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

[Don1]

Honestly, I don't remember a time I could drive at over 20mph in St Albans....

[andrew]

Don1 said:

Honestly, I don't remember a time I could drive at over 20mph in St Albans....

me neither
but i'm sure as hell going to antagonise these bds and give it a go now

[spikeyhead]

andrew said:

Don1 said:

Honestly, I don't remember a time I could drive at over 20mph in St Albans....

me neither
but i'm sure as hell going to antagonise these bds and give it a go now

I've not driven through there in years, and traffic was dire then, hate to think how bad it is now.

[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.

[belleair302]

Liberal borough council hate motorists in St Albans.

[Spindoctor]

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.

[FourWheelDrift]

20mph, so that's just 1st gear high revs, lots of noise especially if it's an already loud car. Although no one would really do that, with friends, would they?

[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?

[Wonderman]

If the queues don't get you the landmine level pots holes will ruin even your air suspension on the 4x4

[Spindoctor]

Don’t get me going on potholes... It’s not just St Albans, right across Herts (and elsewhere) there seems to be an even greater outbreak than usual after a winter. And no effort to repair them. There are even some major ones on the A1(M) which is seriously dangerous.

Kick start the economy with a proper road repair programme.