What's the speed limit past your house, and is it a problem?

What's the speed limit past your house, and is it a problem?

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Blakewater

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4,303 posts

156 months

Sunday 19th March 2017
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According to the 20's Plenty For Us website, 80% of the public and 75% of drivers support 20mph limits.

http://www.20splentyforus.org.uk/rationale_for_20_...

According to a Hammersmith and Fulham Council survey it's 71% of people in their borough.

https://www.lbhf.gov.uk/articles/news/2015/11/stag...

Of course, these figures are only a percentage of the people who've bothered to take part in the survey, which introduces a certain amount of bias as people may have been keen to sway the figures in their favour by completing the surveys and others may have been too cynical to think bothering to complete the survey would make any difference to the council's actions.

We all know speed limit reductions can come about as a result of a few people starting petitions and pressuring local authorities, groups that may be vocal even though they may not represent the majority of people affected by what they're concerned about. An increasing number of homes are within 20mph limits and zones.

This has led me to ask the question. What's the speed limit past your house and do you think it's a problem to you and your neighbours?

Is it too high? Too low? Would you like to see it changed and, if so, increased or decreased?


spookly

4,011 posts

94 months

Sunday 19th March 2017
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Limit is 30. Rarely see anyone doing anything near 30, as the road is a cul de sac about 80m long.

FlabbyMidgets

477 posts

86 months

Sunday 19th March 2017
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30 apparently. Mines a suburb street filled with semi detached, on road parking, only enough space for one car driving. Everyone on the street is sensible and drives around 10 mph, lots of children and they can appreciate the need for caution. New resident, 5 plus kids and very council, seems to think he is Colin Mccrae reincarnated and flies down in his Meriva, much to the love of everyone else.
Rant over, sorry

Heartworm

1,922 posts

160 months

Sunday 19th March 2017
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Council has asked the builders of our estate to remove the pavement and has had them replaced with grass, the theory being that people walking on the road will act as traffic calming :@ So people pushing buggies/wheelchairs are having to use the road, terrible idea.

Pints

18,444 posts

193 months

Sunday 19th March 2017
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Private road in a cul de sac, so no limit of which to speak but closest road is a 30. You've no hope of doing that though, given the combination of parked cars and road layout.

mac96

3,715 posts

142 months

Sunday 19th March 2017
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It's 20mph. Used to be 30mph, but as the road is narrow only a few idiots ever drove much above 20mph over the speedhumps, and they still do. So the speed limit reduction was pointless.

As regards the survey it clearly asked the question designed to get the desired response. I suspect if you asked 2 questions, most people would say that (1) they want a 20mph limit outside their house, and (2) they do not want 20mph limits anywhere else. And that is just a bit tricky to base a policy on!


MoelyCrio

2,457 posts

181 months

Sunday 19th March 2017
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NSL welsh unclassified road. Sheep are the traffic calming.

Rat_Fink_67

2,309 posts

205 months

Sunday 19th March 2017
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My street has a 30 limit, but as it is blessed with a road surface that wouldn't look out of place after a bombing raid in Damascus, speed is rarely an issue. A bigger problem is trying to get to the bottom with all 4 springs intact.

kiethton

13,883 posts

179 months

Sunday 19th March 2017
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Yeah closest is 30mph

We're in Bromley borough but about 1/4 mile away is lewisham borough which has recently bought in 20mph zones.

Everybody ignores them, everybody that obeys them is overtaken and often in questionable places! Totally pointless and poorly thought out IMO

Willy Nilly

12,511 posts

166 months

Sunday 19th March 2017
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30 limit. Depends on the time of day, but I say most exceed it a little, early in the morning I'd say that there are plenty doing 50+ and it bothers me not in the slightest.

GSalt

298 posts

88 months

Sunday 19th March 2017
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30mph, but I wouldn't object if it was reduced to 10mph with chicane obstacles - quiet residential street, despite Access Only it's still used as a rat run to avoid the traffic lights on the main road at certain times of the day.

IanH755

1,849 posts

119 months

Sunday 19th March 2017
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I live on one of Kent's very narrow (1 car at a time) NSL roads with very limited visibility of oncoming traffic (in either direction) and 5 houses which turn out onto it. At absolute best it's 30mph just to be safe but no-one ever does this, everyone does 50+ "because it's a NSL mate whats your problem, I'm not speeding?".

Even worse is that the local farmer killed a young lad a few years ago in a head-on collision in fog so the roads got history.

Muddle238

3,871 posts

112 months

Sunday 19th March 2017
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Private access road to a few houses, 15mph signs at the bottom, most stick to 15. Those who regulary reach 25/30mph are either delivery vans or taxis. Or the house across the way with a bunch of leased Audis on the drive.

Leads on to a B-road, 60 limit. Which is fine, although half a mile away is a busy, poorly-sighted crossroads which has seen it's fair share of accidents, several fatal over the last 20 years and is locally well-known as a high-risk junction. Yet, despite how badly sighted it is and the number of collisions over the years, it's still 60 through the junction. I will always drop down to at least 40, headlights on (as tree coverage from the south) and continue to cover the brake until I'm through the junction if there are vehicles waiting to pull out. Essentially it's in the middle of a double S-bend, over a crest, with traffic on the main road emerging from trees (northbound traffic, sun behind them, in contrasting darkness through the trees) and with a brick wall on one corner meaning traffic really must be up again the stop line to have any sort of view. It's just about the worst implementation of a crossroad I can think of. Yet it's still 60...

I'm not in favour of dropping speed limits, however this crossroad is one junction that I'd seriously like to see dropped to at least 40, just for quarter of a mile or so through the junction.

Nickbrapp

5,277 posts

129 months

Sunday 19th March 2017
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5mph, gated community

so called

9,074 posts

208 months

Sunday 19th March 2017
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Its 40 by us and has been the main road through our village from the neighbouring town.
The just built a bypass with the promise that our road will reduce to 30 ut they seem to have forgotten.
problem now is there are two routes to the bypass now, one past us and the second on the new road so its become a kind of race/challenge for some as to which is the fastest route.

Complaints letter half written.

skip_1

3,459 posts

189 months

Sunday 19th March 2017
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30mph, mix of semi and detached houses on a hill. Many young families. Most stick to near the speed limit, especially where cars are parked on road. From ~7pm though the ocassional idiots come out doing well above that even where the road is unsighted.

valiant

10,068 posts

159 months

Sunday 19th March 2017
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Nickbrapp said:
5mph, gated community


Being in jail doesn't count.

smile

cheddar

4,637 posts

173 months

Sunday 19th March 2017
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35 but 200 metres from NSL so most do 60, I don't care, in fact I love it when they boot it and do 100

IroningMan

10,154 posts

245 months

Sunday 19th March 2017
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40. Single-track lane with grass growing through the tarmac in the middle. Traffic is limited, but was slower when the lane was NSL - now a minority assume that 40 must be safe, which it really isn't.

TooMany2cvs

29,008 posts

125 months

Sunday 19th March 2017
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NSL. If anybody tried it, they almost certainly wouldn't actually reach us. In they unlikely event they did, they wouldn't get very much further - and most of that would be airborne. If they were going right-to-left past the gate, they'd probably hit the trees fairly high off the ground. If they were going the other way, they might clear the wall before the pond.