The newly-imposed 30mph speed limit introduced in Scawby Brook is difficult to get used to for many of us who've driven out of Brigg on the A18 for years and years when 40mph was in force in the hamlet.
It's a bit like autopilot. As soon as you exit Brigg and cross the bridge over the New River Ancholme you expect to be able to press the accelerator. Only now you can't.
Sadly, rather than merely hanging a new 30mph circular sign in place of the one that said 40mph, North Lincolnshire Council has chosen to leave the pole without a numbered "lollipop".
Clearly there's still time to alter this. And it wouldn't be much of a job.
You can see why the highway authority has done what it's done: There's long been a 30mph limit in Bridge Street and now you cross the bridge and pass the leisure centre into Scawby Brook it's still 30mph. So there's no technical requirement for a warning sign on the road at this point.
However, it would be appreciated by motorists if they'd hang a 30mph sign on the post that's still there - if only as a temporary measure for a few months until drivers have had time to get used to the lower limit.
It's interesting to note that at the other end of the new 30mph limit, between the mini-roundabout and Castlethorpe Corner, the council has installed an advisory sign to tell drivers they are entering a new speed limit. This is praiseworthy, but the road layout is such that almost all drivers will have slowed down on the approach to the main junction with the mini-roundabout.
An advisory sign warning drivers that they are entering a new speed limit would surely be equally, if not more, effective if placed near the entrance to the leisure centre.
Our reference to drivers here should also be taken to include motor-cyclists and moped riders.
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True.....but I see that THEY have now erected some red signs indicating that there is a change in the speed limit....one is this side of the old Oil Mill Bridge, just before the LC.
These signs do not seem to be very conspicuous, especially as the unwary, which make most of us, have been conditioned to expect a 40mph just over the bridge.
Motorists travelling out of Brigg towards Scunny are the most vulnerable, as there is no legal reason for the 30mph signs to be repeated - as with, for example, 20mph, 40mph signs - so the new 30mph stretch has now become a continual continuation of the 30mph limit throughout the town's main roads.
It would still prove useful if advisory signs were placed strategically along the whole stretch & before one reaches the new speed restriction section.
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