Perthshire villagers push for local speed limits to be lowered in bid to curb dangerous driving

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Residents of Balbeggie are attempting to put pressure on the local authority to lower speed limits in and around the village as concern grows drivers are routinely ignoring those already in place.Motorists are supposed to slow down to 30mph before they pass through the village but a local group says the limit is being regularly broken and is now pressing for the limit to be lowered further to 20mph to try and deter drivers from barrelling along at excessive speeds.The group has started a petition asking Perth and Kinross Council to make the change as well introduce new 40mph “buffer” zones on all approaches to the village and install a roundabout at its south end where the A94 splits with the B953.They would also like to see chicanes introduced on the A94 at the north end of the village and bollards reinstated at both ends to reduce the width of the road and restrict flows further.Local resident Kevin Brown said last week the problem of speeding traffic has been getting “steadily worse” over the years and a growing number of people now think PKC needs to introduce further traffic calming measures before the planned Cross Tay Link Road (CTLR) is finished.“You can go out any time of the day and stand for 10 to 15 minutes and someone will fly past you doing well over the speed limit – it’s quite shocking, actually,” he told the PA.“I go out walking and running quite regularly and just crossing the road can be quite frustrating because of how long it takes with the volume of traffic.“And we’re really concerned about the amount of traffic that’s going to end up coming through the village once the CTLR is finished and we just feel we need to do something now to slow it down.“Nobody driving an HGV up to Aberdeen is going to go