Speed limits: a selection of your views
(Febraury - March 2006)
...When I look out of my kitchen window onto Kings Lane I see on poles two road signs. The National Speed Limit. And, believe it or not, also for Leather Lane. Both are in some parts very narrow, very dangerous. Yet on the lane from South Heath to The Lee the limit is 30 or 40 mph.
I do seriously wonder from whose mind these unrealistic decisions spring forth...
...Recently I have noticed cars who use Kings Lane as a short cut, drive much faster. One is a grey two-seater Audi coupe. Is Kings Lane becoming Silverstone race track? Do we first have to have a head-on collision, or even a fatal accident? I would hope not. So the more people protest the better. There needs to be a review and a realistic common sense change. Therefore ring Bucks County Council and speak to Mr Shaun Pope.
Reina Free
Kings Ash
...The whole exercise seems to have been implemented by people who seem to have missed the point in a thinly disguised effort to dissuade motorists from motoring, in favour of the non-paying-guests on our roads (horses, cyclists, pedestrians, frogs and moorhens). Don’t get me wrong, I am happy to share the road with these, after all I am one of them sometimes. As a motorist, I always do my best to make allowances for them – most of the time with acknowledgment from the ‘guests’ concerned (but never the moorhens)...
... It is beginning to look as if we are heading back to the days when vehicles had to be escorted by men with red flags. Perhaps we should employ a team of illegal immigrants to perform this task. Perhaps we should investigate installing traffic lights, zebra crossings and speed humps, as well as those silly little islands-for-congesting-traffic such as they have in Great Missenden High Street.
Perhaps we should ban cars altogether. At least the Village Shop would be guaranteed a captive market!..
David Jones
The Lee
It was interesting to read in last month’s Newsletter two diametrically-opposed views concerning the danger on our roads from speeding traffic. On the one hand we have the self-interest of the Motorist Lobby, as provided by Mike Senior and David Jones, and on the other hand we have Reina Free (and many others who speak to me when out walking or biking), terrified out of her wits by the madmen who seem to want to make the point that speed limits are not for them...
...are we witnessing a difference in perspective between those who live in the built-up areas and side roads, where traffic speeds are low or moderate and there seems to be no problem, and those who live in the country lanes, where for the self-interested minority anything goes as far as speed is concerned? I’m on Reina’s side: something must be done to ground the speed merchants before someone is killed or maimed...
Ted Brumpton
Lee Common