New Forest - Speed Limits

[michaeljclark]

Whilst on holiday the last weekend in the New Forest, my good lady and I spent a fair amount of time touring around the roads.

However I noticed that once I entered a new speed limit(mainly 40's), the repeaters for said limit were painted on the road - 98% of the time in YELLOW rather than while as used in London, and according to the readout on my speedo (which I have acertained is pretty much bang on) ever .4 to .7 of a mile between

Now I suck to the limits as the Gf was busy looking at all the horses etc - and I didn't one one jumping in front of me and leaving with me with a "modified" motor - but those roads would (I think) be great to drive at just a tad faster

So my question is (really) are the yellow "repeaters" legal and are the distances between them OK?

[Bing o]

I live near the New Forest - yes there are some great well sighted roads - but it's not a race track for frustrated townies to come and spank their cars around at the weekend.

The ponies and horses (and deer, cows, walkers, cyclists etc) tend to end up in the middle of the road, and hitting one of those is not condusive to one's health.

[jezzaaa]

Bing o said:

I live near the New Forest - yes there are some great well sighted roads - but it's not a race track for frustrated townies to come and spank their cars around at the weekend.

The ponies and horses (and deer, cows, walkers, cyclists etc) tend to end up in the middle of the road, and hitting one of those is not condusive to one's health.

Hitting the cyclists is fair game....but as said, leave the ponies etc alone!! ;-)

• runs for cover....*

[Bing o]

ooh, I am dobbing you into cycleplus!!

[GPSHead]

Bing o said:

ooh, I am dobbing you into cycleplus!!

At least the stuff about running down cyclists is only in gest (I think!) Whereas the refusal of people like the C+ trolls to listen to the truth about cameras is ultimately actually killing people (including cyclists).

[Bing o]

I'll stick to the speed limits when they stop running red lights and riding on the pavement the cvnts....

[michaeljclark]

Bing o said:

I live near the New Forest - yes there are some great well sighted roads - but it's not a race track for frustrated townies to come and spank their cars around at the weekend.

The ponies and horses (and deer, cows, walkers, cyclists etc) tend to end up in the middle of the road, and hitting one of those is not condusive to one's health.

Believe me I'm no wanna be racer, as I said I have no desire to hit anything that may cause damage to the motor (or the person/animal etc etc). I was acutally staying in Burley and met the two village donkeys (who just wonder about), when I went round a tight corner - plus the Mrs was busy looking at the nature so I spend most of my time at about 30 (and letting those past who wanted to go faster)

I was just interested in the type and spacing of the repeaters used

Mike

[jezzaaa]

Bing o said:

I live near the New Forest - yes there are some great well sighted roads - but it's not a race track for frustrated townies to come and spank their cars around at the weekend.

The ponies and horses (and deer, cows, walkers, cyclists etc) tend to end up in the middle of the road, and hitting one of those is not condusive to one's health.

Getting back to the topic, I used to live in Brockenhurst in the New Forest and was there when I took my test. Before I'd become a bit experienced I had a very near miss one night where a horse wandered out in front of the car from under a bridge. No idea to this day how the hell I missed it. And you have to realise that hitting a horse head on at 60mph will probably also kill the driver as it comes through the windscreen, not to mention the poor animal. I took it easy around there after that, I can tell you.

J.

Edit to say that clearly, as just pointed out by the OP, none of us have actually answered the question yet!! ;-)

Edited by jezzaaa on Tuesday 26th June 10:19

[SS2.]

It is an enforceable 40mph limit.

The New Forest (and Dartmoor) has received an exemption from displaying the usual 40mph repeaters on environmental grounds.

[michaeljclark]

SS2. said:

It is an enforceable 40mph limit.

The New Forest (and Dartmoor) has received an exemption from displaying the usual 40mph repeaters on environmental grounds.

That solves that then!

Thanks

[crazypb]

I have spent a lot of time on Dartmoor. What a lot of people who only visit for a day or so don't realise is that a car driving at speed will startle an animal and then they do remarkably unpredictable things, like 'bolt'. When an animal bolts, it simply takes off in whatever direction it's facing and that will most likely be right across your bit of road.
I have learned from personal experience how much damage a deer does to a car,.. trust me,.. stick to those limits cos finding out the 'hard' way is no fun. It's also very expensive because if you hit a wild animal, your insurance calls that an 'act of God' and you wont get a penny for your write-off or the recovery fees!
The markings are yellow to show up in poor visibility and though a film of horse/cow/deer/rabbit/sheep-shyte which blots out white markings in the rain! It's also very hard to keep it on a bend with a layer of that stuff,..