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Islington Tribune - LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Published: 24 July 2009
 
Safer zones?

• I COULDN’T agree more with Brian Potter and his objection to carpeting Islington with 20mph hour zones (Are 20mph bans really safer? July 17).
The arguments for such a measure are both environmentally and financially dubious. Islington does not need yet another forest of signs and enormous 20mph indicators painted across our streets. They are ugly and there are so many signs now that I am amazed drivers pay any attention to them at all. Advanced thinking now is that reducing road signage makes drivers more cautious.
Added to this is the enormous cost of installing these signs and zones, plus the costs of the required public consultations, just at a time when our council should be more prudent with taxpayers’ money and not wasting it on such unwanted schemes.
These zones should only be introduced outside buildings, such as schools, where there are large numbers of children, not imposed on us by Green councillors in search of headlining initiatives.
Tim Newark
TaxPayers’ Alliance, N5



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