Village speedlimits 'ignored'

West Sussex County Council has formally enacted 20, 30, 40 and 50mph limits in the village with effect from Monday, July 23.

But Nyton Road resident John Penfold said the move would have no effect.

'Most of the traffic going past my house seems to ignore the speed limit anyway,' he stated.

'I live in an area which is supposed to be 40mph but there are some motorcyclists who have to be going past here at well over 100mph.

'They accelerate away from The Island restaurant and come out of the built up area of Aldingbourne going towards the A27.

'They kick on from the housing and they are absolutely flat out past here.'

Mr Penfold said the sight and sound of the speeding motorcycles was inflicted on long-suffering residents most weekday evenings and Sundays.

The bikers used Nyton Road as part of a circuit, which also passed through Oving and Drayton, on which to live out their dangerous TT fantasies.

'You would not believe the noise they make,' he added. 'It is absolutely ear-splitting. The situation has gone beyond a joke now.'

The new speed limits put in by the county council are:

n 20mph on the entire lengths of Glebe Close and Norton Lane;

n extending a 30mph limit on a length of Nyton Road from 864m south of its junction with Norton Lane westwards to its junction with the A29;

n 40mph limit on Nyton Road from 141m north of its Norton Lane junction southwards for 1,005m;

n 50mph on 400m of Nyton Road northwards from a point 141m north of its junction with Norton Lane.