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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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