speed limits on 'the bends'...

[joko]

we have a few sets of the bends round by me...and all of them have a national speed limit sign ...yet all over the place they have painted the word SLOW on the road ...

it is pretty impossible to go 70 on these roads except on the occasional lengthy straight bit....but most people dont
it seems most poeple go about 40 on these roads so why not just make the speed limit on these roads about 40/50 and save the bother of painting slow all over the place?

surely allowing people to try to traverse these extremely bendy and narrow roads, edged largely by ditches or sometimes walls right up against them, is asking for trouble as some young boyracer idiot will try it ...

is there any logic to this?
cheers

[Mick-Talbot]

link to the road?

[R1Geezer]

we have answered you it's just you are not happy with the answer. The configuration of the road is not a factor when setting speed limits. The limit is set to national limit unless there is a reason why not. Being "too bendy" is not one of those reasons, you think it should be and 90 years of the highway code and road planning doesn't. I go with the latter. "Too bendy" is a subjective term anyway. There are very few roads that you an do 60 all the way along anyway should they all be lowered as a result?

[joko]

i cant seem to get a pic, google just wants me to download software, which i dont want to do...besides its kind of irrelevant...you know what kind of roads in general i am talking about so a pic - which even if it were extreme zigzags you would say looked fine to you, and you know it - so whats the point.? my question relates to those kinds of roads in general not a specific one - they were just examples.

r1 - at no point, until now, have you said what you have just said...that is an actual answer rather than an attack on my opinion...
i wanted to know why these things appear not to be considered, and whther it was just a standard thing etc...

and as for whether they should change them, then yes i think they should... 90 years of highway code rules equals 90 years of needless accidents, road rage and near misses, which tell me i may have a point...? and yes too bendy is subjective but when when a road is almost continuous zigzags around farmers fields, ditches either side, some very sharp, id say its the road planners duty to at least consider that when setting limits.
it appears to be a blanket speed limit simply because the road falls into the catagory of single carriageway in unbuilt up area.

you seem to be annoyed that i have had a thought and expressed an opinion on it, that you dont agree with... it is of no interest to me whether you agree or disagree with me...i did not ask the question to garner support...but to get answers...and regardless of the answers to my question, no matter what they are, whether logical, feasible lawful etc - i will still think, personally, that its too high...

[R1Geezer]

just tell us the road you are talking about, eg the a123 bewteen A and B for example then we can use google street level on every bend.