Speeding Motorists in 30 limit - what can be done?

[Thudd]

Our house is in a 30limit on a road which links the village to a couple of others.
It's 30MPH for a looooong way up to the village - there is a speed camera, a flashing SLOW DOWN sign etc on the approach.

The final approach is uphill with a large bank on one side, houses directly onto the road on the other. It's got streetlights, and long dash - short gap road markings.

Just past the house is a black-on-white 30MPH reminder, and the start of some speed bumps.

Problem I have is that the local chavs treat this as some form of hillclimb / time trial. I can lie in bed and hear the Scoobies and Evos PER-TISHing like mad as they cane it to the limiter in as many gears as possible before braking hard for the speed bumps.

Short of dressing in a hi-vis vest and popping out with a hairdryer, what can be done? I don't want more tank traps on the road, I don't want more cameras, and the current setup is clearly not working either.

This is a good area btw and kids cross the road from the sidestreets to head over to the shops on a sidestreet across the road. It's only a matter of time until there's a serious RTA there.

Oh and every winter the corner collects cars on their roofs

[kambites]

Give the police a ring? If people are breaking the limit by a large amount they might come down with a mobile scamera.

[tigger1]

Thudd said:

Oh and every winter the corner collects cars on their roofs

Take the speed bumps out and fit a spike outside the corner to make sure nobody crashes there twice.

[Ultraviolet]

Buy two crappy cars and put one each side of the road to create a low speed chicane?

UV

[Thudd]

Actually, having seen Life On Mars S2 recently, I might weld up a DIY Stinger from a length of chain and some 6" nails

[rude-boy]

Try getting the council to make the limit fit the road.


I find it far easier to obay realistic and sensible 30 and 40's than the sort we tend to have around here were over the space of 3 miles you have a mile long 40 buffer then a 30 and then another mile long 40 buffer for what should really be about 1/2 a mile of 30

[scotty328i]

I thought about the going out there with a hairdryer but you didnt fancy that

other than that give the local plod a call

[Thudd]

It needs to be 30. It's a series of blind corners on a steep hill in a residential area on a bus route!

[mel]

Get out there and race them, humiliate their scoobies and evo's, and kick some serious arse, run them off the road and make them the laughing stock of there pier group as the ones who got their arses kicked by the old man at No 74. Either that or nuke them from orbit

[tigger1]

Thudd said:

It needs to be 30. It's a series of blind corners on a steep hill in a residential area on a bus route!

Why? It's a limit, not a target.

There's MILES of roads in the Lake district that are barel wide enough for two cars where you can't see more than 50 yds ahead, and these were always NSL. Give Darwin a month or two to work, and then see how people behave.

Interestingly, with local problems like this, it's usually residents that are the worst offenders...

[fido]

buy a £100 sh8t-box, and do a well-timed 90degree reverse manoeuvre when Scooby/Evo boy comes screaming round the corner .. skid-marks should be enough to be enough to prove his excessive speed. :disclaimer - i was only kidding, don't actually do this:

[Thudd]

I'm currently enjoying driving up and down the hill at 27MPH and coming to a complete halt before turning into our road, in case there is a parked car or small child around the corner.

[Thudd]

tigger1 said:

Why? It's a limit, not a target.

There's MILES of roads in the Lake district that are barel wide enough for two cars where you can't see more than 50 yds ahead, and these were always NSL. Give Darwin a month or two to work, and then see how people behave.

Interestingly, with local problems like this, it's usually residents that are the worst offenders...

It's the "Still live with my parents" lot buying "pocket supercars" on tick. They all live down the crappy bit at the other end of the village.

And having been there 2 years, it's not improved, and i'm sick of it.

The road is 6" narrower than the bus, too. If he comes the other way I have to pull in to the verge and stop.

[supermono]

Thudd said:

It needs to be 30. It's a series of blind corners on a steep hill in a residential area on a bus route!

Ah-ha, gotcha. Stop the buses.

SM

[smeggy]

Thudd,

Any chance of giving a Google Map link to the area?

[rewc]

rude-boy said:

Try getting the council to make the limit fit the road.
I find it far easier to obay realistic and sensible 30 and 40's than the sort we tend to have around here were over the space of 3 miles you have a mile long 40 buffer then a 30 and then another mile long 40 buffer for what should really be about 1/2 a mile of 30

A few years ago the approaches to villages in Dorset were changed so that there was a least a mile of 40 before coming to the 30. They are now reverting back to how it was before. If you make limits unrealistic then they will not be observed.
In the case of the OP if there were no limits and nobody had a speedo what effect would it have on the majority of drivers speed?

[cptsideways]

Thudd said:

It's 30MPH for a looooong way up to the village

There in lies the problem, is the early 30 limit really necessary? Early extended limits appear to be an ever increasing problem, more & more drivers can't ass'd to heed them as they are obviously not necessary, they then become blaze' about the real bits that do need them. Keep the limits short & sweet at the hazardous bits ONLY.

Just my opinion but I think its a very valid one, currently its extened, lengthen & then join the whole damn lot up with a stupid limit the whole way.

[Thudd]

The 30 limit has a speed camera in the bit where it's not fully built up.
Otherwise it's lined with houses and pretty busy.

I've just looked on Multimap and most of the houses aren't shown as they are <3yrs old.