I'd rather a 20mph limit than speed humps.

30 mph is fine if every one uses 30 as their upper limit going slower when necessary. The problem is the law isn't enforced enough. Whatever limits and restrictions you apply there are those amongst us who flout them.

I think that in the past, more people obeyed the signed limits when they were reasonable, as well as when Plod actually had a proper traffic division and not just relied on speed cameras/camera vans outside of the motorways.

The problem is that those who still obey the law with the lower limits were never the problem drivers in the first place.

Think I have posted about this before on here but our road is a 30 mph limit and has been since the 60's when I was a kid and used the road on my way to mates, basically its been a 30 limit for 60 years at least.

Over the past few years there have been a number of serious to very serious accidents non of which (amazingly) has resulted in a fatality. A telegraph post was snapped like a matchstick when a car rolled into it and wrote another car off as it continued on its way. A young kid was hit by a car that was well over the limit and was unconscious for several weeks, he survived with no lasting effects. A speeding car hit a parked car outside the hairdressing salon and luckily no injuries, I could go on. 2 years ago the residents association together with the county and district councillors called a public meeting to discuss the issues.

The meeting was a shambles. The county councillor was unavailable so he sent a colleague who knew nothing about the issues. District highways were there but county highways sent apologies. The Police did not even bother to send apologies. Some local residents insisted on hijacking the meeting to discuss issues that were nothing to do with the agenda but eventually it was agreed that a speed survey would be carried out and the results sent to local residents and then another meeting would be called to discuss.

So what has happened. The speed survey was carried out (right outside our house and the noise of cars going over the sensors in the road was most annoying during the night for several weeks - not an issue if it helped sort things). We never heard a thing about the results or another meeting but earlier this year (18 months after the meeting) the council put up one of those displays that shows your speed and asks you to slow down.

They also installed some tactile paving and lowered kerbs at the bottom of the road for disabled persons.

Has it worked, truth be told no. It only works for those going down the hill and people speed both ways, in actual fact now and before the survey more people speed going up the hill than down it (2 of the accidents mentioned earlier were vehicles going uphill).

The tactile paving was put in such a place as to make it potentially lethal since you cannot see in one direction for the parked cars at nearby houses (they are parked too close to the 90 degree bend but no double yellows). Its been reported in the local press but nothing has been done. We await a serious issue.

And who are the biggest culprits for speeding going up the road, a family who live just past the speed display who drive a range Rover SVR and an Audi RS3. But to be fair to them they drive at the same ridiculous speeds both ways probably thinking how brilliant they are.

Yes, policemen who stopped you used their discretion as to wether or not you got a ticket. It was human contact and a telling off was much more effective than these impersonal cameras who snap you and that's that.