Brockley Life
Speedy Gonzales
In many areas around Brockley there are roads with a 20 mph speed limit in place. Lewisham Council have spent a lot of money putting up signs, road painting and radar displays. The sad thing is that this speed limit is not enforced.
On Hilly Fields Crescent there are often kids playing on the adjacent park and elderly people wanting to cross the road. Yet, this road seems to attract the boy racers. Using a stop watch and measured timings I quickly established that most people travel that stretch of road at an average of 35 mph, even though there is a 20 mph limit in force.
Will it take a road traffic fatality to occur before the police come out of their central castle in Lewisham and actually enforce these 20 mph speed limits?
