Surveys underway to see if more High Barnet roads need 20mph speed limits to make it safer for motorists and pedestrians

After requests from residents Barnet Council is carrying out a speed survey in Salisbury Road -- part of the route of the 384 bus service -- to see if it justifies the introduction of a 20mph speed limit.

 

A survey is also being conducted a few hundred yards away to see if a 20mph speed limit should be introduced on the much busier Stapylton Road where pedestrians have complained that the traffic can be too fast to cross in safety.

Stapylton Road by-passes Barnet High Street and is a heavily used link between the roundabout at the Black Horse public house and St Albans Road.

When parking spaces are full, the curve on the carriageway makes it difficult to see fast approaching vehicles.   

Numerous roads in and around High Barnet – especially where there are schools nearby – already have 20mph restrictions.

Barnet Council said residents asked for a 20-mph speed limit in Salisbury Road because they consider speeding is an issue especially given the narrowness of the carriageway when cars are parked on both sides of the road.

If the surveys show speeding is a problem, there will be a public consultation before decisions are made.

Many residents still oppose the use of the upper section of Salisbury Road -- from Alston Road to Stapylton Road -- by buses on the 384 Edgware to Cockfosters bus route.

The lower section of Salisbury Road – from Stapylton Road to High Street – is largely one-way but much busier and is it is on the route of five bus services – 234 (Spires-Archway); 326 (Spires-Brent Cross); 383 (Finchley Memorial Hospital); 384 (Edgware-Cockfosters); and 399 (Hadley Wood).

Lowering the existing 30mph limit on Salisbury and Stapylton Roads would extend the 20mph limit which already applies in Alston Road (from the junction with Marriott Road to Salisbury Road) and the 20mph limits on Wentworth Road and Byng Road which serve Foulds and Christ Church primary schools and the Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospice.

Another group of busy roads where a 20mph limit has been introduced includes Mays Lane, from the junction with Chesterfield Road to Barnet Lane and Barnet Lane from the junction with Underhill almost to the junction with Totteridge Village.

A 20mph limit also applies in Fairfield Way, Grasvenor Avenue, Sherrards Way and Western Way.