West Ashton crossroads to get speed limit reduction
November 15, 2010 10:42 AM
A request from West Ashton Parish Council to reduce the speed limit to 30mph through the A350 / West Ashton Road crossroads has been refused by Wiltshire Council, but they have agreed to reduce the limit from 50 to 40mph, rather than leave it at 50 as had been proposed under the council's speed limit review.
The 40 mph speed limit will extend from the point on the Melksham side of the junction where the 50 limit currently comes in, to a point adjacent to the southern boundary of property number 81, a distance of 360 metres. The rest of the A350 to Yarnbrook will remain at 50 mph.
In their submission in favour of a 30mph limit the parish council said they believed they meet the criteria of a minimum of 20 houses over 600 metres. The Parish Council stated that there are 7 junctions including Kettle Lane and a busy Farm Access, that there have been a number of collisions including fatalities, that vulnerable pedestrians have to use the narrow footway alongside the A350 to go to Yarnbrook, and that the undulating nature of the A350 causes restricted forward views.
However Wiltshire Council says there aren't enough houses on the A350 to justify a 30 limit. They only count frontage properties - houses set back from the road don't count, and nor does the safety of pedestrians walking along the pavement to Yarnbrook.
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