20MPH limits

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These seem to be springing up on around here :(

2 major arteries within the city already have 20mph zones, and a 3rd one is being set up as I type this.

What is it with some useless jobsworths thinking they should reduce speedlimits from 30 to 20?
 
Welcome to the club, they have been placing 30kph zones for about 5-10 years now here, ridiculous at some places and justifying placing speed bumps. They do it pretty much everywhere with homes directly on the road or anywhere where a few inhabitants moan about speed. At a few places the speed is justified but at others the limit is stupid.
 
The roads were perfectly fine at 30mph, they have adequate crossings and so on.
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All look perfectly safe for 30MPH, and have historically been 30mph .. what has changed over the last 10 years to make 30MPH unsafe?
 
some speed bumps are placed around areas twocers drive my parents lives up a road that is a dead end and there are speed bumps on it because of known car theifs that live near them lol
im sure they take extra care when rallying someone elses car over them though
 
Thread revival time ..

A 20mph limit is proposed for almost all residential roads and some sections of more major roads in Oxford.
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makes almost every residential street within the city boundaries an enforceable 20mph zone.
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I know we aren't allowed to swear, but ... ******* *******
 
got to come to chesterfield, speedbumps everywhere! when i first got my car it was lowered and i couldn't go over the red speed humps what are about 37ft high

so had to put original springs back on :(

its ridicules having speedhumps what are pure mountains
 
I'm not actually bothered about residential roads being reduced to 20mph.

I can certainly see deaths falling as of result, drivers fault or not.

Just stick it in 3rd and cruise :cool: :p

It's not like in busy area's that you can go much faster anyway, make a little more time for your journey if needed.


A roads being reduced to 50 however is a different matter for me :<
 
It won't work tbh, my street is cars both sides and one lane down the middle and you still get idiots tearing up and down doing stupid speeds, we have speed bumps, big slow signs painted on the road, kids everywhere and its cat city, some re-education is needed rather than speed restrictions.
 
rypt said:
These seem to be springing up on around here :(

2 major arteries within the city already have 20mph zones, and a 3rd one is being set up as I type this.

What is it with some useless jobsworths thinking they should reduce speedlimits from 30 to 20?
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It will affect me as I live near Oxford. :(

This is bull poo....those roads were slow enough at 30mph...literally distractingly slow and you can't even get up to 30mph on most of them. :(
 
rypt said:
what has changed over the last 10 years to make 30MPH unsafe?
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Well cars have been developed to be faster, but stopping distances from 30mph are actually worse now than they were 10 years ago. So it follows that over the next 10 years, cars will get faster and speed limits will need to come down again.

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EDIT- ^^^^Sarcasm
 
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I live just outside Oxford and have to drive through and around it regularly

So all I have to say is

ARGH! ****
 
Oh i'm hating this, this is going make tailgating a lot worse for people who don't want to stick to the limit.

It makes me really nervous sticking to the limit with a car dying to go faster tailgating. :(
 
It's because people don't drive at 30mph in 30 limits. One or two might, but most want to drive at 45. Or in the case round here between 45-50 on the more open sections. Blame them, they've spoiled it for the rest of us.

Plus it makes residential areas quieter because there's less tyre noise.
 
How about this for inexplicable reduction in speed limits then? On the Tay Road Bridge it has been a 50mph speed limit for as long as I can remember, it's a dual lane bridge on both sides and for the past 5+ years there has been one lane closed off in the outbound direction (this side had a nominal 30mph limit which you could understand as it was down to one lane) but since the roadworks were removed from that side there are now signs up stating that both sides are 30mph - so they've finally made it dual laned in both directions again yet reduced the speed limit! Words really failed me the first time I noticed that or at least words that aren't all 4 letters long - still no one pays any attention to it from what I've seen so far.
 
Most people won't be driving 20 just like most people don't currently drive 30. The actual effect of this will probably just be to make people reduce there speed to the old limit, which is probably a good thing.
 
monkey_boy said:
Well cars have been developed to be faster, but stopping distances from 30mph are actually worse now than they were 10 years ago. So it follows that over the next 10 years, cars will get faster and speed limits will need to come down again.

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This is logical rubbish.

A fast car at 30mph is the same speed as slow car at 30mph. Brakes today are far superior to brakes from decades ago.

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