| Topic: | Re:Re:Webinar on 20mph Streets | |
| Posted by: | N V Brooks | |
| Date/Time: | 21/04/26 17:01:00 |
| It is the 'blanket' nature of the 20mph restriction that causes issues. No problem at all with '20 is plenty' in the vicinity of schools or on housing estates, However, 20 on wider urban roads or 30mph on dual carriageway is nonsensical. Stretches of the three lanes in each direction A4 are now 30mph, why? The limits are more than adequately enforced by cameras. Accident statistics reveal swathes of the A4 without a single injury-causing collision. Only one European country has a lower 'blanket' urban speed limit -Albania. As to driving being more relaxing, hardly, as one encounters countless drivers trying to catch up to recover time lost. This has been my experience time and agian driving in Wales where a perfectly safe (from accident statistics) 50 mph dual carriageway is reduced to 20mph for less than 200yards, because it passes two houses (the reduction criteria apparently), even if those houses are nowhere near the restricted road. |