Road Signs and Markings: Speed Limits
Commons · Question 97934 · Tabled 8 Dec 2025 · Department for Transport · Official record
Answered 11 Dec 2025
Question
Asked by Helen Morgan
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the answer of 4 December 2025 to question 95755, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of lamp columns as speed limit repeaters.
Answer
Answered by Simon Lightwood, 11 Dec 2025
The Department has made no recent assessment of the adequacy of lamp columns as speed limit repeaters. The presence of street lighting in a 30 mph limit acts as the speed limit repeater, this has been law for over 70 years and all drivers are required to ...