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<\/p>\n“DfI is looking to slow everyone else down, but speed up HGVs.”<\/p>\n
20mph sign (Image: Getty )<\/p>\n
A Stormont proposal to speed up HGV lorries has been criticised as “totally stupid” amid concerns of “illegal” road signs in Royal Hillsborough.<\/a><\/p>\n Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council’s<\/a> regeneration and growth committee unanimously reacted against a Department for Infrastructure proposal on new speed limits for Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n The chamber heard further concerns of illegal speed signs being put up in a Co Down<\/a> village with the potential for drivers to be falsely alerted.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Water tests reveal NI council recreation lakes may have closed due to sewage bacteria<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n READ MORE: Concern of Irish Football Association no ‘buy in’ to Ulster Hall of Fame<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Downshire West DUP<\/a> Alderman Allan Ewart said: “There are road signs in Royal Hillsborough for 20mph, that I think are illegal and were put up about a year ago. Should we be in touch with DfI about this?<\/p>\n “What is to stop someone putting up a fake road sign for 90mph? What are we going to do about it?”<\/p>\n A report to the committee shows that DfI is proposing to introduce more 20mph zones and lowering national speed limits on single rural roads and dual carriageways.<\/p>\n However, it is also proposing to increase the speeds of HGV drivers. The 14 week public consultation will close on April 22.<\/p>\n Downshire East UUP Alderman<\/a> James Baird added: “I would say that the current national speed limits are adequate and that DfI would be better spending their time fixing the roads and potholes.<\/p>\n “To increase HGVs is just totally stupid. DfI is looking to slow everyone else down, but speed up HGVs.<\/p>\n “They are currently restricted to go 10mph slower than the national road speed.<\/p>\n “We would need to be very cautious on this proposal.”<\/p>\n A council officer responded: “We are aware of the 20mph road signs in Royal Hillsborough and contacted has been made on behalf of the council with a complaint reported.<\/p>\n “I will note on our consultation response to DfI that we are unanimous in not wanting HGVs to speed up.”<\/p>\n For all the latest news, visit the Belfast Live homepage <\/strong>here<\/a> and sign up to our daily newsletter<\/a> here.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“DfI is looking to slow everyone else down, but speed up HGVs.” 20mph sign (Image: Getty ) A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[84491,6408,83641,1144,285,16,15719,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-809307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-department-for-infrastructure","9":"tag-dup","10":"tag-lisburn-city-and-castlereagh-district-council","11":"tag-northern-ireland","12":"tag-politics","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-ulster-unionist-party","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116185899174566899","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}