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To: Department of Transport

Stop the Casualties and Deaths on Rural Roads

Lower the speed limit on rural roads to 40mph and where is it is more residential or near farms and stables, 30mph. Drivers need to share the roads with vulnerable users.

Why is this important?

Our rural roads are becoming lethal to everyone . Many have no pavements.Both drivers, horseriders, cyclists, horses, pedestrians are being killed or injured on a regular basis. Animals are also getting slaughtered on the road such as horses, donkeys, dogs. Outside some stables many rural roads are 60mph and horses have to get across the road. Some rural roads have become residential after farms are becoming family homes and yet the road can be 60mph. Many parents do not allow their children to walk along the country roads as the roads are so fast., and there is an obesity epidemic. Elderly and disabled people struggle to walk on the roads to get to their letterbox. Commuters risk their lives every time they walk to the station or bus stop. Massive HGVS and coaches now use narrow country lanes adding to the hazard. It is time for change.

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Updates

2016-09-12 22:00:15 +0100

25 signatures reached

2014-12-22 21:00:25 +0000

10 signatures reached