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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threespires

4,289 posts

210 months

Thursday 12th March 2015
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I didn't know about this. I was thinking about a weekend break in Bristol this summer. I'll forget it now.

LordGrover

33,531 posts

211 months

Thursday 12th March 2015
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Fukcwits united: click.

Z0m81e

249 posts

141 months

Thursday 12th March 2015
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carreauchompeur said:
The blanket bit just means people ignore it.
It's true i'm usually very good with speed limits around town will always do 30 on the nail even if people tail gate me but I just can't be fked with the 20 limits I don't see the point in them on wide A roads, on a residential side street sure but the A420 and such? I just ignore them like everyone else. Plus when I used to do 20 on the hill into town from Eastville Park people used to undertake in the bus lane.

aardvark64

95 posts

185 months

Thursday 12th March 2015
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LordGrover said:
Fukcwits united: click.
Hahahahahahahaha - good one. Tell me it's a spoof. Please....

Best wishes, Colin

RemaL

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24,967 posts

233 months

Thursday 12th March 2015
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LordGrover said:
Fukcwits united: click.
s can go and fk themselves the utter pricks. fk them fk Ferguson and fk 20 fking MPH

I've had a few beers but stylised off

DevonPaul

1,169 posts

136 months

Thursday 12th March 2015
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carreauchompeur said:
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.
I don't think it is necessarily a bad thing, as long as every cyclist caught exceeding it has their cycle crushed and has to walk home naked.

bristolracer

5,527 posts

148 months

Friday 13th March 2015
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blueg33 said:
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
Are you listening Mr Ferguson?
You are killing business in Bristol.

Your policies on congestion have not worked, accept that and find some new traffic consultants,traffic lights every 30 yards,no turning right,go foward to the next traffic light controlled roundabout(wtf?) come back the way you came and turn left makes peoples journeys longer and therefore more polluting.

Why can I drive from my house in Brentry to Reading faster than i can get from Brentry to Whitchurch in rush hour?

The 20mph limit if you have to enforce it must be signposted better if you are going to change the assumption that built up areas are now 20 and not 30 as we used to be taught then please put up signs that are bigger than a side plate.

We dont want buses and their associated lanes they are not fit for our purposes of getting to where we want at a time and cost that suits us. They are a bygone relic of an age when the population could not afford their own car.

We certainly dont want you and your loonie mates getting more control of local budgets esp the really important stuff like NHS, please leave that to the experienced idiots in Whitehall

Oh and finally when the President of Singapore comes to visit you, Please put a suit on, those red trousers dont make you look "rebellious" they just make you (and Bristol) look like a C**t . Show some respect



Fitz666

634 posts

141 months

Friday 13th March 2015
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We have this to look forward to in Edinburgh soon...

gcpeters

959 posts

231 months

Friday 13th March 2015
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so they implemented this in my village/town a few months back and I got to say its not as bad as you would think, the reasons are..

1) no one obeys it... 99% of all drivers where I live don't bother sticking to 20, you might get the odd one once a month..
2) the police have fully admitted they cant enforce it... (which helps with number 1)

my issue is it cost millions to implement, and it doesn't even work.... (and it was a stupid idea anyhow)

I twitted Georgey F to ask him if he thinks it actually worked, stating the above..... he never replied..

how long till we can get him out?


carreauchompeur

17,830 posts

203 months

Friday 13th March 2015
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gcpeters said:
so they implemented this in my village/town a few months back and I got to say its not as bad as you would think, the reasons are..

1) no one obeys it... 99% of all drivers where I live don't bother sticking to 20, you might get the odd one once a month..
2) the police have fully admitted they cant enforce it... (which helps with number 1)

my issue is it cost millions to implement, and it doesn't even work.... (and it was a stupid idea anyhow)

I twitted Georgey F to ask him if he thinks it actually worked, stating the above..... he never replied..

how long till we can get him out?
I would have agreed with all of this a few weeks ago, however the fact now stands that THE SCP ARE NOW ENFORCING IT! Massive peril.

spaximus

4,230 posts

252 months

Friday 13th March 2015
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Yes that is the big change that the SCP now claim to have accurate enough equipment to enforce this lunacy.

The vast majority of people ignore it on the main roads because the police said it was unenforceable and quite frankly some of the roads people drive appropriately not at a limit that is wrong.

The people being caught are not petrolheads they are otherwise decent people who now feel criminalised by those who are in charge of the asylum.

I hope someone is voted in who understands both safety and the needs of a modern city to have business. Without it who will pay for all the mayors excess?

gcpeters

959 posts

231 months

Friday 13th March 2015
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Any links to where the police have now said they are enforcing it?

jules_s

4,235 posts

232 months

Friday 13th March 2015
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bristolracer said:
We dont want buses and their associated lanes they are not fit for our purposes of getting to where we want at a time and cost that suits us. They are a bygone relic of an age when the population could not afford their own car.
Imagine my joy at taking 45 mins to get through St Mary Redcliffe traffic to be met by TWO bendy buses straddling the roundabout and not a single person on either of them

I've seen mobile camera units policing the Bedminster 20 mph zones before now

carreauchompeur

17,830 posts

203 months

Friday 13th March 2015
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gcpeters said:
Any links to where the police have now said they are enforcing it?
Evening Post have a list of locations but anywhere seems fair game now. And it's not likely to be the dangerous, twisty bits. rolleyes

Raynkar

111 posts

108 months

Saturday 14th March 2015
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like others here I live in South glos, but am only one mile outside of Bristol.

Also like others I'm disparing at Bristols lovely mayor !
My son works at a company in Clifton who employ fifty people. Their average wage is well above UK average and they spends lots of money in their surrounding area. They are about to relocate out of Bristol as the new parking charges are coming Into force where they are. For fifty employees they are allowed to have TWO parking permits, but these can only be used directly in front of the company.............where there are double yellow lines so the permits can't be used.

But what can we expect from out local elected leaders..................officials who are happy to have several stretches of the A4174 ring road with entry and exit junctions on a 70mph limit, but a single stretch with no entries or exits (but a police camera van layby) on a 50mph limit.

RemaL

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24,967 posts

233 months

Sunday 15th March 2015
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carreauchompeur said:
gcpeters said:
so they implemented this in my village/town a few months back and I got to say its not as bad as you would think, the reasons are..

1) no one obeys it... 99% of all drivers where I live don't bother sticking to 20, you might get the odd one once a month..
2) the police have fully admitted they cant enforce it... (which helps with number 1)

my issue is it cost millions to implement, and it doesn't even work.... (and it was a stupid idea anyhow)

I twitted Georgey F to ask him if he thinks it actually worked, stating the above..... he never replied..

how long till we can get him out?
I would have agreed with all of this a few weeks ago, however the fact now stands that THE SCP ARE NOW ENFORCING IT! Massive peril.
Any why I posted this. Not just the stupidity of how this has been done but the fact they have reduced the roads to 20MPH then put mobile cameras up within a week on these roads.

The fact that not all roads are 20MPH, you can go one road to the next and the speed limit changes. People including myself are unsure if the next corner I come to will have a mobile camera and with the little 20MPH signs around they can be missed I'm surprised if anyone knows what road is a 30 and what is a 20 anymore

Utter madness.

RemaL

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24,967 posts

233 months

Sunday 15th March 2015
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HELP BECOME A PACE CARS WTF

Pace Cars
Help keep speeds low in your area!
The council are working with the police to ensure that roads included in the 20 mph schemes look and feel like a slower road to help drivers comply with the speed limit, but you as a driver can also play a role to reduce speeds by becoming a PACE CAR!
If you wish to become a Pace Car email 20mph@bristol.gov.uk and ask to become a PACE CAR. A car sticker will be sent out for you to put in your car and a sticker to put on your dashboard. When people are driving behind they will see the sticker and understand why you are driving at a slower pace.

http://www.bristol20mph.co.uk/get-involved

pricks

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These have proved popular with residents: 82% support the 20mph speed limit post-implementation.

RemaL

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24,967 posts

233 months

Sunday 15th March 2015
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LordGrover

33,531 posts

211 months

Monday 16th March 2015
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I went to a concert at St Georges on Saturday so my first venture into Bristol proper since the change.
Most of the time it was impossible to achieve 20mph anyway.
The 40 limit on the M32, a motorway FFS was rather disturbing too. To some extent a gradual reduction as you approach Newfoundland Road's 30 limit, lights and inevitable queues would be understandable, but leaving the sthole that is Bristol city? I can't wait to get away from the place so 70's not fast enough!

carreauchompeur

17,830 posts

203 months

Monday 16th March 2015
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To be fair, the 40 limit is because the barrier is apparently shagged. Wouldn't be surprised to see it become permanent though.

I was pleased to see the Safety Camera Partnership out at 7.30 on Saturday morning policing the dangerous inbound stretch of Feeder Road though. Great work- picking the only time when you'd manage to exceed 30 and the least dangerous time of week for that road.