[hamdingers]

A reduction in design speed of the road has to accompany a reduction of speed limit for it to be effective. Narrower lanes, etc.

It sounds like the residents are opposed to, well, anything.

[throwaway173738]

Actually many of the residents were in favor of changing the road. One person decided to fight the entire project on the basis of a cairn of rocks that 5 or 6 archaeologists agreed had no cultural significance.