20mph St Albans

[RECr]

It looks like the City Council have brought a motion to Herts County Council in favour of "wide area" (so I presume blanket) 20mph speed limits, following a petition from Twenty's Plenty. It will be interesting to see where this goes. I am sure that if we are consulted on this, the City Council will implement what they want regardless. However I suppose it may come to nothing considering that the Herts CC Speed Management Strategy pretty much won't consider reducing speed limits to 20mph unless average speeds are already below 25mph.

It's nice that the City Council are skint enough to now start charging for collecting garden waste, but have enough money to potentially implement these measures.

Edited by RECr on Thursday 25th March 21:01

[RECr]

Certainly you'd be hard pushed to do more than 20mph in the central bits, but there are plenty of 30mph and 40mph through routes. On these, it's quite possible to do the speed limit outside of peak times.

[RECr]

Spindoctor said:

Centre of St Albans is a horrible place to drive anyway. On places like St Peter’s St you’re lucky to hit walking speeds so a 20mph limit is almost irrelevant (as are the Lib Dems). In the rest of the city a 20 limit would be completely daft and not observed without spending taxpayers’ money on enforcement cameras.

Well exactly. If the council really are serious about making the roads safer and more pleasant for pedestrians, how about a proper lit footpath alongside Cottonmill Lane where it passes through the golf course?