Speed limit slashed
THE SPEED limit on a busy local road is to be cut.
Councillors this week took the decision to extend the 30mph limit on Blackness Road — which ends near the Baron's Hill junction — all the way to the Springfield turn-off. This stretch was formerly a 40mph area.
Members of West Lothian Council's community safety committee rubber-stamped the amendment on Tuesday.
The change is required
following developers McCarthy and Stone's successful bid to build retirement homes immediately west of the junction.
Extension of the 30mph limit was a condition built into their planning consent.
The firm will pick up the tab for all works associated with the alteration. Local councillor Tom Kerr said: "There will now be three road junctions within a couple of hundred yards and the extension of the 30mph speed limit is appropriate. Indeed the McCarthy & Stone development makes it a necessity."
Lothian and Borders Police also
supported the amendment to the speed limit on Blackness Road from a road safety point of view.
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