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After many years of campaigning and many traffic accidents, people who reside in a Bedfordshire town have succeeded in getting the road limit reduced on their roads. The limit on the primary road thru the hamlet of Husborne Crawley will be reduced from 40mph to 30mph. A top speed of 20mph will be applied outside the hamlet college. The ruling could go on to affect all hamlets across Bedfordshire. Jess Minikin lives on the primary road in the hamlet and informed the BBC : "The new 30mph limit will have a big impact on folks living in Husborne Crawley. "We now have automobiles travelling thru the village at a velocity above 60mph," said Jess. "lots of us have hid entrances to our homes so there were a number of collisions concerning folk just trying hard to get out of and into their driveways. "The road is also really narrow and at some points, when 2 trucks pass one another, they really only have twenty centimetres to spare between them." Fiona Chapman, the Conservative Councillor for Husborne Crawley at Central Bedfordshire Council, announced : "The Executive Committee has concluded to take a look at their policy for speed boundaries all though all of Central Bedfordshire and design a road limit policy, instead of the current ad hoc basis. New research released today by the Road Safety research group counsels kids from poorer areas are much more likely to be victims of road traffic accidents. Analysts compared the postcodes of 120,000 kid victims of road accidents between 2004 and 2008, to appraise the danger of turning into a road casualty in 408 local authority areas. According to the research, the most risky area in Britain is Preston, where one kid in each 206 is probably going to be concerned in a road collision yearly. Kensington and Chelsea is the securest place in Britain, with a likelihood of just one in 1,158. Approximately nationally, one in 427 youngsters is wounded or finished in a road accident annually.
An accident ahead, or roadworks? Your auto has just joined a highway ( or state highway or Autobahn ) queue that stretches as way ahead as can clearly be seen. After 30 minutes crawling forward in a stop-start jam, all of a sudden you re-emerge into free-flowing traffic with no sign of anything that might have caused the interruption. Across the developed world and beyond, the phenomenon of the ghost traffic nightmare will have interrupted many long road journeys to and from holiday locations this month. The way this stop-go wave, which brings with it frustration for everybody from non-public motorists to freight hauliers, can form out of nothing is becoming one main topic of enquiry by the growing band of scientists and engineers who study traffic dynamics in the expectation of easing the way products and folk get around. Their research forms the root of a multibillion-dollar industry. Eddie Wilson, a teacher at the UK's Bristol school, takes as an example the primary route up the western side of Britain . On the M6 you can track individual stop-go waves rolling down the motorway for fifty or 60 miles, at a speed of roughly 12mph, he asserts. The whole highway from Birmingham to the Lake District can be stop-go. Scientists are starting to grasp the car flow conditions that are responsible to lead to a ghost jam, a. K. An a jamiton ( by analogy with soliton, a variety of wave ). Their work will help authorities control traffic in a fashion that cuts the danger of a queue with no cause, with benefits both to personal motorists and to business. Research into ghost jams is a part of a massive worldwide effort to apply technology and science to congestion reduction, at a point in time when public spending cuts have left most nations with little cash available for road building or dilating or indeed for public transport projects like new rail networks. Even where funds are available, land is less so. Estimates of the final cost of congestion, including wasted time and fuel, are in the area of $100bn ( 78bn, £64bn ) a year in the USA, and a corresponding amount in Europe. The CBI, Britain's employers' confederation, asserts the nation's economy loses £8bn ( $12bn, 9.7bn ) a year thru congestion a figure that's sure to double inside fifteen years on present trends. For too much time, Britain's roads have been a reason for disappointment and delays for our companies and commuters, says John Cridland, CBI assistant director-general. Now is the time for fresh thinking. We need a radical revamp of how we travel and manage our road system. Smart traffic management becomes imperative as our framework becomes more heavily used, claims Tom Robinson of Ricardo, a UK transport engineering company. We must employ existing roads more effectively. Ricardo is one of masses of firms across the planet enormous and little, investing heavily in research in intellectual transport systems. They go from tiny startups to IBM, the US-based PC giant which has made smart traffic a concern.
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