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Post by willien on Aug 24, 2023 17:47:07 GMT
Just behind my house we have a road that hasn't had speed limit signs for years. I think the unlit rural single carriageway bit used to have national speed restriction signs but now depending on which direction you are driving it the last speed limit sign you'll see is either 30 or 40.
If it has street lights, it doesn't need signs - except to advise of a higher speed limit.
In the absence of signs stating otherwise, a single-carriageway or dual-carriageway road with street lights has a default speed limit of 30mph.
Assuming you are broadly correct (and I believe you are) it should be "except to advise of a higher or lower speed limit" |
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Post by peterba on Aug 24, 2023 17:50:28 GMT
If it has street lights, it doesn't need signs - except to advise of a higher speed limit.
In the absence of signs stating otherwise, a single-carriageway or dual-carriageway road with street lights has a default speed limit of 30mph.
Assuming you are broadly correct (and I believe you are) it should be "except to advise of a higher or lower speed limit"
Yep - mea culpa, Willie. Sloppy writing, on my part!
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Post by geoffr on Aug 24, 2023 18:13:35 GMT
Without more context the Brighton sign look OK but it may well be that other factors make it less obvious and or less visible, for example it could be sighted in such a way that most drivers are, of necessity, looking elsewhere. Unfortunately there are many signs positioned badly, ome might even get the impression that this is a deliberated money making policy.
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Post by andy on Aug 24, 2023 18:26:14 GMT
Just behind my house we have a road that hasn't had speed limit signs for years. I think the unlit rural single carriageway bit used to have national speed restriction signs but now depending on which direction you are driving it the last speed limit sign you'll see is either 30 or 40.
If it has street lights, it doesn't need signs - except to advise of a higher speed limit.
In the absence of signs stating otherwise, a single-carriageway or dual-carriageway road with street lights has a default speed limit of 30mph.
No street lights on the bit that used to be a 60. No 30 signs at one end of the bit with street lights either. The 30 zone section has speed bumps too where every other road with speed bumps in the area is a 20. |
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Post by mick on Aug 25, 2023 7:20:08 GMT
Looks like they have put the sign just after a corner, which could make it difficult to see as drivers are likely looking at the road when cornering and then it could be outside their field of vision (much like many 20mph sign round here which are placed just after turning into a junction and well outside where I'm looking). Apologies. I should have made it clear that the sign I linked to as an example was not in Brighton it was elsewhere.
Mick
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