they may not be so happy to go along with these idiots running the council
The joke is the mayor of Bristol who wanted the policy has already been done for speedinglaugh



Funk

26,254 posts

208 months

Wednesday 11th March 2015
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Very glad Worthing managed to get the proposed 20mph limit killed.

LordGrover

33,532 posts

211 months

Wednesday 11th March 2015
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Anyone applying to be a town or city councillor, MP or any politician for that matter should be disallowed for the mere desire to become one. Clueless, self-important, pious, odious creatures - every last one of them.

Councils and the like should be like jury service - anyone may be selected at random and obliged to take part for a limited period.

RemaL

Original Poster:

24,967 posts

233 months

Wednesday 11th March 2015
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Glad i'm not alone in my feels towards our arse of a mayor and his crap ideas.

When I hear about how much is spent on this and how my wife's cousins have had to fight to save Just 300k from a special school they need that is losing funding it makes me very pissed off

garfys v8s

1,257 posts

223 months

Wednesday 11th March 2015
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George ferguson = Reddus Trouserus ios maximus.

carreauchompeur

17,830 posts

203 months

Wednesday 11th March 2015
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bks. Didn't realise 20mph zones now being enforced. What an utter crock of ste.

blueg33

35,590 posts

223 months

Wednesday 11th March 2015
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Who votes these half witted brain dead self important knobs into power?

As I said earlier I won't base my southwest business in Bristol and am stopping using businesses based there as arriving by car is a pain. So far two firms of lawyers and architect and my previous dentist have lost my business. Excluding the dentist that's about half a mill £ turnover the City has lost in the last 9 months.

Edited by blueg33 on Wednesday 11th March 20:59

aardvark64

95 posts

185 months

Wednesday 11th March 2015
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Ah, but the city is such a nicer, cleaner, healthier, more wholesome place to be as a result. Allegedly. I wouldn't know, I don't go into Bristol for exactly the same reason as you....

Best wishes, Colin

RemaL

Original Poster:

24,967 posts

233 months

Thursday 12th March 2015
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My work/business is in South glos but I need to go into bristol for it. not fun and worse now

I wonder what ferguson did to find out who wanted the 20MPH in the first place. My best it is he talked to all the cyclists, Anti car groups in the area and left out the people who use the roads the most

As per normal these days.

Anyone know the best way (and legal) to get him out of power

andylaurence

438 posts

210 months

Thursday 12th March 2015
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The consultation paper made interesting reading. The evidence provided didn't appear to support the 20mph speed limit it recommended.

That George Ferguson got caught speeding himself shows he's completely missed the point on safer driving. It's about awareness of your surroundings and driving appropriately. It's not about rigidly adhering to an arbitrary limit. Had he been adequately aware of his surroundings, he'd have noticed the speed limit of the road he was travelling on and the bright yellow camera that's been there as long as I can remember and slowed appropriately. Clearly, he was inattentive and that cost him.

LordGrover

33,532 posts

211 months

Thursday 12th March 2015
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So he's not just a , he's an inattentive . yes

carreauchompeur

17,830 posts

203 months

Thursday 12th March 2015
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The trouble is, the 20mph limit isn't something that we will ever come back from. And it's still spreading across the city.

It's rubbish. If this had been thought about properly, I would have been all in favour of small limited sections of 20mph (like the Home Zones) and them being enforced properly. Dangerous areas, if you will.

The blanket bit just means people ignore it.