CRY HARDER YOU SELFISH MORONS.
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As regular readers of the live blog will know, from September blanket 20mph zones will be introduced in Wales on residential areas and streets busy with pedestrians, and where street lights are fewer than 200 yards apart.

However, Ceredigion, a county in the west of Wales, where the council will be required to conduct a formal consultation on the new arrangements, residents have created a petition to stop one rural hamlet from being subject to the proposed 20mph limit.

Nation Cymru reports (link is external) that on Tuesday Ceredigion County Council received a petition calling for the 30mph zone to remain in Stag’s Head, between Llangeitho and Tregaron, on safety and pollution grounds.

“We, the undersigned, object to the above proposal on the following grounds: the proposal is not necessary because the roads involved have a very low accident rate, the roads have a very low volume of traffic,” the petition reads.

The angry residents claim that by lowering the speed limit, motorists will be too busy watching the needle on their dashboard to see children, emboldened by the measures, playing in the middle of the road.

I wish I was making this up.

“The proposed 20mph limit is not desirable because: it will greatly increase noise and air pollution as the vehicles will be in a low gear especially ascending the three gradients to Stags Head crossroads; drivers will pay more attention to the finer
detail of their speedometers at the expense of paying attention to the road ahead; the very slow pace of vehicles could actually encourage children to play in the road,” it says.

“The 20mph limit proposals across the country are a gross waste of public money which should be spent maintaining the road surfaces properly, keeping road drains clear and clearing debris from the sides of the highway.

“All these are essential to primary road safety but are deliberately ignored by Ceredigion Highways Department in the ongoing negligence.”
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