City gets first 10mph limit
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From BBC News [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/3116984.stm[/url]
City gets first 10mph limit
Drivers in Plymouth are facing the lowest speed limit in the UK - 10mph.
The Department for Transport pilot scheme in the Morice Town area will be monitored and could be introduced elsewhere in the country.
The new speed limit, reduced from 30 mph, covers nine streets in the city's Home Zone area, one of nine established nationally in 1998.
Warning signs mark the entrance to the zone, where kerbs have been removed, and chicanes and planted features introduced.
Plymouth City Council project manager Adrian Trim said: "Home Zones could be seen as turning the clock back 50 years to a time when the space outside our homes was considered to be safer, and was shared equally by all road users - a time when communities were more cohesive and neighbourly."
Mother Liz Welford said the traffic situation there was a "nightmare" before the scheme came into being.
She said: "You had people zooming up and down the streets all hours of the day and night. You could not have let the children outside the front door - it was the garden or nothing."
The streets covered by the 10mph zone are: Charlotte Street, Herbert Street, Balfour Terrace, Keat Street, Boscowan Place, Pentamar Street, Ross Street, Garden Street and Cross Hill.
City gets first 10mph limit
Drivers in Plymouth are facing the lowest speed limit in the UK - 10mph.
The Department for Transport pilot scheme in the Morice Town area will be monitored and could be introduced elsewhere in the country.
The new speed limit, reduced from 30 mph, covers nine streets in the city's Home Zone area, one of nine established nationally in 1998.
Warning signs mark the entrance to the zone, where kerbs have been removed, and chicanes and planted features introduced.
Plymouth City Council project manager Adrian Trim said: "Home Zones could be seen as turning the clock back 50 years to a time when the space outside our homes was considered to be safer, and was shared equally by all road users - a time when communities were more cohesive and neighbourly."
Mother Liz Welford said the traffic situation there was a "nightmare" before the scheme came into being.
She said: "You had people zooming up and down the streets all hours of the day and night. You could not have let the children outside the front door - it was the garden or nothing."
The streets covered by the 10mph zone are: Charlotte Street, Herbert Street, Balfour Terrace, Keat Street, Boscowan Place, Pentamar Street, Ross Street, Garden Street and Cross Hill.
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Just do what they do in Tchermanny when a ridiculous limit is imposed, burble in BOTTOM gear revving like mad...... was done here by the LaxPowerBrigade in the neighbourhood, the 10kph was raised fast back to 30kph when the locals complained...... which is fine for everyone in a local traffic only housing area!!!!
Teppic said:
From BBC News [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/3116984.stm[/url]
City gets first 10mph limit
Drivers in Plymouth are facing the lowest speed limit in the UK - 10mph.
The Department for Transport pilot scheme in the Morice Town area will be monitored and could be introduced elsewhere in the country.
The new speed limit, reduced from 30 mph, covers nine streets in the city's Home Zone area, one of nine established nationally in 1998.
Warning signs mark the entrance to the zone, where kerbs have been removed, and chicanes and planted features introduced.
Plymouth City Council project manager Adrian Trim said: "Home Zones could be seen as turning the clock back 50 years to a time when the space outside our homes was considered to be safer, and was shared equally by all road users - a time when communities were more cohesive and neighbourly."
Mother Liz Welford said the traffic situation there was a "nightmare" before the scheme came into being.
She said: "You had people zooming up and down the streets all hours of the day and night. You could not have let the children outside the front door - it was the garden or nothing."
The streets covered by the 10mph zone are: Charlotte Street, Herbert Street, Balfour Terrace, Keat Street, Boscowan Place, Pentamar Street, Ross Street, Garden Street and Cross Hill.
Doh nearly posted nothing there. There is a home zone in West Ealing. When I walk through there I never see any kids playing in the street, in fact I rarely see anyone in the street. All these idiots thinking they can turn back the clock to a previous golden time which only existed in their imaginations. My parents lived 50 years ago, and they remember the poverty there was then, do we want to go back to that. Funnily enough I don't live in a home zone and still manage to speak to my neighbours.
The 10mph limit thing is simply the modern obsession with measuring everything. Funnily enough I look out for children when driving in residential roads, even when there isn't a 10mph limit.
I just content myself that since they blocked off the streets in the home zone so it couldn't be used as a cut through the traffic congestion on the main road will lengthen the resposne times of the emergency services to the homes of these self righteous bunch of gits.
>> Edited by IanReid on Thursday 18th September 10:42
Further to this, I read this morning in the paper that limits posted, are ADVISORY only!!??.
So you won't get done for speeding just driving without due care and attention!!
How many people have actually tried driving their cars at 10mph? I bet most kids on their bikes on this estate are going quicker than that, but I bet they won't get done for speeding. Good job its not liverpool, cars have had their wheels nicked travelling quicker than 10mph
Oh well nevermind, just some more PC, lentil eating bullsh@t.
So you won't get done for speeding just driving without due care and attention!!
How many people have actually tried driving their cars at 10mph? I bet most kids on their bikes on this estate are going quicker than that, but I bet they won't get done for speeding. Good job its not liverpool, cars have had their wheels nicked travelling quicker than 10mph
Oh well nevermind, just some more PC, lentil eating bullsh@t.
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