A SPEED limit in Spencers Wood is to be cut from 40mph to 30mph – a move a Shinfield councillor says is ‘well overdue’.
Wokingham Borough Lib Dem councillor Chris Johnson, who represents Shinfield South, said the plan was needed due to the number of new housing estates bringing more pedestrians.
He said: “We have a lot of roads that have now got housing estates on either side. We’ve got more and more junctions, we’ve got pedestrian traffic wanting to cross those roads.
“We’ve got facilities on both sides of roads where we’re going to get children crossing to go to school and so on. And they are roads that are still 40mph where we’ve been pressing for a 30mph limit.
“An example is Basingstoke Road through Three Mile Cross, Spencer’s Wood etc. It’s 10 years overdue to be dropped to a 30mph limit because of various developers causing it to be put back.”
But Matt Gould, a council highways officer, told him that the new speed limit had been given the “green light” and a Traffic Regulation Order bringing it into effect will soon be made.
He said: “The speed limits you’re referring to in Shinfield, around Three Mile Cross, Basingstoke Road etc – they have been given the green light for 30mph and the TRO will be made in approximately four weeks’ time.”
The order will be published in Wokingham Today in due course.
