to want traffic to obey the 30mph speed limit outside our house.

[Pallando]

Just that really. We live on a B road on the edge of a small village. Traffic rarely obeys the speed limit (when I drive through at 30 I often get someone right up my arse/overtaking unsafely) and by the time it passes us is often travelling at 50mph or more.

I am a bit fed up of the attitudes about this. The PCSO asked me where I had lived before (large village / small town) and then said "Urban people are always surprised by the speeding when they come here". Other people have said things like "it's always been like that", "It used to be a 40 till recently" (if they were obeying 40 it would be a start). I have also had an email from the Police basically saying that they are too busy doing important things instead.

The worst bit is that there is no footpath for the first 150-ish m of journey on our walk to school, and a lot of the verge is difficult to walk on (ditches, holes, 3 foot high nettles in summer). Also in the summer the crops in the field opposite our house are well over 8ft high, so the speeding cars cannot see round the corner.

I don't think IABU, but some of the attitudes I have come across makes me think some people think I am a whinging newcomer. Needed a rant.

The community speed watch is not the answer to the problems in every village. The police have asked a village near here to stop recording speeding motorists because they can't cope with the results.

Can you lobby the council to extend the pavement so there is at least somewhere for pedestrians to walk?

Have tried asking the Parish Council about extending the pavement. It would cost over £50K ! I think their yearly income is just a couple of thousand.

Might be hard to take pictures though as one hand is holding my eldest's hand and the other is holding her bags

So do after she has gone into school!! I am sure people don't just speed at school times to be awkward.

Realistically your options are through the Parish Council who will be able to apply for grants towards this. Ours did and over the past few years has increased the number of flashing 30mph signs through grants. We also do community speed watch which may come in useful when there's a development planned and the developers can put some money towards the traffic calming. Agree with many PPs that it's people not actively driving as though pedestrians are likely to be around as rurally people forget about them in my experience. YANBU to want traffic to obey the speed limit of course. Our council has stickers to put on wheelie bins saying "slow down" in a red speed limit sign. Everyone one the main roads in the villages seems to have them. Obviously that's only bin day but that 1 out of the 5 school days.