HAS no one from Lartington Parish Council, which is going to install speed warning signs, ever driven through Skeeby, near Richmond, and had to slow to 20mph to climb the awful speed bumps there (Echo, July 21)?
Here is the answer to Lartington’s speeding problems!
Let Skeeby sell two or three, or all, of its humps to Lartington and then Skeeby could install speed matrix boards like so many other sensible communities.
These boards apply to all vehicles, not just cars. I am sure I am not the only person to realise that a motorbike or lorry or bus does not need to slow down to negotiate Skeeby’s badly designed humps. Who decided that matrix boards could not be used here?
Why are they not challenged? If I were on Skeeby Parish Council, I would be fighting to have the humps removed or full width sleeping policemen style ramps put in, or I would arrange for more cars to be parked on the roadside as in West Witton – there is no speeding possible there.
The main point of this letter is that the present Skeeby humps are NOT the best answer, but no one will admit that.
Howard Thomas, Carlton, Leyburn.
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