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    Woody Mellor wrote:
    Mr Udigawa wrote:
    Woody Mellor wrote:
    caliwag wrote: This is excellent news. We are all pedestrians at some time and there is no excuse for speeding...incredibl y selfish. I await a bus on Bish road (intheory a 40) and virtually everyone is doing 50+...with tricky blind junctions...how do I know? I have been driving for 40+ years...you can tell by tyre noise and just the overall woosh (not technical I know)...time it all stopped. Make people aware of it at test time.
    I live on Bishy Road and you are talking utter twaddle!
    No he's not, I drive down this stretch at least a couple of times a week and usually end up being aggresively tailgated by someone anxious to get to the queue at the lights a few seconds earlier. This is a bad stretch of road, not suggesting it should be a 20 limit but 30 might be more appropriate, and 20 would definitely be better on the narrow road in and out of bish past the palace.
    Well, I have lived facing Bishy road for the last nine years. And not just drive down it a couple of times a week, but several times a day. Maybe once, and only maybe once do I ever recall being tail gated by an aggressive driver on Bishy road. And that was during the morning rush hour going around 10mph! Ps You worry me that you don't even know what the existing speed limit is on Bishy road!
    Sorry Woody, I should have made it clear that i meant the stretch between Terrys & Bish, and yes, there is generally an example of tailgating, speeding, or aggressive overtaking on a daily basis."
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20mph limit set for York’s residential streets

9:20am Thursday 24th May 2012 in News Photograph of the Author By Mark Stead , Political Reporter

TRANSPORT bosses have mapped out plans to introduce 20mph zones on all of York’s residential streets by the end of 2014.

Steps to bring in the blanket speed ban have been approved by City of York Council and the city will be split into three sectors so the schemes can be introduced in phases.

The first zone will cover the west of York between the A59 and Tadcaster Road, followed by the northern section of the city between the A19 at Clifton and Malton Road.

This will be followed by the south-eastern section, covering the area south of Malton Road to the A19/A64 junction at Fulford.

Haxby, Wigginton, Strensall, Upper and Nether Poppleton, Bishopthorpe, Copmanthorpe and Dunnington will be covered by the policy agreed by Coun Dave Merrett, the council’s cabinet member for transport, planning and sustainability, this week. Smaller villages such as Murton and Wheldrake will be looked at later.

Labour pledged to introduce a city-wide 20mph limit on residential streets last year. The policy will enable A, B and minor roads to become 20mph zones, but only if they form a natural extension to residential streets.

As well as signs, routes which have average speeds of more than 24mph will need extra enforcement measures such as road narrowing and traffic islands.

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