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West Leeds: 20mph speed zones for Bramley estates
New 20 miles per hour speed limits and zones are to be introduced to large swathes of a west Leeds district named as one of the city’s accident hotspots.
The measures will be introduced in Bramley, in the Ganners, Broadleas and Landseer estates.
The majority of the changes will involve new 20mph ‘zones’, as well as traffic calming measures and some enforceable speed limits.
A consultation paper currently being sent out to homes in the area said: “Several areas in Leeds have been selected for the introduction of 20mph zones, and, where necessary, traffic calming features.
“Bramley was one of the areas that has been chosen due to its high number of injury accidents.”
The move follows a “cluster” of accidents around the Victoria Park Avenue junction with Kirkstall Avenue and “sporadic” accidents around Broadlea Terrace and Outgang Lane.
Leeds City Council currently has around 55 20mph zones and is planning to install 13 20mph schemes around schools and residential areas in 2012.
A spokeswoman said a citywide default 20mph scheme for residential roads – like the ones adopted by cities like Oxford and Newcastle – was “not really suited” to Leeds’s road network, but an expansive scheme, made up of patches of residential areas and defined by primary and distributor roads, was “essentially what we are doing, but slowly rather than in one go, with the available funds being focused at the locations with high injury accident records”.
Mark Lansdown, from the Leeds branch of the 20’s Plenty for Us campaign, welcomed the latest instalment of speed reductions.
“It’s hard to think of reasons why the speed limit in every residential area shouldn’t be reduced,” he said. “You reduce accidents, reduce the costs to taxpayers for treating people in hospitals, and get more people walking and cycling.”
Research shows that two-thirds of all child pedestrian accidents happen in residential areas, and that casualties can reduce by up to 70 percent where 20mph zones have been introduced.
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John44
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 08:59 PMFunny how Bramley are getting 20 mph zones with signs hope you have more luck than Armley where I live nobody takes a blind bit of notice of these signs the few that have been put up. The highways dept.of LCC must one of the biggest jokes in Leeds. There workmanship is abysmal and that is being polite as for there Boss sitting in his 'Ivory Tower' is not worth a light. Best of luck!!!!!
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