Speed bumps will be a last resort for West Lothian as it rolls out the national 20mph limits with officials hoping to avoid the “hard to maintain” measures.

It’s an expensive road that council officers don’t want to go down as the project is introduced to built up areas of the county including West Calder and Polbeth.

Crucial to the success of the scheme is convincing drivers the new speed limits are practical as well as safe.

At this month’s meeting of Fauldhouse and the Breich Valley Local Area Committee councillors heard about the plans to introduce the new 20mph zones as part of the first tier of changes in parts of West Calder and Polbeth.

Kenneth Brown, West Lothian’s roads network manager told councillors speed bumps and other engineering solutions are expensive and need regu

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