HAVE YOUR SAY: Calls for 20mph speed limit near schools
10:24am Thu 22nd Oct 09:: written by Gareth McPherson
Speed limits could be slashed outside Maidenhead schools as the council reviews limits across the Royal Borough.
Highways officers are looking into the possibility of introducing 20mph zones near to schools after a public consultation revealed support for the idea.
Gerry Heynes, headteacher of Courthouse Junior School in Pinkneys Green, called on the council to tackle speeding as ‘a matter of urgency’.
He told the consultation that a 20mph zone past the Blenheim Road school – as well as speed humps and a puffin crossing – would mean his pupils and staff would not ‘have to run the gauntlet of speeding vehicles every day’.
Ben Smith, highways manager at the Royal Borough, said the council would be putting its energy into speeding issues around schools in the first year of a three year strategy.
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- were be lucky to get upto 20mph due to the amount of cars parked outside the schools as parents are dropping off their children, they cause absolute chaos!
- great idea but how about enforcing the present laws ie driving whilst on mobile phone in school roads, parking on yellow lines at school sites, having no in date tax on the car you use for the school pick up....etc and courtesy things like not parking too close so the car infront cannot get out
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