20 is plenty for Deal.....
Alan's Letter in this week's EKM:
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How right Mr. Finney* is in calling for a 20 mph speed limit on all residential roads in Deal.
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How right Mr. Finney* is in calling for a 20 mph speed limit on all residential roads in Deal.
There has grown up in Deal a culture of quite reckless
speeding – a blight on our town, and a real danger to cyclists, pedestrians –
and motorists themselves.
Thirty years ago I saw a young cyclist knocked down and
killed by a speeding motorist. Regularly, memories of that day come back to
haunt me. If I cannot forget, what dreadful sorrow and regret must overshadow
both the family of the dead child, and the motorist?
Every age of history, civilised in most ways, has its own
moral blind-spot, based on the mistaken pseudo-philosophy of: “Well, everybody
else is doing it.” Remember the use of
slaves in the American cotton-fields, and Victorian child chimney-sweeps. Today, we allow many motorists, largely
unchallenged, to drive among us at speeds that spell almost certain death for
any cyclist or pedestrian who makes a single false move. Motorists, too, are
capable of mistakes, with potentially fatal consequences – perhaps for
themselves.
I do understand the problem from both sides. I sometimes
drive a car too, and in the past I have not always rigorously obeyed speed
limits. But in my best, rational mind I know that it is right for life-saving
speed limits to be imposed, and rigorously enforced. Now is the time to remove our
blind spot.
I am seeking to form a pressure group to campaign for the
introduction of 20 mph speed limits on all the residential roads in Deal. If
you would like to join in, please contact me using the email address:
alangleave@yahoo.co.uk.
Alan Gleave
* Mr. Finney’s letter was published in last week’s paper."
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