P-06-1389 Introduce a 30mph limit on the trunk road through the villages of Eglwys Fach and Ffwrnais - Correspondence from the petitioner to the Committee, 19 July 2024

Thanks for your prompt email. Here is our reply for the Petitions Committee. We look forward to their recommendations in September.

Thank you for your email with Ken Skates response to our petition. Since  "Priority is now being given to guidance for speed limits on roads where people live" we should be being given priority, as we do live on this road and we have children crossing the road in 40mph and 60mph to         get to the school bus. So we would, again petition that we be met/ consulted about the situation here. The road in question should not be     considered  "other roads" for which 'guidance will follow". 

We are pleased that Minister Skates is 'keen to listen' - though we have been trying get the Transport Minster to listen  for 15 years now. Other        than responding to the National listening Programme' about the speed limits in Wales, please could he advise how we can be heard.

We understand that the Petitions committee will meet in September to discuss this, so by then we should have a good idea of the new policies       against which a decision can be made. We would therefore hope that following that meeting, actual action to reduce the speed limit on the A487      through our villages will be undertaken , and would request that the committee ask for a  timescale for this. We would therefore like to keep this        petition open until such date as this situation is resolved.

Many thanks for your time

Ruth Stevenson