M25 speeding

Car_54

Nearly_Old wrote: »

20mph Zones are non-enforceable and rely on road design (traffic calming, etc) to encourage/force drivers to slow down.

Not according to ACPO https://allpartycycling.org/2013/03/06/acpo-clairfy-their-position-on-20mph-speed-limits/

Nearly_Old

The actual wording is:
"Successful 20 mph zones and 20 mph speed limits are generally self‐enforcing, i.e. the existing conditions of the road together with measures such as traffic calming or signing, publicity and information as part of the scheme, lead to a mean traffic speed compliant with the speed limit." My bold Also the reference is now over 4 years old and ACPO has ceased to exist.

6 or 7 days a week I drive through a Statutory 20 limit approximately 1/2 a mile long on a staight residential road with no additional traffic calming that goes past a primary school. At first it worked reasonably well but then many people started to ignore it. A couple of visits from Safety Reduction Camera van soon meant that people got the message.

Uxb

Try reading this FOI request about 20 mph prosecutions is Oxford
Dates from 2015
The answer was that in the year prior to the FOI request 952 fixed penalties were issued.
https://www.thamesvalley.police.uk/about-us/publications-and-documents/20mph-enforcement-oxford-hqpa308115/

or read about it in the Oxford times
http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/14337310.Drivers_caught_speeding_in_Oxford_20mph_zones_quadruples_in_four_years/

Car_54

Nearly_Old wrote: »

The actual wording is:
"Successful 20 mph zones and 20 mph speed limits are generally self‐enforcing, i.e. the existing conditions of the road together with measures such as traffic calming or signing, publicity and information as part of the scheme, lead to a mean traffic speed compliant with the speed limit." My bold Also the reference is now over 4 years old and ACPO has ceased to exist.

ACPO may have ceased to exist, but the law hasn't changed. The police may choose not to enforce, but there is nothing to stop them.

Warwick_Hunt

[quote=[Deleted User];73292184]ACPO may have ceased to exist, but the law hasn't changed. The police may choose not to enforce, but there is nothing to stop them.[/QUOTE]

So why did you post this?

[quote=[Deleted User];73106701]Can you provide a source for that "fact"?[/QUOTE]