PLANS to impose a 30mph speed limit on Tamar Valley roads will lead to more accidents and more road rage caused by frustration.
I?ve lived in St Ann?s Chapel for 20 years and the road through the valley was always a ?clearway? with a 40mph limit. This worked well with unhindered traffic flow and very few accidents.
Last year the limit was lowered to 30mph and now vehicles can park on the road, leading to a dangerous slalom with accidents every week.
It is a fact that the road was safer before the limit was lowered and it surely won?t be long before there is a death on this stretch
A sure way to make our roads safer is to up the standards of people?s driving. One only has to observe some people trying to get their car into a parking space or around a roundabout to realise that many people on our roads are not properly in control of their vehicles. Target these drivers and safety will improve.
Slowing everyone else down to 30mph on roads where a higher speed is perfectly safe, is the wrong approach and will have the opposite effect.
Councillor Graham Porter needs to realise that some people work and need to travel efficiently on the roads. Speed is not the danger, inappropriate use of speed is. Let?s have some common sense.
Graham Wilson
Salters Farmhouse
St Ann?s Chapel