OSTRICH-LIKE OBSTINANCE OVER SPEED LIMITS

By Damien Hill

IF you ever needed any evidence of the ostrich-like obstinance running rife among council officers in Cumbria, then read on.

Highly-paid Traffic Management wonks on Woeful and Farcical Council have just managed to hustle more than 20 new speed limits past a nodding dog committee of councillors in Penrith.

30mph and 40mph zones will be introduced or extended in the Eden area of Cumbria – e.g Alston; Appleby; Warcop, Tirril and Dockray etc – not that speeding drivers will give a toss.

Council officers know only too well that you can have as many speed limit signs as you want – they are as pointless as tits on a fish if Crumbria Police has no interest in ENFORCING them.

PROSECUTIONS for speeding in the sticks in Cumbria simply don’t happen – which makes a MOCKERY of a council spaffing taxpayer money on new signs and limits in the pretence it will make a difference.

At least one councillor, Lady Hilary Carrick for the Tories, had the brains to try and put the brakes on the flawed scheme.

She reminded the council’s Traffic Mis-Management team that new speed limit signs are utterly pointless without enforcement.

Not that this rare outbreak of commonsense stopped the council from bulldozing ahead anyway.

The traffic management team leader, of 11 years standing, replied loftily: “Hopefully with all these improvements we are doing we shouldn’t have any speeding problems…”

Problem solved!

Hat tip: The Cumberland & Westmorland Herald.