Safety review sees speed limit change at Taylorstown Rd

At their latest Public Sector Liaison meeting last Thursday night, councillors were presented with written details of the change from Jackson Minford of Roads Service Traffic Management.

They learned that the move follows a review of road safety in The Grange hamlet and that a number of traffic speed surveys had been carried out.

These showed that some motorists were travelling through the hamlet in excess of the existing 30mph limit and that the PSNI had subsequently carried out “necessary enforcement” along the road.

At present the 30mph speed limit starts some 240m from the junction of the Largy Road, extending to just beyond the junction of the Taylorstown Hill.

Mr Minford pointed out: “It is considered that the level of development at the Largy Road end is more typical of a road that would be subject to a 40mph limit and that the 30mph limit should commence closer to the more densely developed area near Grange Cottages.

“The proposal is, therefore, that a 40mph buffer limit should be introduced on the lesser developed area before reducing to 30mph on entry to the more developed section of The Grange”.