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Bid to curb speed limit to 20mph in Bath Road
DEVIZES Town Council is urging Wiltshire County Council to help stop motorists speeding in Bath Road, Devizes.
The town council was contacted by James Bates, a resident of Park Dale Terrace in Bath Road, who thinks that reducing the speed limit from 30mph to 20mph from the top of Caen Hill to the Dunkirk Hill junction would deter speeders.
Mr Bates, a retired engineer, moved into Bath Road last September from Cornwall and is concerned at the number of motorists he says speed along the road.
He wrote to the county council requesting a 20mph limit but was told this was unlikely and that a 20mph limit would require other traffic calming measures to be put in.
It would also need the support of the town council for the county council to consider it.
The town council considered Mr Bates' request for a 20mph limit at a planning committee meeting but did not support it.
It decided to ask the county council for mobile speed camera monitoring and for additional 30mph limit road signs to be installed on the road.
Coun Paula Winchcombe said: "I can understand the frustration of people living in Bath Road but the recent traffic model for Devizes didn't suggest 20mph as an option.
"Between 8am and 9.30am the road is at a standstill anyway."
Gordon Topp, of Bath Road, has had his front garden wall demolished twice in the last 12 months. He believes lowering the speed limit to 20mph would be the best solution.
He said: "Approximately 80 per cent of the vehicles outbound exceed the 30mph limit."
A spokesman for Wiltshire County Council said: "We recently renewed the white lines and painted slow signs on Prison Bridge. The warning signs are due to be replaced. We will install a new chevron sign."
10:49am Thursday 1st May 2008
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