Originally Posted by
Tooks
I had occasion to be driving in a bit of North Wales last week, west of Chester to a few places and on up to Anglesey.
It was my first experience of the new blanket 20mph limits away from the A55 etc, and it did feel like it had been implemented clumsily.
At one point, the 20mph limit I was in was going through a small town with a school and plenty of people walking about, and it felt right. The town ended and then it was a long straight road for a couple of miles, no junctions or anything, no people and it was still 20mph. The cars behind all overtook me, and can’t say I blamed them.
Other places it was very confusing, with 40 painted on the road next to new 20mph signs that had been sprayed over with black paint, presumably by some disgruntled locals.
It’s a good idea in principle, just needed more planning, but that’s just my view. Back here in Lincs, the small country lanes around the village I live in are all 60mph outside the immediate centre, I do feel very vulnerable walking, cycling or taking the horse out as generally traffic feels like it’s going far too fast for the types of road they are. Some people would undoubtedly still ignore whatever speed limit was displayed, but anything that generally slowed folks down a bit would get my vote.