A Conservative councillor is backing a petition signed by local residents calling for a 20mph zone in Woburn Sands.
David Hopkins, Conservative councillor for the Danesborough and Walton Ward, is backing a petition signed by over 400 local residents calling for a 20mph zone to cover the Bow Brickhill Road, Hardwick Road, and the Leys areas of the town.
The signatures have been collected by local residents and passed to Cllr David Hopkins for presentation at a Milton Keynes City Council meeting.
The petition has been signed by 411 local people, including more than 170 residents who actually live on either The Leys, Hardwick Road, Bow Brickhill Road or on Tidbury Close, Hardwick Place, Hardwick Mews and Woodland Way which adjoin those routes.
The councillor said: "Reducing the speed limit from 30MPH to 20MPH on these busy roads would benefit all residents of Woburn Sands and its neighbouring communities through making these roads less attractive to speeding through traffic and rat runners, decreasing traffic volumes, increasing road safety for all, encouraging cyclists back onto the roads and children to all or cycle to local school with knock on positive health consequences for all, reducing air pollution locally and reducing the stressful local disruption and traffic noise."
He also added that the speed limit would 'benefit a local children’s nursery (Larchfield Day Nursery) with improved road safety and again reduced noise and air pollution'.
The petition is set to be presented to Milton Keynes City Council at Full Council on 15th March.
