The Government’s road safety strategy ‘Tomorrow’s roads: safer for everyone’ (Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, 2000) stated that a standard speed limit of 30 mph in villages should be the norm. This guidance seeks to give examples of the measures available to encourage compliance with the limit. This guidance may be suitable for those villages situated on primary routes. But where there is concern, an assessment framework currently under development will help identify the strategic significance of such roads, thereby helping to define the most appropriate speed limit. The current guidance for the setting of speed limits, Circular Roads 1/93 (CR1/93, Department of Transport, 1993), sets out procedures for determining appropriate speed limits. In Scotland, the equivalent guidance is SOID Circular 1/93 (Scottish Office, 1993). Both contain information on flexibility for the treatment of villages in respect of lower limits is contained in the guidance. (Author/publisher)
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