Cummingston Traffic Speeding

For the past few years, all year round, there is a noticeable disregard for the 30mph speed limit.

If all drivers of all types of vehicles & motor cyclists acknowledged the 30mph speed limit and drove with more care reading the road and not mobile phones, etc. it wouldn’t be necessary for residents to request a 20mph speed limit or witness unnecessary car accidents and stationary car damage.

Perhaps a few speed cameras installed might help and a few speed bumps?

Cummingston speeding.

As a resident of the village of Cummingston on the B9040 and along with other residents of the village, it is of concern to us all about the speed of traffic along the B9040. We have had numerous accidents in the village that can solely be attributed to excess speeding (the current speed limit is 30mph), and the speeding traffic is assuredly increasing in volume. The long straight road through the village has 40mph speed limits at each end - one at the Burghead end (west) and one at the Hopeman end (east). Even if traffic on these 40mph stretches…

Cummingston (Hopeman & Burghead) Speeding

Currently there is a 30 mph limit through Cummingston. On either end of the village are short stretches between both Hopeman & Burghead that are 40mph with Hopeman then dropping to 30mph. This adds to the speed with which vehicles drive through Cummingston as we are a ”straight-line” village which seems to encourage drivers to just keep going at 40 & much more.This makes it not only difficult but hazardous at times to manoeuvre in & out of driveways & sideroads. During periods of heavy rainfall a lot of hill run-off causes flooding down the road from higher up the…

Cummingston Traffic Speeding

Cummingston speeding.

Cummingston (Hopeman &amp; Burghead) Speeding

Cummingston (Hopeman & Burghead) Speeding