WARNING - Boring topic ! Local council road speeds
Discussion
phil4 said:
I don't believe you've said why you think 30mph is more appropriate?
There are 7 houses, 4 drives and the visibility splays (for oncoming traffic) is awful from all of them. Plus only 1 pavement exactly 35'' wide. I have been clipped by a bus wing mirror and the road is too dangerous to walk along despite said pavement. The danger is the inevitability of hitting a cyclist or car as one emerges from a drive onto the road. It's a conservation area so I have been told by the council I can't put a mirror up and in fact they take down any that get tried. donkmeister said:
I sympathise when you have tts doing 100mph+ past your front door, but from the OP it sounds like you bought a house on a 60mph THEN went about campaigning for a lower limit.
If that is the case; should road users be held up (even just -10mph for 600 metres) to increase your enjoyment of your property?
I'm seeing this attitude already on a new development near me where new residents are getting upset about speeders on the 40mph relief road, pushing for speed bumps, which would move traffic onto my (30mph old residential) road to avoid it. I woz 'ere first!
The 60 limit proceeded us buying by years. It was 40 when we bought it. It's not for the enjoyment of my property (which to use your I woz 'ere first approach was built 40 years before the invention of the internal combustion engine) It is genuinely dangerous. I can't quantify that as a word but I can qualify it. 3 times in 3 years I have nudged out in a sensible fashion and cyclysts have swerved in to oncoming on other carriageway, been hit by a bus wing mirror and had several cars going at over the limit slam on the breaks and dramatically stop 5 ft from my drivers door. It has all the ingredients of an accident to come but it seems the formula on setting limits has quite a lot of room for judgement in ti. Judgement that is set at the moment agains lowering unless 3 people get killed in one spot.If that is the case; should road users be held up (even just -10mph for 600 metres) to increase your enjoyment of your property?
I'm seeing this attitude already on a new development near me where new residents are getting upset about speeders on the 40mph relief road, pushing for speed bumps, which would move traffic onto my (30mph old residential) road to avoid it. I woz 'ere first!
What happened to a pro-active approach ?
Cyrus1971 said:
The 60 limit proceeded us buying by years. It was 40 when we bought it. It's not for the enjoyment of my property (which to use your I woz 'ere first approach was built 40 years before the invention of the internal combustion engine) It is genuinely dangerous. I can't quantify that as a word but I can qualify it. 3 times in 3 years I have nudged out in a sensible fashion and cyclysts have swerved in to oncoming on other carriageway, been hit by a bus wing mirror and had several cars going at over the limit slam on the breaks and dramatically stop 5 ft from my drivers door. It has all the ingredients of an accident to come but it seems the formula on setting limits has quite a lot of room for judgement in ti. Judgement that is set at the moment agains lowering unless 3 people get killed in one spot.
What happened to a pro-active approach ?
Change your driveway so you have better visibility?What happened to a pro-active approach ?
Cyrus1971 said:
lyonspride said:
Zero point in a 30 limit, most people do 40 in 30 zones, especially on rural roads.
It'd be a total waste of money.
It's a good point but a fatalistic one. If this were the governing thinking on posting limits surely we would not have any ?It'd be a total waste of money.
I had a similar-ish problem at a old house. Village.....straight road......30mph limit......most vehicles did more than 30mph.
My issue wasn't really with the speed, directly, but more about the noise and vibration of passing traffic. However the faster the speed, the more noise/vibration so lowering the speed would've helped. It would wake me up at night. The road was full of holes, cracks, badly levelled drain covers etc so all made for a very noisy road. The road also had a 7.5t vehicle weight limit but this was often ignored and the big ones were very noisy.
After a few letters, quoting various studies, I got the council highway guy out to listen/feel the problem inside and outside the house. He admitted the noise was pretty bad and noticed the cracks in the render that may have been due to the vibrations. He promptly got the road surface repaired which helped massively. I took that as a win and left it at that as I was expecting them to just say get better windows. Gave up trying to get them to enforce the weight limit and speed limit.
Anyway, maybe try going down the noise nuisance route saying how it's affecting your health (sleep deprivation), enjoyment of property etc. That's if it is noisy inside your house? Oh and get local councillors on board, they can be quite useful for certain things.
My issue wasn't really with the speed, directly, but more about the noise and vibration of passing traffic. However the faster the speed, the more noise/vibration so lowering the speed would've helped. It would wake me up at night. The road was full of holes, cracks, badly levelled drain covers etc so all made for a very noisy road. The road also had a 7.5t vehicle weight limit but this was often ignored and the big ones were very noisy.
After a few letters, quoting various studies, I got the council highway guy out to listen/feel the problem inside and outside the house. He admitted the noise was pretty bad and noticed the cracks in the render that may have been due to the vibrations. He promptly got the road surface repaired which helped massively. I took that as a win and left it at that as I was expecting them to just say get better windows. Gave up trying to get them to enforce the weight limit and speed limit.
Anyway, maybe try going down the noise nuisance route saying how it's affecting your health (sleep deprivation), enjoyment of property etc. That's if it is noisy inside your house? Oh and get local councillors on board, they can be quite useful for certain things.
Cyrus1971 said:
lyonspride said:
Zero point in a 30 limit, most people do 40 in 30 zones, especially on rural roads.
It'd be a total waste of money.
It's a good point but a fatalistic one. If this were the governing thinking on posting limits surely we would not have any ?It'd be a total waste of money.
meatballs said:
Cyrus1971 said:
The 60 limit proceeded us buying by years. It was 40 when we bought it. It's not for the enjoyment of my property (which to use your I woz 'ere first approach was built 40 years before the invention of the internal combustion engine) It is genuinely dangerous. I can't quantify that as a word but I can qualify it. 3 times in 3 years I have nudged out in a sensible fashion and cyclysts have swerved in to oncoming on other carriageway, been hit by a bus wing mirror and had several cars going at over the limit slam on the breaks and dramatically stop 5 ft from my drivers door. It has all the ingredients of an accident to come but it seems the formula on setting limits has quite a lot of room for judgement in ti. Judgement that is set at the moment agains lowering unless 3 people get killed in one spot.
What happened to a pro-active approach ?
Change your driveway so you have better visibility?What happened to a pro-active approach ?
Skellum said:
Good Evening OP.
Perhaps you could provide your postcode so we can see this on streetview, because frankly most of this sounds like bullst.
Err, he's already told us where he lives, in reasonable detail. Many people on PH live in the area and know the road well, and there's very little bullst here. It's narrow, heavily trafficked, and a favourite route for the local cycling clubs. I can well believe that the OP has the kind of issues that he's described and on a regular basis.Perhaps you could provide your postcode so we can see this on streetview, because frankly most of this sounds like bullst.
Why do people think speeding through villages is OK? where I live they did a survey in a local village. It was done during the day, on a Wednesday for 4 hours. 72% of traffic travelling north broke the speed limit and only 86% going south exceeded the limit. If this was happening in your pleasant little cul de sac in suburbia would you be happy about it? Yes I know they bough a house in that position and in the old days there was no limit so they should not be complaining. This is not about restricting the excitement of racing on the roads its about safety. The more people who speed in these places, the more people get upset by it and the more speed restrictions you get.
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