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Speed sign in wrong place
Sent to West Northamptonshire Council 16 hours, 54 minutes later. ref: 6440485.
Burcote Wood sits just off the new road relief roundabout along the Burcote road towards Silverstone. The wood has a public footpath that comes out on the Burcote road approx 70 meters up on the right from the roundabout, unfortunately due to hedge growth and the bend in the road pedestrians cannot see what is coming from Silverstone way. When placing the new road signs approx 40 meters from the roundabout, no consideration was taken as to the public coming in and out of the woods, which are well used. There is no pedestrian footpath by the road, and the speed limit at the entrance and exit to the park is 60mph!!!!
Could the 30mph sign as traffic approaches the relief road be moved 100 meters further away from the roundabout to slow traffic down? There are also no warning signs of pedestrians in road which there should be.
This morning I was almost knocked down by a van, I was walking facing the traffic, the correct side, however, a vehicle was approaching the roundabout, the van driver, on exiting the roundabout, ignored me put his foot down and just missed my left arm. The signage is aiding and abetting drivers to speed up directly off the roundabout.
Please can something be done before there is serious accident on this blind and black spot.
Updates
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Category changed from ‘Other’ to ‘Damaged / Missing / Facing Wrong Way’
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You can also keep up to date on highways by following us on Facebook and Twitter @wnhighwaysThank you for your enquiry relating to speed of traffic and your request for a review of the current national limit of 60mph. We are sorry to hear of your recent incident involving a van driver and hope you have recovered from these very unsettling events.
In terms of setting appropriate speed limits we take the pragmatic view that if they do not command driver understanding or respect they will be frequently contravened. In other words the road environment should provide a clear illustration as to why a particular speed limit has been imposed and encourage self-compliance.Given the function, rural characteristics and surrounding open nature of this road it is likely that a 30mph extension would be unrealistic and non-compliance will be widespread. It is considered that this would not be obvious to a careful and competent motorist because the 30mph limit would be situated too far from the junction and, furthermore, would not reflect the look and feel of the road environment. We know from long experience that merely lowering the speed limit will not be sufficient to achieve conformity without the addition of self-enforcing calming measures. If speed limits are implemented that do not command driver understanding or respect, they simply create an illusion of change and are frequently contravened. In other words the road environment should provide a clear illustration as to why a particular speed limit has been imposed. It is also our experience that the consequence of unrealistic speed limit reductions is a constant and insistent level of expectation from local communities for retrospective engineering interventions or enforcement activity from our police colleagues.
In this scenario, we would not provide warning signs or speed limits specifically for a public footpath / access from private land, or footpaths that form part of the Public Rights of Way network, which, due to their inherent nature are often situated unsystematically on countryside roads. We are mindful that determining an appropriate speed limit is not an exact science and can often divide opinion, particularly when the road characteristics and environment change rapidly over relatively short distances. We trust the above information provides you with an explanation for the rationale behind our approach to setting speed limits.
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