{"id":27114,"date":"2018-08-10T11:41:26","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T10:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=27114"},"modified":"2018-08-10T11:41:26","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T10:41:26","slug":"west-midlands-police-tackle-speeding-drivers-on-20mph-zone-near-cannon-hill-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/10\/west-midlands-police-tackle-speeding-drivers-on-20mph-zone-near-cannon-hill-park\/","title":{"rendered":"West Midlands Police tackle speeding drivers on 20MPH zone near Cannon Hill Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

Traffic officers will be putting the breaks on speeding motorists near a popular city park. West Midlands Police are in a 20mph zone to catch speeding drivers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are approximately 1,500, roads with a speed limit of 20mph in the city with the council adding another 450 next month. West Midlands Police\u00a0have clocked speeds of 63mph in a 20mph.<\/p>\n

More than 920 motorists were caught for breaking the limits, from January 1, 2017, until June 30, 2018.<\/p>\n

The 20mph zones are already up and running in the inner city areas of Ward End, Bordesley Green, Small Heath, Ladywood, Highgate and Hockley, as well as the city centre, Moseley and Kings Heath.<\/p>\n

And between now and the end of July, the 20 mph limits are being rolled out across Edgbaston, Harborne, Selly Oak and Bournville.<\/p>\n

It means much of the area within the outer ring road, the number 11 bus route, will be enclosed by 20 mph speed limits.<\/p>\n

The measures are designed to increase road safety and make streets more attractive to pedestrians and cyclists, ease congestion and reduce pollution in the city.<\/p>\n

According to research half of people hit by a car at 30 mph will die, compared to just 10 per cent at the lower speed.<\/p>\n

The operation has ended and the team has caught a whopping 52 people breaching the 20mph limit on Russell Road in just two-and-a-half-hours, which he called \u2018standard\u2019.<\/p>\n

The highest speed was 44mph and a worrying number of those caught were private hire drivers.<\/p>\n

PC Hudson said \u201cThere were about eight to 10 private hire drivers which is a worry as they are generally better behaved than that.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is standard every time we come to Russell Road, we get the same amount of speeders.<\/p>\n

\u201cRussell Road is high risk and one of a number that the council are looking at to bring the speed down.\u201d<\/p>\n

So despite the signs and enforcement- 20mph is not clearly plenty for some drivers.<\/p>\n

Mr Malik, 30, an odd job man, said: \u201cIt\u2019s good, safety is the main thing.The police are doing a great job.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone is going at a good speed.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is going to take time for people to learn to adjust their speeds as more roads become 20mph limits.<\/p>\n

PC Steve Hudson said \u201cWe need to get the word out there because at the moment, we\u2019ve got 1,500 live 20mph roads in Birmingham and there will be more than 450 coming out in South Birmingham.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to take time. The first batch went live in Oct 2016 and it was six months before we did enforcement.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRussell Road is used as a cut-through by many motorists from South Birmingham into the city centre.\u201d<\/p>\n

PC Steve Hudson said \u201cIt\u2019s a narrow road with old traditional houses. It won\u2019t allow for any more engineering work to slow motorists down such as putting in mini roundabouts or keep left bollards. There isn\u2019t room.\u201d<\/p>\n

We need to educate people who use this road to slow down then people behind them will slow down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Traffic officers will be putting the breaks on speeding motorists near a popular city park. West Midlands Police are in a 20mph zone to catch speeding drivers. There are approximately 1,500, roads with a speed limit of 20mph in the city with the council adding another 450 next month. West Midlands Police\u00a0have clocked speeds of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1225,"featured_media":27115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,37,3,112],"tags":[264,1397,1398,1399,1356],"class_list":["post-27114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-local-news","category-news","category-top-stories","tag-birmingham","tag-cannon-hill-park","tag-pc-steve-hudson","tag-russell-road","tag-west-midlands-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}