Bizarre ruling

[Dr Jekyll]

http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/marlow/13334507.Lo...outrageous__school_speed_limit_dropped_due_tolack_of_funding_/

A council has decided not to lower a speed limit from NSL. The particular spot on the road into Henley on Thames from Marlow which is causing the controversy is one where nobody in their right mind would do much more than 40 anyway so the limit is irrelevant. But there are plenty of places on the same road where 60 is perfectly feasible so you'd think the council would be itching to lower the limit to 50 along the entire stretch.

The reason given for not lowering the limit earlier was funding, strange since budget is usually no object when councils want to cut limits. They almost seem to see replacing NSL signs with 50s as a good way of disposing of surplus cash. Is it simply that so few people will exceed 40 that they won't issue enough tickets?

What exactly is the councils agenda here?

[Dr Jekyll]

Dammit said:

I seem to recall hearing something about this "austerity" thing recently, not sure whether you follow the news at all but I'm sure you might find something about it there?

Even in 2011 Oxfordshire found the money to put 50 signs on almost every former NSL road in the county, so I doubt that's the problem.

[Dr Jekyll]

Dammit said:

Dr Jekyll said:

Even in 2011 Oxfordshire found the money to put 50 signs on almost every former NSL road in the county, so I doubt that's the problem.

How is that relevant?

If councils (Warwickshire did something similar) were prepared to put 50 signs all over everywhere at the height of the financial crisis. It shows that councils aren't prepared to let a little thing like shortage of money get in the way of reducing speed limits. It's normally money no object.

[Dr Jekyll]

Collectingbrass said:

As a reasonably educated guess the local HA will have done a cost benefit analysis which will have shown, probably, that they wont see as much in the way of reduction in Killed & Seriously Injured statistics for the costs of the limit reduction at this location as they would at other locations & that they are better off spending their limited funding elsewhere.

FWIW speed camera revenue does not go directly to the local authority & they can't use it to fund traffic engineering schemes.

So when Warwickshire put almost every previously NSL SC in the county down to 50 that was the result of a series of cost benefit analyses all showing the same result at the same time? Have you ever actually met a councillor?