Custom24 wrote:@ROG - can you expand on "great idea"? Do you think a 20 limit is appropriate? It is on all the minor roads in Oxford. Only the major radial routes out of the city retain their 30 status.
Custom24 wrote:He too said he would like the 20 limit where he lives, which makes me wonder if people want just other people to stick to 20 while driving on their road....
MGF wrote:As for 20 limits I find myself driving at around this speed or even less in many residential streets. The biggest factor being parked cars on both sides of the road. Of course there are other roads where 20 plus speeds are fine but if the limit is 'self-enforcing' then there doesn't seem to be too much to worry about.
MGF wrote:....blanket limits undermine the case for varying one's speed according to the conditions. 30 mph is, in my view a perfectly reAsonable blanket maximum in urban areas with 40s and 20s where appropriate.
jont wrote:MGF wrote:As for 20 limits I find myself driving at around this speed or even less in many residential streets. The biggest factor being parked cars on both sides of the road. Of course there are other roads where 20 plus speeds are fine but if the limit is 'self-enforcing' then there doesn't seem to be too much to worry about.
If the correct speed for the hazard was self-enforcing, we wouldn't need 20 limits to be brought in.
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