Penrhys Hill Remains 30mph Because I.T. Staff Don’t Know How To Change the Average Speed Camera Settings

Wales has become the first country in the UK to roll out a default 20mph speed limit for most residential roads.

The scheme begins on Sunday September 17th and most roads in Wales that are currently 30mph have become 20mph, although councils have discretion to impose exemptions.

In the Rhondda the council have used that discretion so that some existing 30mph roads will not go down to 20mph.

One of the roads to remain at 30mph is Penrhys Hill, on the Fawr side of the twin valleys, a road that is monitored by average speed cameras.

My Rhondda News has discovered that this road was meant to change to 20mph, but due to bumbling IT staff, the road will remain a 30mph zone.

It turns out that the IT staff that control the settings of the average speed cameras were asked to change them to monitor for drivers exceeding 20mph instead of 30mph, but they were unable to do so, as they have lost the password to modify settings of the average speed cameras.

Therefore, the road will remain a 30mph zone.

Rhondda Boy Racer, Kayden Jones from Ystrad, told My Rhondda News, “This is mega, I can easily do 60 up that hill and I wasn’t looking forward to dropping down to 40. Now that it will stay at 30, I can carry on doing 60 up there. I don’t like to go over double the speed limit, I’m not a monster.”

Mary Fringe from Blaenllechau said, “It’s absolutely ridiculous really, we’re the forgotten valley over here. There’s no 30s over this side, those bloody councillors are letting down the Fach again, they’ve got all the 30s over the other valley, and we don’t have none.”