The Highways Dept. recently painted some signs on the road coming into the village from Ipswich. These comprised a 30 in a white ring and SLOW. However, the PC believed that these had been put in place to correspond to where the old 30MPH sigh was before the position was changed to be further out of the village. This was taken up with Highways who made comments regarding the correctness of the placements. However, following representations by the Parish Clerk, we noted that a new 30 sign had been painted on the road to correspond with the new position of the 30 limit sign.
This would seem to be a much better position, that is now reinforced by the sign further down the road.
Secondly, at the recent meeting a question was asked regarding the lack of a white line down the middle of the road in and around the village. We have received the following information from Highways - which corresponded to the comment made by Perter Belfield, the County Councillor for the village, at the recent meeting:
Dear Mrs Frost,
With regards to your request for road markings. We can only provide centre line road markings where the road surface is 5.5m wide. This is to help prevent cars over running the verge (if they drive to the centre line & are wider than their side of the road). I suspect that most of the road in question is below 5.5m wide.
In my experience the lack of a centre line encourages people to slow down, by providing a line it implies that there is enough room for you to drive through (so no need to slow down), as we both know this isn't the case on the road through Tuddenham.
I would appreciate your comments,
Regards,
Tony
Tony Buckingham
Area Engineer
Highway Network Management
Area Team - East
County Buildings
Street Farm Road
Saxmundham
IP17 1AL
