Bristol Speed limit stupididty.

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F1 ASBO said:

Spx said:

Grow up!
When you have kids you'll want the limits back to 20mph.

I have kids and I do not agree with you.

+1

[LordGrover]

ajuk said:

There is another petition against Bristol's speed limits here

We signed the last one and feck all's happened since - click.

[F1 ASBO]

GlenMH said:

And it gets worse: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-37404...

With permanent SPECs too. South Glouc is even less car friendly than Bristol, which is frankly remarkable!

Interesting that the guys name is 'Sane' - I think not!

[F1 ASBO]

hornetrider said:

Jesus titty fking christ. They've all lost their frickin minds.

Thank you for brightening up my day! Made me laugh out loud, I will use that phrase all this week I think!

[F1 ASBO]

GlenMH said:

And it gets worse: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-37404...

With permanent SPECs too. South Glouc is even less car friendly than Bristol, which is frankly remarkable!

I just don't get this, how does making everyone do 40mph achieve anything? What is the point?? The buses will be quicker - how?? Am I missing something here or are they all f'in nutcases????

[F1 ASBO]

CoolHands said:

40 on a motorway? Great idea

I'm assuming that is sarcasm? That's my old school! Not bulldozed it yet then?
I think the demographic make up of the group in the picture kind says a lot don't you???

[F1 ASBO]

LordGrover said:

We signed the last one and feck all's happened since - click.

And it wont make a jot of diffrence this time either, it's all about the Benjamins! ($$$) It would take a very brave person indeed to reverse the situation now all those thousands (or was it millions?) have been spent on signage, street furniture and road paint! What's more that dhead in the red trousers knew that when he did it, this is his lasting legacy - cheers then mate

[GlenMH]

F1 ASBO said:

What's more that dhead in the red trousers knew that when he did it, this is his lasting legacy

Hardly surprising since he was a green in disguise. He admitted that he would never have got in if he hadn't stood as an independent....

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F1 ASBO said:

GlenMH said:

And it gets worse: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-37404...

With permanent SPECs too. South Glouc is even less car friendly than Bristol, which is frankly remarkable!

I just don't get this, how does making everyone do 40mph achieve anything? What is the point?? The buses will be quicker - how?? Am I missing something here or are they all f'in nutcases????

I think they're trying to fk the city up. Certainly a company I work with, even though they try and force their own employees to use public transport, has abandoned Bristol as their home outside London because no one can get there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Bristol#P...

[grumbledoak]

CoolHands said:

Well, that's one way to get a family portrait done cheap!


Nothing will change. Except Bristol's town centre will go even further down the shutter.

[irocfan]

Spx said:

Grow up!
When you have kids you'll want the limits back to 20mph.

grow up yourself - try teaching your spawn that a road isn't a place to play

[rs1952]

hornetrider said:

GlenMH said:

And it gets worse: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-37404...

With permanent SPECs too. South Glouc is even less car friendly than Bristol, which is frankly remarkable!

Jesus titty fking christ. They've all lost their frickin minds.

I'm not sure about the accuracy of the story on the BBC link. Here is the original Highways Agency notice:

http://www.public-notices.co.uk/attachments/2016-0...

I hardly ever drive into Bristol these days as it is far easier for me to go by train, so I don't know what the position "on the ground" on the M32 is at the moment.

[m444ttb]

My in laws live on a road called St Peter's Rise in south Bristol. People use to do 40+ when it was a 30. Would you like to guess what they do now it's a 20? Yep, exactly the same.

[ajuk]

BristolRich said:

The other thing that hasn't been picked up on here is the reduction in speed limit also reduces the maintenance obligation placed on the local council and agencies and hence there is a financial incentive for them to reduce the speed limits where at all possible. This was certainly highlighted as a benefit in some of South Gloucestershire recent speed limit reductions...

IIRC the Highways Act basically says something along the lines of (my interpretation) "responsibility is placed upon the authority to repair footpaths, bridalways, roads which are neither trunk roads and/or classified roads and which are restricted to 30mph, restricted to 40mph and so on..."

As long as the road designated 20mph, it is considered "safe for its designation" then the obligation (read - urgency) to repair and maintain it is somewhat significantly reduced, ergo why some of the main routes within the confines of city are in such a poor state.

The report isn't online, but when it came to light that a 40 limit road in Yate had significantly slower speeds than quite a few other 30 limit roads, in a statement SGC openly admired that dropping the speed limit did little to change the speed most people drive at. Most 30 limit roads had average speeds under the limit and all 40 limit roads had average speeds under the limit. The fastest average speed recorded on a 30 limit road was 38mph on Peg Hill, compare that to an average speed of 31 on the 40 limit Heron Way and that's a 17mph discrepancy between limits and average speeds on the 2 roads.

[ajuk]

F1 ASBO said:

I'm assuming that is sarcasm? That's my old school! Not bulldozed it yet then?
I think the demographic make up of the group in the picture kind says a lot don't you???

Those would be the people who chose to live on a 40 limit dual carriageway then moaned about it.