St Marys Walk / Church Lane.

sambaDTR

sambaDTR

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Warning, new speed limit. One of our friends got fined doing 24 mph in the new 20 mph zone. Suppose they have to pay for the new road resurfacing work somehow!
 
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Well if there isn’t signs to say it is 20mph speed limit, one of your friends can appeal. 👍🏻👍🏻
 
sambaDTR said:
Warning, new speed limit. One of our friends got fined doing 24 mph in the new 20 mph zone. Suppose they have to pay for the new road resurfacing work somehow!
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Its been 20mph for years and is clearly sign posted as such. Same as every other road on the local estate.

I haven't been round recently but I presume as well as the (much needed) road resurfacing the council have finally installed the traffic calming measures at the junction of St Marys/Church Lane that they decided to install after (correctly) changing their mind on closing the road completely at that point and hence the speed cameras are only there temporarily, which is a shame.

Hopefully they will transfer the speed cameras to all the other roads locally that have to put up with people driving at speeds way in excessive of 20mph and driving dangerously along the pavement just so they can short cut the traffic lights at the junction of Green Lane/Acklam Road.
 
I'm not sure that it's already been mentioned that Dixons Bank from around the Southern Cross to the top has a new 30mph limit in place of 40mph. the downhill stretch is going to be a new tax haven if they park a camera van there.
 
RavsDad said:
I'm not sure that it's already been mentioned that Dixons Bank from around the Southern Cross to the top has a new 30mph limit in place of 40mph. the downhill stretch is going to be a new tax haven if they park a camera van there.
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People should just drive below the speed limit.
 
I noticed the change a year or so back when I came home. feels like its too slow for that road but sensible if they are trying to reduce through traffic.
 
Cambsred said:
I noticed the change a year or so back when I came home. feels like its too slow for that road but sensible if they are trying to reduce through traffic.
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But they're not - all they are doing is forcing the traffic through the other estate roads which are less able to cope with it.
 
I agree with 20 zones close to schools play areas etc but they should be 20 zones during the hours the schools operate imo
 
Whether you are doing 20 or 40 you are still going to be stopping at a set of traffic lights 200 metres away, so no benefit to driving faster.
 
They’ve been setting cameras up on a lot of the 20mph road recently. Know of people being caught doing 24 on Trimdon Avenue and The Avenue.
 
Davey_C said:
I agree with 20 zones close to schools play areas etc but they should be 20 zones during the hours the schools operate imo
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Correct, I did a speed awareness course a few years ago. Basically all the roads in that area are 20 mph speed limit.
Sometimes the police used a mobile speed camera parked on the pavements at the end of the cut through to Cochranes Club. If you were approaching from St.Marys Walk you wouldn't see it until too late. The sneaky bounders 🙄
It's a great cash cow for the authorities, but at the end of the day you have to follow the limits. Apart from joy riders of course 🤪
 
40FootRoad said:
Correct, I did a speed awareness course a few years ago. Basically all the roads in that area are 20 mph speed limit.
Sometimes the police used a mobile speed camera parked on the pavements at the end of the cut through to Cochranes Club. If you were approaching from St.Marys Walk you wouldn't see it until too late. The sneaky bounders 🙄
It's a great cash cow for the authorities, but at the end of the day you have to follow the limits. Apart from joy riders of course 🤪
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I wondered where the camera was!
 
Cambsred said:
Aren't they all 20mph roads too though? So no benefit bypassing through more narrow roads?
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The other roads don't have the traffic calming restrictions.

Believe me I have to live with it - since the council trialled closing St Marys/Church Lane all the traffic that normally went down that road just started using alternative roads and have never gone back. I have to put up with cars easily doing 40mph along a 13'6" wide road quite often along the pavement the length of 3 houses.
 
DCI_Gene_Hunt said:
The other roads don't have the traffic calming restrictions.

Believe me I have to live with it - since the council trialled closing St Marys/Church Lane all the traffic that normally went down that road just started using alternative roads and have never gone back. I have to put up with cars easily doing 40mph along a 13'6" wide road quite often along the pavement the length of 3 houses.
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I thought it was naive to shut that part as it would push people onto the other roads. Didnt think they would keep using them as a bypass.

Can understand the frustrations with that
 
With the increase in petrol prices, will the kids have to start walking to school again like we did in the 60s / 70s? Should stop a lot of traffic cutting through past Acklam Library etc.
 
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