St. Peter's Road room for improvement!

A few weeks ago, some of Peter's Road which runs from the Margate Hospital, through to St. Peter's roundabout was resurfaced.

Improvements having been made included new speed restrictions lowering the speed to a 50 mph, I assume this was done to allow the mainly ignorant Thanetonians, to have a speed to aim for when using this road, as in the past people's speed has been mainly been governed by their ignorance of the national speed limit, those driving Nissan Micras and wearing either a flat cap, trilby or blue rinse, assume the speed limit was a racy 30 miles an hour, the rest of us of working age, aimed at the then legal 60 mph, and preferably an early morning 70 mph (I speak for myself here).

Being a cynic, I feel the main reason for the lowering of the speed limit on this road is to enable use of speed cameras. There is one improvement which I personally think should be a priority over placing new speed restriction signs, that is reinstatement of road markings unless things have changed overnight this road as no markings.

Personally I think this is rather negligent, in the same way that a Thanetonians have little clue as to speed limits, they are also not very clever where positioning on the road is concerned, as a regular cyclist this can be quite alarming. It would be nice if someone could make replacing white lines a priority before someone else is harmed on this road. I recently cycled down this road and was forced off the pavement (which doubles as a cycle path and pavement ) twice, once by road works, and secondly by a mini digger travelling at high speed which refused to give way to this cyclist.