"Roland Perry" wrote in message
news:1108899955.8c6742684f85a5f7a4b62860409ce80e@t eranews...
In message , at 11:22:21
on Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Richard J. remarked:
A road is a "restricted
road", and therefore subject to a 30 mph limit, if it has street lamps
not more than 200 yards apart.

I think there's a minimum length too, something like half a mile;
streetlights for less than that don't count.

So you could be driving through a
village with, say, 3 street lamps at 200-yard intervals.

Or indeed one with lamps at 205yd intervals

Exactly: signposting should be explicit, not subtle.


This would be
automatically subject to a 30 mph limit,

Which wouldn't. You need to carry a tape measure when driving at night!

but it would be illegal for the
highway authority to clarify the situation by putting repeater 30 mph
signs, which are banned on restricted roads with street lighting.
(Unless there's been a change in the law recently. I've seen plates in
Reading containing a repeater 30 and a camera logo.)

How absurd that signs which would clarify the limit should be deemed to be
illegal. What a pathetic situtation :-(

Essex has several villages with 30mph repeaters (the small round ones).