Halbeath Road - Dunfermline

[ALY77]

Has the road there ever been a 40 limit?

I was driving up there past the car garage heading for the M90 in the early hours of Sunday morning, thinking it was a 40 but its not an area I know at all and one I'm never in. One radar gun reading 43 from behind a stopped car later and I've got points and a fine.

Given the road conditions, layout and lack of proximity from any pedestrian areas at that time of night, ie two mins from the motorway and well away from the pubs, it struck me as a bit of a revenue generating exercise as much as a road safety one.

[tvrgit]

Do you mean the Arnold Clark garage at the end of Linburn Road?

I have a vague recollection that the 40 limit did once used to extend down to near Linburn Road, but that was many many years ago IIRC. Certainly not a case for "Oh I didn't know it had just changed officer".

[thomson]

My mum got done there, the limit changes just after the Asda circle heading into Dunfermline.

[5 In a Row]

Doesn't it change at the roundabout at the top of the hill just after the row of car garages?

I can't believe that it would be a 40 coming past the front of the college.

[p17sut]

Yeah the short bit of duel carriageway towards asda is a 30, police often sit in the layby there and catch folk out easily.

[ALY77]

Checked google maps. I've came down Whitefield Road, went left then been waved in about three quarters the way along the section before the first roundabout.
Looked like a 40 to me and even when I was waved in I thought, "oh, police on a main road out of town, must be checking for drunk drivers on a Saturday night, thats a good idea, nothing to worry about"

I'm not looking for a "didn't realise it had changed" excuse, it was more out of interest to myself, I'm Edinburgh based and rarely out the place with work or socially from one month to the next so don't know the fife roads much at all.

[tvrgit]

ALY77 said:

Checked google maps. I've came down Whitefield Road, went left then been waved in about three quarters the way along the section before the first roundabout.
Looked like a 40 to me and even when I was waved in I thought, "oh, police on a main road out of town, must be checking for drunk drivers on a Saturday night, thats a good idea, nothing to worry about"

I'm not looking for a "didn't realise it had changed" excuse, it was more out of interest to myself, I'm Edinburgh based and rarely out the place with work or socially from one month to the next so don't know the fife roads much at all.

The whole of Whitefield Road is 40, as far as I can remember, past the QM hospital and rail station, then changes to a 30 between the rail bridge and Halbeath Road. Then Halbeath Road is 30 up to the second roundabout (not the Asda one, the one into the retail park) and from there it's 40 up the hill to the motorway junction. The first bit of Halbeath Road, up to Linburn Hospital, is single carriageway with houses on both sides, plus the hospital. It looks more like a 30 road than the next bit, between Asda and the retail park, along the front of the college.

Used to be 40 along to Linburn Hospital, then 30 down Halbeath Road into Dunfermline, and before that, IIRC, the 40 went even further down the hill, to Linburn Road, but that was a looooong time ago.