What on earth are you on (about)?
"2 Hospitals"
Wot?
On the car-riageway?
On the central reservation, even?
No.
"On" the Ring Road.
So what?
There are bus stops in the extensive hospital grounds.
Pedestrian subways out of the QMC.
And Pelican crossings out of the City?
"so elderly people"
So, it's old people in cars you are concerned about!
"shops yes several parades"
Several?
And where?
On the car-riageway?
On the central reservation, even?
No.
"Miles" off the Ring Road.
I suppose you want the M1 to be a 20 mph zone because of "shops yes several parades" on it!
"schools I can think of one on the ring road"
As I told you, and with no access.
"and 2 close"
And I bet there's a dam sight more than two close to the M1.
So what?
"to from which children need to cross."
Again, there are pelican crossings.
Oh, but they were going to put one where the kids crossing from the High School playing fields ran to the "tuck shop".
But it got moved a few hundred yards up the road.
Allegedly because some councillor, or maybe just a relative, friend, or perhaps just an aquaintance, crossed there.
Once a fortnight.
Or something.
So they say.
Probably just gossip.
So my cynicism about road "safety" "planning", and protecting kids from killing themselves is probably totally misplaced.
Allegedly.
"Houses all the way until past the QMC."
All the way?
Clearly you haven't driven it.
No houses on one side from Mansfield road to way past Hucknall road.
Large chunks with no houses from there to past Vernon/Radford Roads.
Large chunks with no houses on either side between Nuthall Road and Wollaton Road (nearly a kilometre?).
"40 is"
NOT
"an appropriate speed"
For large chunks of it.
"and"
Anyone who says that:
"anyone who proposes faster is showing they are nothing but a speed freak."
Is an anti-car freak.