Have the speed limits between Rhuthun/Ruthin and Wrecsam been set too low?
Someone from this household journeys at least five and sometimes seven days a week morn & evening along the route and it is a rare day indeed when they are not overtaken at one of three points—and sometimes at all three. The only time you can guarantee not being overtaken is when there's nothing immediately behind.
Since so few seem inclined to keep within the set limits, for those who do, sticking to the prescribed speed is frustrating, as it must seem to be for those predisposed to exceeding it. It suggests two things:
There are similar issues along much of the A525 Ruthin Road before and after Bwlchgwyn, especially south west of Bwlchgwyn though, I confess, we rarely use this.
Someone from this household journeys at least five and sometimes seven days a week morn & evening along the route and it is a rare day indeed when they are not overtaken at one of three points—and sometimes at all three. The only time you can guarantee not being overtaken is when there's nothing immediately behind.
Click to enlarge. Manœuvre on the Old Road (B5430) 40 limit (B5430). Speed recorded by the car with camera was 63 km/h = 39 mph
Since so few seem inclined to keep within the set limits, for those who do, sticking to the prescribed speed is frustrating, as it must seem to be for those predisposed to exceeding it. It suggests two things:
- First, it would seem, in general and by their own actions, that motorists feel the lengths of the road in question are set at limits that are simply wrong.
- Secondly, if the intent is road safety then by adopting a limit that few regard as justified it means that public authorities are at best encouraging and at worst actually promoting unsafe practices. From daily observation, it would therefore seem that the limits have the opposite effect to that intended.
- Near the village of Llandegla on the A525 (40 mph) including the long cushion before and aftrer the Crown Inn's traffic signals
- The B5430, particularly the straight stretch from Ffordd Uchaf to the end of Hen Ffordd Bwlchgwyn/Hen Ffordd Mwynglawdd bends north west of what locally is called Y Gegin (the 40 mph section)
- In Mwynglawdd/Minera on the A525, between the Village Bakery and Five Crosses (30 mph).
Click to enlarge. Same stretch of road as above, 13 days earlier. Speed recorded by the car with camera was 64 km/h = 40 mph
There are similar issues along much of the A525 Ruthin Road before and after Bwlchgwyn, especially south west of Bwlchgwyn though, I confess, we rarely use this.
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