Castle Terrace SOS (Sick of Speeders)

The residents of Castle Terrace, Berwick upon Tweed are sick of the speeding traffic in our street. These are some of the problems we currently face:

1. A daily gamble to safely exit our drives.
2. Drivers coming off the A1 and think they are still in a 60mph zone.
3. Drivers going too fast to safely negotiate the bend at the station end of the street.
4. Lorries and cars overtaking parked cars narrowing the road dangerously.
5. Cyclists been squeezed into a gauntlet.
6. Pedestrians taking risky crossings.
7. Parents rushing to get children to school on time.
8. Boy racers.

Castle Terrace residents have formed a group to take up the issue of speeding in the area. Our local Councillor arranged a speed survey and in the week surveyed, the results unsurprisingly confirmed our concerns of speeding.

Here are the highlights

1. Roughly half of all drivers broke the speed limit.
2. Nearly 4000 vehicles exceeded the speed limit
3. The top speed recorded was 75.6mph
4. 40 mph plus is exceeded regularly

The survey was taken during a school holiday otherwise the numbers may have been higher.