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With the growing mania for reducing the speed limit on perfectly good rural A and B roads from NSL to 50, 40 or even 30, we find an increasing number of tiny turnings off these roads marked with NSL signs, even where they are patently of a far worse standard than the main road.

This one off the B3233 in Devon really must take the biscuit:

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Is that real??

It isnt even a proper junction (dropped curb rather than "Junction" IYSWIM)

I just have this vision in my head of some anal retentive jobsworth installing that NSL sign with a completly streight face!

( a bit like the H&S notice I saw recently where, presumably, some jobsworth had (with a similarly streight face) decided that self employed people who had the misfortune to croak themselves in a fatal industrial accdent had no legal obligation to make a report to the HSE! )

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shouldnt there be one on the other side too ?

Actually, I dont know if I would want to go down that road at *any* speed!

The state of the track, the way it sort of curves into obscurity and the HP Lovecraftesque nature of the vegitation on each side would *defintaly* have me looking for an alternative route!

looks like a "Road to Hell" to Me!

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I guess the sign is there mainly for the speed limit sign on the other side?

I'll have to get pictures sometime of here.
A352 = wide 2 lane single carriageway, .
East Knighton Lane = single track country lane - note the T junction is actually a hairpin bend with a junction, .

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Andrew.

Beauty is definitely in the eye of the beholder. I saw that and thought "green lane!" The NSL sign is brilliant because it is evidence that the road can be driven and not one lost to LA incompetence.

I wanna take my tonka toy and play

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Will

This lane leads to nowhere in particular....
off of this superbly crafted trunk road.....

which is 40 mph monitored by a set of monitron speed cams!
On busy days it leads to this:

The turning I have shown is just above the green van. There is another turn on the right which has most of the houses situated on it, which is a 40 limit, and looks like this:

Can you imagine chancing this at more than 10 mph?

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...and on clear days there's a Scam Van parked just around the corner at the far end of the straight piece of road so that as you're accelerating out of the 40 zone you get snapped for that even though there's no safety reason for the van being there (especially not if you see it, slam on and the chap behind who's also trying to get to a decent travelling speed whacks into you. This didn't happen to me, but I did get "zapped" here doing 48 after crawling past the other cameras.)

First points in 8 years. Still makes me mad! Especially as 1/2 mile later I was tailgated badly and someone overtook with a vehicle coming the other way that caused me to brake heavily. Were there traffic cops anywhere? Sure you can answer that.

I now make a point of crawling through here whenever I go on my jollies to the lakes purely because I don't trust that I will be unfairly zapped. I don't trust the Scammers at all so I'm afraid I probably contribute to the congestion problem, Ernest. [/img][/quote]

But you could possibly have a furball of a time on a Mountain Bike there


Perhaps fun on a motorbike

Or maybe it ist there lest a Sat Nav tell you to drive down there

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Don't complain too loudly. There has already been a suggestion the the NSL should be 40mph unless signed otherwise.

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Quite. The title of the thread is wrong really. There's nothing wrong with NSL country lanes. Instead there's plenty wrong with well aligned safe and trunk routes imposed out of politics and blind faith.

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just another one to add.

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