THE controversial order which restricts the speed limit to 20mph on streets across three areas of Warrington comes into force on Friday, April 15.
Warrington Borough Council has published the order, under the Road Traffic Regulation Act, listing all the roads 
affected by the restrictions at Great Sankey, Poplars and in the town centre.
A copy of the order and statement of the council’s reason for making the order, together with plans of the restricted areas, may be examined at the council’s legal services section, Quattro Building, New Town House, Buttermarket Street, Warrington, during the usual office hours Monday to Friday.
Anyone who wishes to question the validity of the order or of any provision contained in it on the grounds that it is not within the powers conferred by the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 or on the grounds that any requirement of that Act or any instrument made under it has not been complied with in relation to the Order may, within six weeks from March 31, apply to the High Court for this purpose.
Any representation received may be considered in public by the council.
Streets named in the order are:
Barrow Hall Lane, Princess Avenue, York Avenue, Stanley Avenue, Warwick Avenue, Frazer Road, Mill Avenue, Cronulla Drive, Crovelly Avenue, Coogee Avene, Mayfair Close, Greenway, Hall Terrace, North View, Phillips Drive, Sunnyside, Snowdon Close, Vine Crescent, Conifer Grove, Rowan Close, Chestnut Avenue, Charles Avenue, Cedar Road, Woodside Road, Li8lford Drive, Halton Road, Palin Drive, Wilmot Avenue, Pyecroft Road, Ruscolm Close, Muriel Close, Audre Close, Pyecroft Close, Hilary Close, Paul Close, Lingley Road, Sanderson Close, Kintore Drive, Cromdale Way, Eeith Avenue, Rhona Drive, Duncansby Crescent, Kirkcaldy Avenue, Wroxham Road, Thetford Road, Ranworth Road, Yarmouth Road, Sheringham Road, Norfolk Drive, Lingwood Road, Wednesbury Drive, Campbell Crescent, Conway Close.
Sankey Street, Dixon Street, Arpley Street, White Street, Henry Street, Thynne Street, Hanover Street, Museum Street, Winmarleigh Street, Palmyra Square South, Palmyra Square North, Springfield Street, Bath Street, Legh Street, Bold Street, Egypt Street, Cairo Street,Suez Street, St Austins Lane, Barbauld Street, Rylands Street, Friars Lane, Friars Gate, Bridge Street, Scotland Road, Town Hill, Academy Way, Moulders Lane, Bank Street, Academy Street, Dial Street, Buttermarket Street, Nayhlor Street, James Street, Orford Street, Cockhedge Lane,
Densham Avenue, Gough Avenue, Currans Road, Armour Avenue, Marron Avenue, Dean Crescent, Brandwood Avenue, Achilles Avenue, Poole Avenue, Ajax Avenue, McKee Avenue, Hunter Avenue, Crowe Avenue, Sandy Lane West, Chiltern Crescent, Chiltern Road, Brendon Avenue, Toll Bar Road, Cheviot Avenue, Oxenham Road, Crawley Avenue, Lancing Avenue, Poplars Avenue, Cotswold Road, Ulverston Avenue, Grisedale Avenue, Ennerdale Avenue, Pentland Avenue, Pentland Place, Cleveland Road, Petworth Avenue, Loweswater Close, Brathay Close, Mendip Avenue, Swindale Avenue, Sandy Lane, St Stephens Avenue, Sinclair Avenue, Cooper Avenue, Locker Avenue, Poole Crescent, Northway, Clough Avenue, Fisher Avenue, Cossak Avenue, Shakespeare Grove, Walpole Grove, Milvain Drive, Beatty Avenue, Clive Avenue, Kipling Avenue, Tennyson, Drive, Ruskin Avenue, Dryden Place, Burns Grove, Keats Grove, The Coppins, Morgan Avenue, Statham Avenue, Patterdale Avenue, Howson Road, Penrith Avenue, Mardale Avenue, Borrowdale Avenue, Cartmel Avenue, Scafell Avenue, Bentham Avenue, Ambleside Crescent,
Appleby Road, Kirkstone Avenue, Keswick Avenue, Honister Avenue, Kendal Avenue, Bowness Avenue, Festival Avenue, Hughes Place, Hughes Avenue, Caldbeck Avenue, Lee Court, Primrose Close, Capesthorne Road, Povey Road, School Road, Neville Avenue, Burton Road, Park Road, Bruce Avenue, Osborne Avenue, Birtles Road, Woodcote Close, Warren Road.
8 Comments
Hopefully this implementation will prove the sceptics wrong. It is not a political or financial decision but one primarily of safety. After all the signs have already been paid for, are in place and most of us have got used to driving at 20mph.
If there is no significant demonstrable safety benefit after one year, will the council remove this restriction to the free movement of trafic? Or are they as dogmatically wedded to the idea – regardless of lack of objective supporting evidence – as they appear to be?
Studying the list of roads, there are some which are clearly not “residential” and many where it would be impossible to drive faster than 20mph anyway. It may be, as Cll Geoff Settle points out, that the signs are in place and have been paid for but if, as we are given to understand, the idea is to roll this out across the rest of the borough it will result in a considerable cost which, at this moment in time, the council cannot afford.
I am told that when Mr King, the instigator of these 20mph schemes, addressed the council, he spoke for longer than is allowed and, when warned by the chairman that he had done so, still refused to stop talking.
I am told he is advocating a default speed limit of 20mph, with roads with higher limits being made the subject of orders to allow the higher limit. In other words, the opposite of the present situation. This would surely result in even higher costs because of the greater number of roads involved. Or is he going to have us driving at 20mph everywhere except on motorways?
No, in RodWorld – where all forms of motorised transport are banned, and even thinking about travelling anywhere faster than a donkey can walk is punishable by death – our current motorways will all become “cycling super-highways” with picnic stops every couple of miles.
In all fairness Inky it is the council who have made the final decision and not Rod King… maybe the council need to take a step backwards now and actually think about the implications, costs, benefit, non real benefit of the wider Warrington blanket roll out. Maybe they should put any future plans or decisions on hold until it has actually been PROVED that the Town Centre/Orford/Great Sankey changes really do make a difference and work. They say the pilot scheme did make a difference but did it really as may have just proved that people chose a different route thus reducing traffic and the number of minor collission or whatever. With a blanket roll out the option to divert and miss out an area will not be possible.
That’ll be fun, going up Poplars at 20.
Just moving the traffic to create more problems and deter people coming to Warrington.
Poplars is like Long Lane.
Does the 20mph limit apply to cyclists too? And if so, how is it to be enforced?
Once again, this Council has got it all wrong. When and why were the signs purchased? What does that say about the consultation period? Surely the signs required to enforce this system have to be erected. Does that not cost money which will be considerable seeing the number of roads in the scheme? Take a leaf out of the Scottish booklet. They have 20mph areas which are enforced as necessary by the use of 4 flashing lights in each corner of the 20mph sign. For example, when schools are opening and closing the lights flash. At 10 o’clock at night the lights are switched off. Our Councillors ought to be listening to their constituents and not imposing their ideas on an unwilling audience.