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Tuesday, May 16, 1972
NO CHANGE IN SPEED LIMIT
On Cotton Tree Drive And Garden Road
The speed limit on Cotton Tree Drive and Garden Road remains
at 30 miles per hour, a Transport Department spokesman said today.
The decision was made in a recent review following suggestions
that the present speed limit on these roads might be raised.
The spokesman said: "A detailed study by the Public Works
Department (Highways Office), the Police Traffic Branch and the Transport
Department indicated that it is inadvisable to raise the speed limit."
Garden Road and Cotton Tree Drive are district distributor roads
which have been designed to serve adjacent development and to collect and
distribute traffic from and to the numerous roads serving the Peak and
Mid-Levels residential areas.
To serve these purposes, the spokesman said, Cotton Tree Drive
which is only half a mile in length and routed one-way uphill, has no less
than 13 points of access,
Fifty percent of the vehicles using this road quite properly
have to weave from one lane to another as they enter or leave the road,
"To allow vehicles to travel faster through this heavy volume of
weaving traffic would substantially increase the risk of accidents," the
spokesman added.
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