Slow Down! Huge 30mph Sign Painted On House

Whats the betting the local council will say he needs planning permission for the sign.

I'm also surprised the council haven't threatened him with all manner of legal action for not applying for planning permission.

We need to do as in Spain . At villages traffic lights go to red if they detect a car approaching over the allowed limit.Simple but effective use of technology.

Even at that size I doubt some will see it, people like that are too busy trying to be the fastest thing on the road without any care for others.

With the speed some people go when passing through a village or a town then it might be better to have spike traps deploy for anyone going over the intended limit, that should slow them down.

That or having their licence revoked and made to take the bus.

good idea but whats the chances some graffiti div will turn the 3 into an 8.

Good try but most of the speeding idiots won't take any notice.

good on him there is so many carless drivers about these days a 16 yr old lad was killed by my house last year if the car had been in the 30mph zone he would of been able to finish senior school now so i support him every step of the way WELL DONE a run down area or not its the law if you cant abide by it then dont drive

It's a shame they live at number 28.

Living, as I do, in a small village where a minority of inconsiderate boy-racers make life very unpleasant, this gentleman has my sympathy!! Give some people a car and a licence to drive (not always insurance though) and they act as if they own the entire area and it doesn't matter if children, older people or pets (especially) are put at risk as they show off their extension to the under-developed parts of their anatomy!It may not help, it probably won't since the kind of #$%$ who disregards other people rights to enjoy their own home is probably not numerate, but I suspect that he got the same pleasure from painting that up and making his feelings known as I do when I can hold up the speed merchants in my own village.Consideration on the road encompasses not only the other road users folks, it includes those who have the right to enjoy their HOMES without the minority of no-brain petrol heads spoiling it.

Very professional paint job!

Some people will always ignore signs, just like the double yellow lines and pay and display signs by the mosque in Harrow. Even private gardens aren't out of bounds. Then again the council have told the traffic wardens not to issue tickets during prayer times in case they 'offend' anyone.

From the number of people assuming that the sign may cause an accident, only goes to prove the poor reaction time of the majority of motorists using our roads.

It's a wonder this government hasn't ruled it illegal to paint this sign.
It appears that everything else a British Citizen does is !

My car has cruise control and I use it at every opportunity set at the legal limit for the road I'm on. I have been overtaken twice recently on 30mph residential roads by women taking kids to school and am usually the slowest car on any given stretch of road until the speed gets up to 50mph or above when I usually pull away. It seems most drivers travel at between 35 to 45 mph everywhere, unless they see a camera car etc.

i painted a naked woman on one of my houses , that slowed down most of the male drivesr i can tell thy ....

Cornwall's answer to speeding motorists is to impose 20mph restrictions wherever they can.Lets go back to educating people. On my drive home, I often encounter youths (of both sexes) who purposely muck about in front of cars for the hell of it. I did tell a few that I only knock down kids on even dates in the month. The next time I saw them I accellerated and scared the #$%$ out of them. They don't bother any more. I also threaten cyclists who pull up beside me at traffic lights to go straight on when I have my left indicator running. I tell them to back up or be splatted. There is so little respect for the highway code today. One day someone will obey the laws of the road. Someone will not step in front of a car because they think they are invincible. Someone will follow the green cross code etc and not just muck around in traffic.

Good on him. He's doing something the local council won't do, but should have done. I wonder if the fact that he's going to paint over it soon is due to pressure from the council to do so? ....I wouldn't be at all surprised if some jumped up jobsworth told him that the sign was unlawful because it contravened the Highways dept's road signage program blah blah blah. Councils need to be more flexible and listen to their residents more, and less rigid in the way they sometimes dogmatically refuse to put a speed sign up at a location where it is so obviously needed.

I also wonder if the council were grateful to the man for doing this on their behalf or as more likely, whether they found him irritating and issued a stern letter telling him to remove the sign. In times like now, Councils really need to listen to their residents even more than before, instead of ploughing on with their own agenda. If an individuals idea is a sensible one or in this case it compliments other road signs then a council should take it up and adopt it, rather than fight it just because that individual is not a council employee. This isn't undermining the council as very often they need to be told by people outside that an idea is good, bad or whether a sign is needed in a particular place where there isn't one at present.

Also why hasn't the council put in a pelican crossing where the village shop is???? .....they seem like they're not serving their residents adequately enough and are more concerned with mainatining the flow of through traffic instead. A case of priorities in the wrong area maybe.

Good for him. We have the same probs. Drivers doing up to 80 mph in a 30 limit. If caught £1000.00 fine and loss of licence for life.

Photoshop? If not he's done a good job painting it so round.

I drive a lot for appointments with tight deadlines, my sat nav picks up queueing traffic and advises of delays which I use as guidelines for arrival time at my appointments and advise my appointee if I'm going to be late.

However, my sat nav can not advise me of the drivers who decide to drive below the speed limit and delay my journey unnecessarily, for example those travelling at 30mph on single carriageway national speed limit roads (where the speed limit is 60mph). This means I have to go over the speed limit where I can to make up the time, I don't like doing it but with tight deadlines I am forced too.

So, while I appreciate there are morons out there who speed for no real reason, there are many people on the road who have time schedules to stick to, and are speeding due to being previously slowed down by the under speed limit drivers.

I would argue that speed limits should be adhered to where possible, this being when there is no traffic in front of you, you travel at the speed limit, not under or over. This way, traffic will generally move more swiftly and reduce the likelihood of unnecessary speeding.

So, please, if you drive at 20mph on a 30mph road OR 40mph on a 60mph road, think about the unnecessary delays you are causing to other drivers, and drive to the speed limits so that those drivers don't need to speed to make up time later.

I would also argue for better public transport links, then more professional drivers (e.g. bus drivers) would be 'on the road', meaning many nervous or unsafe drivers would not need to drive at all. One example is some elderly drivers who due to age have slower reactions, this affects other drivers and should be avoided as much as possible. Just last night, I was driving down a country lane (speed limit 60mph), caught up with another car that was travelling at around 20mph and kept braking, when I eventually got past, the driver was an elderly lady around 80 years old. You have to ask (with all due respect).. if she has issues driving in the dark, should she actually be driving at all?