| Topic: | Re:20mph greatly reduces chances of serious injury or death | |
| Posted by: | Simon Hayes | |
| Date/Time: | 23/01/25 10:02:00 |
| You always cite your personal experience as the only valid viewpoint, Dominik. It's not. There are thousands of businesses in London that rely on the road network to operate efficiently. The road network has been so messed about with that it's becoming impossible to do that, with a consequent impact on profitablity. Delivery drivers, in particular, are finding the limits and restrictions very difficult, hence the dumping of parcels on doorsteps (or even the wrong address) and the subsequent increase in parcel thefts. You probably haven't quite understood the argument here. 20mph is fine for residential side roads, but it's not appropriate for main and trunk roads, where pedestrian interaction is minimal. It's why they reversed the policy in Wales. Talking about average speeds is a red herring. The speeds on many stretches of road is well below 20mph. That's why you get incidents of speeding on emptier parts of the network, or indeed on side roads (And I don't condone that). It's often business vehicles that are doing this, rather than private cars. It's obvious that reducing speeds to a crawl will reduce the consequences of any accident, so that's not really an argument. Improving driving skills would be more beneficial to everyone. I've long said that there should be compulsory retesting of drivers after a certain period of time, and those who fail would be taken off the roads. As always, I'd ask you, or Paul or Ben, to provide detailed statistics of accidents and casualties on the roads, such as the part of the Uxbridge Road outside the hospital. I suspect that you won't because rather like hhe deadly Dr Aldred, there's virtually nothing to support your case. |