As the purple line on the map shows - Camden meets Barnet halfway down Ranulf Road. Barnet's new zone only covers areas of Barnet - so as soon as you cross the border - you are faced with some rather illogical 30mph signs.
As this happens halfway up the hill drivers are speeding up as they leave Barnet and enter our equally residential part of Camden.
We've just recieved a response from Camden street officers to our request to extend the 20mph zone as far as the Finchley Road. They aren't keen to act at the moment - mainly because the Barnet 20mph zone is a 6 month experiment. Also, Camden has a tradition of only going ahead with traffic schemes if a fair amount of engineering can be put in to support the scheme.As the Barnet scheme doesn't involve much engineering, I'm not sure this is an appropriate response, so we'll be going back to them.
Whilst people are speeding up to the corner of Ranulf Road we'll be arguing to cut speeds in this corner of Camden too.
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