LOCAL organisations will now have a say on improving the safety of Crewe and Nantwich's roads after being invited to help set speed limits.
Cheshire County Council and the Highway Authority has established the Speed Limit Review (SLR) panel that will take into account various factors including the number of houses, shops, schools, pubs, garages and bus stops on a stretch of road.
It has also put together a points system to judge the appropriateness of a speed limit on any given route and follows a county council decision to put together an interim speed strategy while a national review takes place.
Approved by environment executive Andrew Needham last week, the SLR panel will now consider speed limits on specific routes beginning with A-roads.
"We have hammered out a criteria for setting speed limits using the best advice from a number of sources including the police and parish councils," said the chairman of the Speed Limit Review Panel, John Fraser
"We are confident this is a practical system that will work effectively to improve the safety of Cheshire's roads for pedestrians, motorists and cyclists."
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