20MPH speed limits North Cardiff

[North Cardiff Blue]

How are you supposed to drive at 20mph from the manor way Whitchurch Golf Course to the Deri Pub, through 2 speed cameras and mixed signs some saying 30mph some saying 20mph?

I can understand small roads especially where people are double parked, and close to schools but roads of this size and it just doesn't make sense, the cars struggle to go that slow?

Obviously this is the trial area for the rest of Wales, wait till you try and drive that slow on decent wide safe roads.

[Rjk]

Re: 20MPH speed limits North Cardiff

no car I've ever driven would struggle to keep it to 20mph, if they were being driven properly

[North Cardiff Blue]

Re: 20MPH speed limits North Cardiff

no car I've ever driven would struggle to keep it to 20mph, if they were being driven properly

Yes maybe the wrong wording, it feels uncomfortable and way to slow in automatic 2 litres, it's probably in 2nd gear maybe 3rd, I doubt its much good for cars to trundle around at that speed?

A road like that doesn't require such a low speed in a modern car with decent brakes, it's not a dangerous road.

[Rjk]

Re: 20MPH speed limits North Cardiff

Yes maybe the wrong wording, it feels uncomfortable and way to slow in automatic 2 litres, it's probably in 2nd gear maybe 3rd, I doubt its much good for cars to trundle around at that speed?

A road like that doesn't require such a low speed in a modern car with decent brakes, it's not a dangerous road.

yes it feels slow, but that's a driver issue, not a car issue I'd say.
I guess it wouldn't be good to do a long distance at that speed, but most of the 20mph zones are just residential areas that you'd be unlikely to drive a long way in

[BLUETIT]

Re: 20MPH speed limits North Cardiff

How are you supposed to drive at 20mph from the manor way Whitchurch Golf Course to the Deri Pub, through 2 speed cameras and mixed signs some saying 30mph some saying 20mph?

I can understand small roads especially where people are double parked, and close to schools but roads of this size and it just doesn't make sense, the cars struggle to go that slow?

Obviously this is the trial area for the rest of Wales, wait till you try and drive that slow on decent wide safe roads.

They covered the 30 signs with black bags 2 weeks ago. Either someone removed them, or the weather got to them.

Totally unenforceable at the moment

[ToTaL ITK]

Re: 20MPH speed limits North Cardiff

Yes maybe the wrong wording, it feels uncomfortable and way to slow in automatic 2 litres, it's probably in 2nd gear maybe 3rd, I doubt its much good for cars to trundle around at that speed?

A road like that doesn't require such a low speed in a modern car with decent brakes, it's not a dangerous road.

my suggestion as that you sell your car and buy something like a 900cc that struggles at 50mph in top gear

[Mario Miethig]

Re: 20MPH speed limits North Cardiff

Noticed the 20mph speed limit going past Thornhill Crem going into Llanishen. Ridiculous having 20mph there.

[Rjk]

Re: 20MPH speed limits North Cardiff

Noticed the 20mph speed limit going past Thornhill Crem going into Llanishen. Ridiculous having 20mph there.

not with the size of the speed bump they've put along there it isn't

[Mario Miethig]

Re: 20MPH speed limits North Cardiff

not with the size of the speed bump they've put along there it isn't

Past the speed bumps. Think it’s 20mph by the sainsburys/greggs, going towards the Morrison roundabout.

[Joe Gillis]

Re: 20MPH speed limits North Cardiff

Its the same from Morganstown (Pugh's Garden Centre) to Radyr, 20mph. Absolute joke

[life on mars]

Re: 20MPH speed limits North Cardiff

If I honest I am finding quite calming . Sadly Electric bikes ,scooters and wheelchairs are whizzing.

[Whisperer]

Re: 20MPH speed limits North Cardiff

Get use to it because it’s here to stay, my boy passed his test in January in NW London and he’d never got out of 2nd gear through most of his learning.

[dembethewarrior]

Re: 20MPH speed limits North Cardiff

Get use to it because it’s here to stay, my boy passed his test in January in NW London and he’d never got out of 2nd gear through most of his learning.

A lad I work with said it took him hour and 20 minutes to drive about 3 miles in London a few weeks back. **** driving right in the centre of London!

[tforturton]

Re: 20MPH speed limits North Cardiff

It's all bollocks and completely unnecessary.

[dembethewarrior]

Re: 20MPH speed limits North Cardiff

It's all bollocks and completely unnecessary.

People do 50 on the 70 part if the a470. There will be plenty doing 15mph in the 20 "just to be sure".