Article: The absolute limit ; After a 20-year wait Staverton has at long last got a 30 mph speed limit in the village.

Article: United they stand When do half a dozen houses become just one? ...
Herald Express (Torquay UK);  July 11, 2007 ;     565 words ... ... statistics in a Devon County Council paper, proving that there is no need for a speed limit. Staverton parish ... houses. But not by county council measurements. Several ... are many places with speed limit signs where there are ...

Article: Villagers protest over speed limit on dual ...
The Northern Echo;  May 14, 2004 ;     566 words ... ... members of Durham County Council's highways committee ... retain the national speed limit when they debate ... grounds to reduce the speed limit. Th county council has carried out ... current national speed limit in operation at ...

Article: Road accident prompts speed-limit reduction calls
The Northern Echo;  June 18, 2007 ;     531 words ... ... is done about reducing the speed limit and what an awful price to ... sense to see that we need a speed limit." Durham County Council said that the length and layout ... through it means that a lower speed limit is not appropriate.

Article: Calls for lower speed limit
Citizen Gloucestershire, The;  January 21, 2009 ;     502 words ... ... should be a 30mph speed limit, as there are ... However, the county council disagrees, and ... about reducing the speed limit. Gloucestershire Police and the County Council have looked into ... justify reducing the speed limit. "Setting unrealistic ...

Article: Call to lower speed limit on 'racetrack' town road.
Spalding Guardian & Lincs Free Press (Spalding, England);  January 8, 2007 ;     671 words ... ... to call for the speed limit to be reduced. Lincolnshire County Council's highways department ... of lowering the speed limit: "It is important ... the bypass. A county council highways spokesman ... looking at the speed limit. He said ...

Article: Villagers told not enough houses for speed limit ...
Herald Express (Torquay UK);  July 2, 2007 ;     474 words ... ... chances of getting a long awaited 30 mph speed limit through their village. Devon County Council have agreed to sanction a short stretch ... Andrew George says that, in any case, speed limit signs are unlikely to persuade drivers to ...

Article: Speed limit signs will make no difference, say ...
The Northern Echo;  July 23, 2001 ;     510 words ... ... campaigning to have the speed limit halved to 30mph ... in the reduced speed limit. But residents say that Durham County Council has failed to ... spokeswoman for Durham County Council said the signs ... village about the speed limit signs and the ...