Speed limit changes?

[jdpjamesp]

Hoping one you knowledgeable lot can help! What is needed to change the speed limit of a section of road? There's a section of road near me where the limit has always been 40. It was clearly marked at both ends. 30 either side of that. The 40 signs have all gone, although the 30 signs at each end are still there. Is this sufficient notice to change the limit? Or is something else required? Nobody has any clue what the limit is meant to be.

 

[anotherdouble]

A sign telling you what the speed limit is. Sometimes an additional sign may be erected informing you that the speed limit has changed. In your post you say that the 40 signs have gone but the 30 is still there. Well that tells me that the speed limit is 30

 

[Imurg]

I concur with my learned colleague from the South Coast..👍😁

 

[Blue in Munich]

And I'd say the same; they've removed the 40mph signs and left the 30mph signs. Have you got street lighting there?

 

[anotherdouble]

I concur with my learned colleague from the South Coast..👍😁

Why thank you sir👍

 

[jdpjamesp]

Some street lighting but not all the way through IIRC. I agree if the 40s are gone it's now a 30, but it's a bit sneaky not to make it more obvious for those who use the road regularly.
I have been sticking to 30, but had people up my rear, impatient.

 

[chrisd]

I have been sticking to 30, but had people up my rear, impatient.

You're more likely to end up an outpatient if you keep doing that! 😁

 

[clubchamp98]

You're more likely to end up an outpatient if you keep doing that! 

Prescott bypass has gone from 60 to 40mph because they put lights at the safari park .
Most have took no notice and just stick to 80 as usual.
They have put up new signs though.

 

[clubchamp98]

Some street lighting but not all the way through IIRC. I agree if the 40s are gone it's now a 30, but it's a bit sneaky not to make it more obvious for those who use the road regularly.
I have been sticking to 30, but had people up my rear, impatient.

They should replace the 40 mph signs with 30mph signs to warn you of the change .

 

[Blue in Munich]

They should replace the 40 mph signs with 30mph signs to warn you of the change .

Why should they; there's already 30mph signs each end & street lighting if I'm reading it correctly? They only need 30mph signs if the streetlights are more than 200 yards apart.

 

[Doh]

I was told if you cannot see any speed signs then the speed limit is always 30.

 

[Blue in Munich]

I was told if you cannot see any speed signs then the speed limit is always 30.

If there's street lighting that's the case.

 

[Imurg]

I was told if you cannot see any speed signs then the speed limit is always 30.

Depends on the streetlights...
No lights, no signs = National limit
With lights and no signs = 30.

 

[ScienceBoy]

After 10 years of driving 2-3 under the speed limit I have gotten used to honking and being overtaken, happens almost daily in 30 zones.

Waze tells you the speed limit and it’s close enough to being up to date. Updated just a few days after a local road near me changed from a 30 to a 20.

I use it any time I’m going to drive unfamiliar roads or there is a chance of it. Even locally as I’m still new to most parts of my local city.

 

[Pathetic Shark]

Does that 30 mph limit even apply to Audis and BMWs?

 

[Imurg]

Does that 30 mph limit even apply to Audis and BMWs?

Apparently not. They also don't seem to apply after 9pm and before 8am, especially at weekends....
I think Aylesbury taxi drivers believe the limit is the minimum....

 

[Tashyboy]

Some street lighting but not all the way through IIRC. I agree if the 40s are gone it's now a 30, but it's a bit sneaky not to make it more obvious for those who use the road regularly.
I have been sticking to 30, but had people up my rear, impatient.

i went to magistrates court a few times ( long story ). Any way a guy got done for doing more than 30 mph on a rd that he knew/ the whole village knew was being reduced from 40-30. They had campaigned for it. Which ever authority was in charge was supposed to let the village know through local newsletters etc when it was being done. They didn't. His arguement was that he had driven onto this rd from a side rd which never stated that the rd had now been reduced to 30 mph. The court agreed with him and asked which ever authority to make sure the rd signs on side roads where put in place. They also asked the authority's in charge of said rd change to let the village know through news letters etc. The guy said not to bother with the last bit as the whole village was now having a good laugh at his " ordeal " as he was one of the guys who campaigned for the reduction.

 

[Tashyboy]

Depends on the streetlights...
No lights, no signs = National limit
With lights and no signs = 30.

Having been on two speed awareness courses I am now of the ilk that the rules re speed limits and what does or does not denote what the speed limits are, with the necessary exceptions. It is all Ballax. Makes me chuckle that on a rd there may be X number of speed camera signs but no speed limit signs.

 

[Imurg]

Speed limit changes have to be done properly.
When a huge estate was built here a few years back, the main road through was designated a 40, all side roads 30
But, if you came in from the other end of the estate there were no 30 signs changing from the 40 zone.
Our local Tesco has 20 limit signs on the approach road - both ways. But they don't change it back to 30..so it's unenforceable

 

[ScienceBoy]

And the just to confuse things more we wake up to this madness

Motorway roadworks speed limit could be increased
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41704392