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Wales' 20mph speed limit: How has the first month gone?
(www.bbc.co.uk)
Slowly?
It will be safer for sure.
Indont understand the logic of 'theres tailbacks now because of 20mph'. Surely there are tailbacks because someone is doing 20mph and someone is doing 30mph.
I've barely noticed it where I am. In fact some roads have increased to 30 in caldicot.
However, what I have noticed is so many a-roads and motorways are 50mph recently. It takes a fucking age to get to Cardiff or abergavenny because so much of the route is 50mph. The m48 is all 50 because they found the barriers unsafe and, if the m32 is anything to go by, the barriers will never be sorted.
yeah for me the 50s on the motorway are FAR more annoying than the 20s on residential streets.
The M32 was due to be classified as an A road due to the changes in speed. Now the council are going to add bus stops for the (failed) Metrobus scheme, so it'll officially move away from becoming a motorway soon.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Julian Wakeford agrees with the 460,000 petition signatories wanting to axe Wales' new law lowering built-up area speed limits to 20mph.
Wales was the first UK nation to lower speed limits in built-up areas to 20mph last month and I'm travelling up the Rhondda Fawr valley from Pontypridd up to Treherbert - which is without its train line to Cardiff which is shut until the new year - for a snapshot of reaction from the public.
The Conservatives, in Westminster and Wales, have called it "insane" and a "war on motorists" and the Welsh Labour government's own consultation found more were against it than for it.
This is where councils have successfully argued there are not significant numbers of pedestrians and cyclists "travelling along or across" that part of road or are not "mixing" with traffic.
Her husband Steve broadly supports the change, although he does say people who commute to Cardiff, Swansea and Newport have to leave half an hour earlier "because there's so much traffic going down the valley."
What I've found talking to people here, there are mixed reactions and some remain to be convinced while others are shrugging their shoulders and moving on, albeit a bit more slowly.
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Wait till somebody comes up with the bulletproof argument. What is the REAL carbon footprint of this all, I ask?
Painfully.
this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2023
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