ROAD chiefs have refused to introduce a 20mph speed limit for a Solihull street, despite a petition from residents over safety fears.Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council said police should instead meet with residents with a view to letting them monitor speeds.
And it would be included in any future borough-wide move to introduce 20mph limits, the council said.
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Two petitions of 87 signatures called for the restriction.
They said: “There is currently a concern regarding the speed in Ashleigh Road and the adjoining roads which present a nuisance and create a dangerous traffic hazard.”
It warned of ‘serious accidents’ at the junction of Ashleigh Road with Silhill Hall Road and The Crescent.
A SMBC report said there have been seven slight and one serious collisions in the last ten years at the junction.
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It said: “Historically, the road traffic collisions predominantly involve motorists travelling along Silhill Hall Road, and to a lesser extent The Crescent, ‘overshooting’ the junction and not realising that they are travelling through a crossroads.”
It said signs had made drivers ‘more aware’ of the junction and after a road hump was added. There were no further injury collisions.
It added a speed survey ‘indicated that the majority of motorists travel at a speed that is appropriate to the existing 30mph speed limit’.
And police said: “It is our understanding that the recommendations are that all 20mph limits are self enforcing by road humps and as this request is for the restriction without the humps, I would have to question its long term success.”
Yet it said it would ‘struggle’ to commit to enforcing speeds but suggested meeting with residents and possibly letting them monitor speeds.
The force said it ‘can not supply any recent supporting evidence to suggest priority should be given to Ashleigh Road over any other similar road of its type on the Borough’.
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