Parents' campaign to see speed limit cut on busy school road (From Daily Echo)
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Call to slash speed limit on Braishfield Road, near Romsey
6:00pm Thursday 9th February 2012 in Romsey
Protesters in Braishfield Road who are fighting to get the speed limit reduced.
Parents have launched a campaign to slash the speed limit on a busy Hampshire road.
They are calling on roads chiefs to take action on the route near Romsey.
Campaigners want the current 40mph restriction on Braishfield Road at Woodley reduced to 30mph.
Around 20 people including mums and their children staged a roadside protest at the junction of Woodley Road and School Road.
Protesters waved homemade 30mph signage at motorists to get their message across.
Campaigner Ria Skelton said: “Drivers sped past us. We need something done about the speed limit urgently, or are authorities going to wait until someone is badly injured or killed crossing this road?”
The mum, whose a six-year-old daughter Rosie walks to school in Cupernham, says the road will become even more difficult to cross once the nearby 800-home Abbotswood village is built.
Campaigners are urging people to write to Hampshire’s deputy leader Roy Perry whose division includes Woodley.
He said: “I have been pressing for a long time for a lower speed limit on this road because I am very conscious of the need for children from Woodley and Hunters Crescent to cross that road to get to Cupernham School.”
He added that the county council has plans to install crossing points along the road and lower the existing speed limit.
However, the improvements are linked to the Abbotswood development and probably will not be put in place for a while. Mr Perry said: “I will be urging HCC Highways that those road safety proposals are implemented as soon as possible.”
Comments(8)
HWinWindies
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10:27pm Thu 9 Feb 12
In Bermuda its 22mph for most of the Island, but 15.5 mph in some built up areas.
So safe speeds can be legislated if ther's a will.
My one query with all protests that have children used by parents is the fact that it is disingenuous. Using children in protests such as this appears to be exposing them to the danger against which you are protesting...
If you have a valid protest it will stand up without using children.
I support rigidly enforced speed limits around schools and playgrounds.
Here in BVI we have large speed bumps at either end of a school zone to let you know that you are entering one, and it slows everyone down, and our speed limits are much lower than UK anyway.
IronLady2010
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11:33pm Thu 9 Feb 12
If you add speed humps it takes the mind off the driver as they focus on slowing down for the speed hump and not the kids on the pavement.
We nanny far too much!
IronLady2010
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11:40pm Thu 9 Feb 12
Torchie1
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1:41am Fri 10 Feb 12
HWinWindies wrote:This would be the same BVI that is less than one fifth the area of the New Forest and Bermuda, which is actually one hundred and eighty one little islands equalling less than than half the area of BVI? You could have any speed limit you liked but where could a vehicle break it?
South Australian school zones are 25km/h (15.5 mph).
In Bermuda its 22mph for most of the Island, but 15.5 mph in some built up areas.
So safe speeds can be legislated if ther's a will.
My one query with all protests that have children used by parents is the fact that it is disingenuous. Using children in protests such as this appears to be exposing them to the danger against which you are protesting...
If you have a valid protest it will stand up without using children.
I support rigidly enforced speed limits around schools and playgrounds.
Here in BVI we have large speed bumps at either end of a school zone to let you know that you are entering one, and it slows everyone down, and our speed limits are much lower than UK anyway.
Lord Ikea
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9:19am Fri 10 Feb 12
Stand outside any school and the worst drivers are school run Mum's, and most of those mum's are the first to complain about the "other drivers".
bazzeroz
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10:50am Fri 10 Feb 12
HWinWindies
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12:01pm Fri 10 Feb 12
I do not see what point you are trying to make. If you want to take a small area and compare it to BVI, may I suggest Braishfield, about which the article is written. We have a larger population, and similar sized roads, but we post police officers and orderlies outside schools at the relevant time in the mornings and afternoons, to ensure traffic calming.
It may br distasteful to have to incur local costs for safety measures, but it is indicative of a communities sensitivities.
In Cambridgeshire, larger than the whole New Forest, a number of villages have traffic calming around schools.
I was highlighting the fact that there needs to be public will to sort it out, and the irony of using chilfren in the protest.
Gainer T Gopher says...
6:12pm Thu 9 Feb 12