Proposal to reduce speed limit on Seaton Down Hill and at junction with A3052 is overdue – let’s make it a step to a Slower, Safer Seaton
Devon Highways are currently consulting on a proposal to extend the 40 mph zone on Harepath Hill past the junction with Seaton Down Hill, bringing the hill itself within the 40 zone. This should help to make the junction safer – at the moment drivers coming over Harepath Hill may see the end-of-limit sign and speed up (as I know to my cost having been involved in a bump there a few years ago) – and also mean that drivers will slow down before they come into the 30 limit entering Seaton.
The change is the result of persistent pressure by the Speedwatch team, led until recently by Paul Allan, supported by the Town Council and myself as County Councillor (who have combined to fund the traffic order), which has already produced the Vehicle Activated Sign and pedestrian refuge lower down Seaton Down Hill.
However these changes need to be backed up by a campaign for a Slower, Safer Seaton, to get people driving at speeds which are viewed as safe by pedestrians. I’m on a group at Devon County Council which is looking at the problem of traffic speeds and I hope to use their proposals to promotechange locally.
Seaton & Colyton MATTERS 
March 16, 2019 at 5:54 pm
The traffic calming measures are good. Lost count of many times have we looked right, to turn left towards Sidmouth, and although there is no-one in sight, as soon as you’re out onto the main road, obviously still gathering speed, there is a car flying up behind you in your rear view mirror. There is no way of avoiding this situation, the drivers coming up a steep hill have now gathered speed on the flat, followed by a downward slope, and are by then going far too fast.
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