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Public can have their say on plans to introduce 20mph speed limit on road. What do you think?

Hester Rose: Absolute waste of time the whole of Redhouse, Downhill and Town End Farm was made 20mph, nobody takes any notice of it at all, they use all the roads as their own personal race track, waste of time and money.

June Potts: Don’t bother waste of money, will be totally ignored.

Colin Coulson: Old school hand held speed gun was in use on Dykelands Road today.

Paul Emerson: It could be 5mph, it makes no difference. Everyone knows there are no police randomly checking speeds round the city. There a handful of fixed cameras and the police mobile speed camera vans only go to the same (safe) moneymaking spots everyday like New Durham Road, Springwell Road and Dame Dorothy. The rest of the city you can drive like Lewis Hamilton knowing no chance of being done.

Paul Lynn: f you kept cars and pedestrians apart there wouldn't be any need for speed limits like this. It's a failure of the highways department and poor planning that makes this necessary.

Alan Common: Don't bother no body will take any notice.

Mary Farhy: Well we couldn't believe the 20mph on part of St Luke's road, up on Prestwick Road it says 30mph, surely it should have been the other way around, going into side roads?

Stephen Loughton: It's made no difference at all where I live. Waste of money.

Brenda Loftus: Want to get on Pennywell Road they think it’s 200mph.

Bob Simpson: We need more speed cameras around all the estates, the more the better. When they catch somebody speeding all the fines pay for the cameras that are installed.

Peter Hill: The people that care will do 20mph but the folk that don’t currently stick to limits won’t care and still fly along, same happened in Washington, the people that speed simply ignore it and law abiding people stick to it so it’s zero deterrent really.