Today the petition calling for a 50mph limit on the A505 between Slip End and Odsey was presented to the County Council’s Highways and Transport panel. The highways officers recommended that, despite the petition getting many hundreds of signatures from local people, the speed limit should remain unchanged.

They say that the limit cannot be reduced because the traffic is going too fast, which is clearly ridiculous.

In addition they said that there were not enough accidents within 75 yards of each other to qualify for anything to be done, which also does not make much sense.

We did however manage to get the panel to agree that if some more speed measurements done they would reconsider whether the speed limit should be changed.

It seems unlikely that the new speed measurements will show anything different from the last set but I have agreed to fund another set of measurements from the highways locality budget. We can then have another go at getting what should be a simple change to make this section of the A505 slightly safer.