Hi all,
I write this post after seeing something pretty stupid. I was taking a friend home after finishing work. It was raining and dark. After turning into a residential street (his street)I saw a sign that informs you that you are leaving a 20 and now entering a 30. I had been going no more than 30 all the way so went back to see the 20mph sign I missed. I saw the sign the second time around 2 miles back. It was a 20 zone for 2 miles. They can't really expect people to abide by it can they? ANyway - the question is, does anyone know of any case whereby someone has been caught speeding in a 20mph zone? Just curious
Cheers
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"Give Way"? Wait....I know this one...give me a minute
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There will be little if any enforcement of these zones but I guess the way it works is that in a 20mph zone most people will only drive at 30mph (or thereabouts) whereas in a 30mph zone the average speed will be nearer 40.
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At the end of my road I have a large "20" max speed sign, with a smaller "20" but crossed through beneath it. So it looks like you are leaving a 20 zone, but now entering a 20 zone. I did query this with the local council and they said something about having different 20mph zones. Weird.
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You might find this is showing a difference between an advisory 20mph zone (e.g. signs with 20 in a green circle) and a mandatory 20mph zone (20 in a red circle) - I assume you were leaving a mandatory and entering an advisory.
Many areas around where I live have the advisory 20, hoping this might keep speeds down to around 35.....
Very few have the compulsory 20, as I believe the legislation to create these zones is much more time-consuming. They'd never be enforced anyway.
You can't be prosecuted for exceeding 20 in an advisory zone.
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Nope, the 20 zone in question is all signed with red circle mandatory signs. Why have two different types of mandatory 20 zone? Oh well, that's life.
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They gotta find something to spend all that Council Tax on...
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From where I live (or rather my car lives), turn right; turn right again. Sign indicating departure from 20 zone. Turn right, turn right (back where car lives), right, right again. Sign indicating departure from 20 zone. Right right (back where car lives) etc.
Alice went mad with a more simple conundrum than this.
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Does this help:
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What i find silly in my area is that there is a main road covered in speed bumps and has a 20mph limit which runs alongside a densely populated housing estate with a 30mph limit and no bumps. The 20 and bumps admittedly does reduce average speed to around 30, which i guess is the point, but then traffic goes off into the housing estate and speeds up!
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That's the problem with most humps - they just shift the speeding elsewhere.
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