OK! The thread has gone beyond timing on crossings, but here goes. Looking at getting transport planning more in line with communities.
We've got community support for a 20mph limit, parish wide. Including a trunk road (that does have two other 20mph limits).
What I've found in putting together the case, which we started after frequent complaints from the public about traffic in the town, was that if you engage with the public directly they are 90% in favour. If you do it indirectly via the internet, they are 50% in favour.
Engaging directly, the message was "this is a town, it is for everyone, not just drivers". Only rabid petrolheads disagreed.
Online, the trite old arguments that you find on anti-20mph websites were rolled out. My experience with Paul Smith was useful here...
Pancho helped me see that to get need to think sideways, think differently from the hegemony. And to persevere.
Our 20mph limit? Stuck in the molasses that is the TRO mechanism. Fingers crossed.