I spotted this today: Speed limits to be cut on 84 roads across Lancashire, a report in the Lancashire Telegraph stating that a two-year County Council study of all the county’s A and B roads has recommended new speed limits for 84 stretches of road.

The newspaper report goes on to say that 13 will be cut in West Lancashire.

This is a different initiative to the reduction in national speed limits that I posted about yesterday, and taken together should make the roads in West Lancs even safer. Once I get a copy of the report I’ll post which roads are recommended for speed changes.

UPDATE:

This is due for discussion at the Lancashire Local meeting on Thursday, agenda here. Scroll down to item 10 on the agenda and you’ll find all the information.

Interesting to see that this is a scheme that has been worked on for the past two years and that it will take up to another two years to be implemented, so not the fastest turnaround ever. The work was kicked off following guidance from the government (“Setting Local Speed Limits” is available on the dti website here), which itself was the result of a number of years work.

These things take a long time to go from national review, to guidance, to local review to implementation, but it will be worth it in the end.