johnhoppy
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The new speed limits will do nothing to deter the idiot overtaking outside a school. A good driver will drive according to the conditions and circumstances prevailing at the time. Sometimes the legal speed limit is too fast and at other times it can be too restrictive. The problem is that the council take the decision for you under penalty of being fined and having points on your license, and the idiots generally don’t get caught.
Who decides to alter the speed limits? Is it a faceless bureaucrat determined to slow us all down at all costs. Today’s cars are are more more reliable and safer than they have ever been, and yet almost every dual carriageway in the area has been reduced to a limit of 50mph. This has the effect if creating queues of cars moving at a funeral pace which can not be good for road safety. Has there been as assessment, or consultation on of traffic flows and accidents on these roads where the speed limit has changed? The new limits will have no effect whatsoever on those who break the limits to an extent that they cause accidents, but will no doubt be a money spinner in penalising those of us who slightly exceed the limits.
This has happened in Gwersyllt also. 70 has become 50 on the dual carriagway and 40 has become 30 by Bryn Alun School. No notice…it has just appeared.
In defense of Wrexham.com, every councillor has a right of reply on these forums as has every one of us. I don’t suppose they are hovering at their computer waiting to respond to every comment on here as it occurs, but if they feel strongly enough about anything they would do so.
The main problem as far as I can see with regard to the influx of Eastern European workers is that it usually drags down the wages of the native population (us). I am retired now, but when the Poles first came to Wrexham after Poland’s entry into the EC I did not receive a pay increase for 5 years, and I am convinced that this was due to the availability of cheap labour. They are entitled to come here and I have no argument with that, but when they come solely for work for a few years and live cheaply in multiple occupancy accommodation they can obviously live more cheaply that you and I who have families to support. I do not pretend to have any solution to this as you can not blame employers as if you complain there are plenty more on the next bus from Warsaw or wherever to take your place.
I must admit that I am not a great fan of the William Aston Hall. I recently attended the Max Boyce show there and I found the accoustics to be poor, and a loop system for Hearing Aids appeared to be non-existant (is there one?). It would take some persuading for me to spend my money on another show there.
There seems to be a conspiracy at the moment to reduce the speed limits some of our local dual carriageway’s. A similar reduction in speed limit seems to be trialed near Plas Teg at Pontblyddyn. I know there have been accidents at Pontbyddyn, but this is because of vehicles going far too fast. If people don’t obey exising speed limits why should they obey new ones. It seems a shame that the few roads built to a decent standard around here are restricted, instead of improving the parts inbetween. At the moment it is legal to go faster on Summerhill Road than on the dual carriageway at Park wall!!
@BenjaminM 9016 wrote:
According to CAMRA, 26 pubs are closing each week, a figure likely to treble in the next 12 months because most of them have not left the 1980’s.
Is she responsible for those as well? How does the closure of 2 pubs (sorry, one) in Ruthin become a disaster?
I am afraid my friend, that is, as they say, business, where the strong survive and the back street boozer goes to the wall.With respect, we are not talking about back street boozer’s here. Would you call the Wynnstay a back street boozer? The fact is that the likes of Weatherspoons can sell their beer for less than the average publican can buy it at, especially those tied to pub companies. I would call this unfair competition myself. Ms Booth did not help matters with her grand ideas.
She also owned the Castle Hotel and the Anchor in Ruthin. As a result of her hotels going out of business The Castle was sold to Weatherspoons, who’s business policy is to price their products to drive other licensed premises to the wall. The Anchor (no doubt as an indirect result of Wetherspoons) has now been sold to Ruthin School to be converted to student accomodation. The Anchor has been a hotel/pub for over 200 years and a historic North Wales hostelry has been lost for ever. Ms Booth may have given Wrexham some fun for a short period, but she has been disastrous for the Hotel and catering industry in this area.
