Cllr James Tobin posed the question at Tuesday’s night’s
town council meeting as highways issues were being discussed.
He said: “I’d like to know why there aren’t more of the flashing
30mph signs locally.
“There’s the one near the Woodlands but in no other areas of
Llangollen. Why can’t there be one near the Pengwern play area?”
Town clerk Gareth Thomas said: “We raised this with Denbighshire
County Council last year and were told there was no chance of having flashing signs
because of the cost.”
Mr Thomas then suggested that in other areas there had been
community campaigns in which local residents had donned high-visibility jackets
to monitor speeding cars, passing on the details to the police.
He added: “Maybe that is something we could do and involve
the local schoolchildren.”
The mayor, Cllr Bob Lube, said he believed one of the
residents’ campaigns the town clerk was referring to had taken place at Petrefeolas.
But he said: “I suspect that somebody going past a 30mph
sign isn’t going to be put off by a flashing 30mph sign.”
The town clerk agreed to check out the possibility of more
flashing signs with the county council.
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