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Jul 2023
Stray Views: All Harrogate district schools should have 20mph speed limits
Letters
Stray Views is a weekly column giving you the chance to have your say on issues affecting the Harrogate district. It is an opinion column and does not reflect the views of the Stray Ferret. Send your views to letters@thestrayferret.co.uk.
I read your article "Highways boss defends North Yorkshire speed limit review" with interest, especially after the recent incident where children on their way to school in Rossett were hit by a car mounting the pavement.
Rather than the onus being on residents to prove that their school needs to be in a 20mph zone, surely the answer is to have a blanket policy where all schools have a mandatory proposed 20mph zone to be enforced in time for the September term, with an appeals process for those who are against it. That way the burden is on the (presumably) commercial interested parties to prove why there shouldn't be one, rather than on anxious parents and children to prove why there should.
The claim that not many children are knocked down on their way to school is erroneous - according to the Department of Transports own figures 2,456 children were either knocked down or killed on their way to/from school last year alone.
Come on Councillor Duncan, surely we should put children's safety first? Even one death in North Yorkshire would be one too many.
Colin Mannion, Boroughbridge
Water companies should improve productivity
There has been a lot of noise about the problems that water companies are having and I suspect that there are a combination of reasons why they are losing money.
One of them may be the productivity of their teams in the field.
Over the last few weeks one of our neighbours has had a lot of work done to sort out problems with their drains. Virtually every day one or two Yorkshire Water vans appear and the staff sit in the vans for anything up to an hour at a time eating, drinking, reading newspapers and certainly not working.
Clearly leakage is a problem nationally but it is not just underground.
Nigel Law, Harrogate
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