Reducing limit will not deter speeders

LETTER: I read with interest the comment made by Phil Crossland, assistant director for Highways and Transportation, after the death of Ben Somers on the Whitchurch Road.

He says that hopefully the speed limit will be reduced to 30mph by Christmas, what has that got to do with anything?

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You will still have the careful drivers doing 30mph and the boy-racers, etc, will still be using the right hand lane to do their 50/60mph.

I travel that road daily and the times that the normal traffic flow has to brake to let in the racers as they reach the end of their lane is constant. Even the traffic lights change whilst the cars push in front and we don't even get to move.

So what difference will changing the speed limit do? That lane is downright dangerous.

Ros Seddon

Shrewsbury