New Rules on Speed Limit Signs
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THE Minister of Transport has issued
a circular to local authorities in England and Wales explaining the effect of forthcoming chaOges in the law relating to the general speed limit of 30 m.p.h. in built;ina areas. A similar circular is being issued to local authorities in Scotland by the Secretary or State.
Unfit now the provision of a system of street lighting with lamps not more than 200 yd. apart has automatically imposed a speed limit of 30 m.p.h. This will no longer apply on trunk and classified roads after July 1. From that date new speed limits on trunk and classified roads can belinposed only by order after each case has been considered. This change does not apply to unclassified roads—which include the majority of residential roads— where the installation of street lighting will still automatically impose a speed limit.
These changes, under Section 4 of the Road Traffic Act, 1956, are accompanied by variations in speed-limit signs. Drivers will continue to sec the familiar signs where a speed limit begins and ends, but new signs which are put up will be larger.
Some roads are subject to a speed limit, although there is no street lighting or the lamps are very widely spaced.
• On these roads "repeater" signs will indicate the existence of the speed limit. These signs will be a small replica of the signs at the beginning of the speed limit and will he placed so that the driver receives a reminder on one side of the road or the other at intervals of about 150 yd.
' On roads where there is. street lighting hut no speed limit, a small replica of the derestriction sign will be required on every lamp-post or near every lamp, irrespective of the distance between lamps.
DICK TURPIN RIDES AGAIN
ATEST "stunt-" arranged by the 1--+ Roads Campaign Council to draw attention to the need for better highways was for "Dick Turpin " to ride, on horseback, from York to London to present a petition signed by 63,000 Yorkshire people to Parliament. He left on Monday and arrived on Wednesday, to be met at the House of Commons by Sir Thomas Dugdale, M.P. for Richmond, Yorks.
The Council thought that Dick Turpin was an appropriate character to employ, as the Government's road policy was a modern form of highway robbery.
ROAD PETITIONS
TWOpetitions, one signed by 35.000 people in South Wales and the other by 11,000 in South Wales. Bristol, the west of England and the West Midlands, concerning the need for better roads, were presented in the House of Commons last week by Mr. H. R. Gower (Cons., Barry).