IT IS good news that lower speed limits are proposed on the A46, but these alone will do nothing to deter arrogant motorists from speeding well above the limit set – almost certainly the cause of the recent fatal accident.

The county council has a bizarre and unconscionable policy that ‘traffic calming’- that is rumble strips, speed bumps or humps which prevent speeding, can only be applied to blackspot areas, which means that several people have to be killed or maimed first.

In Painswick we have been pressing for over a year for a solution to the seven out of 10 motorists who speed through the 20mph zone along New Street on the A46.

Narrow pavements, aged disabled residents, mothers with children going to and from school using this main street, have scant concern for the traffic committee, and now their response is to place flashing signs on the 30mph limit, way outside the 20mph ‘rat run’ in the town centre. Can this crass stupidity be approved by the county council’s traffic committee?

Evidently so, as Cllr Jason Bullingham, who pontificates in your paper about the A46 reduction in the speed limit, is completely silent about measures to prevent speeding in the town where he lives and where there is a widely disregarded 20mph zone.

It is time that the county council was challenged by all those whom suffer from speeding motorists in dangerous 20mph areas, to take preventive action and not hide behind some appalling dictum that death has to provide the reason for controls.

Jonathan Choat

Painswick