Drakeford 20 mph Speed Limit

Give it another 10 years and Wales will be back in horse and cart times

Some can run faster than that!

Motorists being passed by cyclists, E-bikes, and E scooters.

Best get an E-bike or an E-scooter if you're in a hurry and ride on the footpath. The police won't be bothered, they only get involved if someone gets hurt.
You can have a drink as well. Only trouble is leaving your wheels outside the pub. They won't be there when you come out.

England - best country in the world for lawbreakers.

They reckon it will add about 1 minute to your journey time.........who the hell comes up with this crap ffs. They really do live on another planet.

My car now only gets to go inbetween 2nd and 3rd gear and yes cyclists whizzing past. Most hate Drakey and what he and his cronies are doing to Wales but crazilly keep voting them in

Other countries have had 30 kph zones for a very long time. If Germans are able to survive the horror of 30 kph, then the tough Welsh will be able to survive slightly above 30 kph no problem.

I was on a speed awareness course a few years ago and one thing that stuck was that you don't want to get in a bad accident in Wales. Basically so much of it is so far away from A&E or paramedic stations that you could die waiting.

Just picked up my rental car at Cardiff Airport.

One can always argue if all of a city should be 30kph/20mph I guess, but certainly (almost) every area with pedestrians and especially children should be. The injuries for these far weaker traffic participants are simply so much lesser at 20 mph, the force put on them so much smaller, chance of survivial so much greater.

Breathalyser, seat belts and now 20mph in
built up areas,

Ffs what ever next

Sep 18, 2023 -- 8:02AM, edy wrote:

Other countries have had 30 kph zones for a very long time. If Germans are able to survive the horror of 30 kph, then the tough Welsh will be able to survive slightly above 30 kph no problem.

Don't you still have Hitler's autobahns, with no speed limit?

We do, but there are no children and other pedestrians on those for the most part.

You reckon the Germans can live with 30 kph zones because they can go full throttle for 10 km at a time in between the under construction zones on autobahns to let off steam and aggression?

Or what exactly is the relevance of autobahns here meant to be?

A lot of London is 20mph including fairly major roads.

Parts of the A1 are 20mph. Plan is for more roads to go to 20. Wales is not alone in their plan.


https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/safety-and-security/road-safety/safe-speeds

There's a Labour fruit loop there too.

Apparent to anyone with a functioning brain, speed limits are a trade off with productivity and safety. You could set the speed limit on motorways to 30 and have no deaths. That would be idiocy and cost billions. Meaning these days, it couldn't be ruled out.

They have pointed out that slower speed limits wont mean longer journey times so if thats true there is no problem.

The speed limits are already appropriate for the roads. Road cars have got so much safer for pedestrians and cars, via enhanced technology. Why do so many politicians suddenly want to tinker with them. (that is rhetorical)

I am going to see if what they say is true tomorrow. I will drive into town at 30 MPH and on my way home travel at 20 MPH to see if it makes any difference timewise.

I drove around London for many years (don't know where you are). In many parts, it wouldn't matter what the speed limit was. You're in persistent traffic. Many residential roads also had traffic calming measures. I have heard however that the A40 was moved to 30. Which is absurd.

In any case, the vast majority of people drive at a speed appropriate for the conditions. You instinctively know how fast you should be going. Having the speed limit significantly vary from the 'natural' speed will cause all sorts of problems.

I read somewhere that people were breaking the limits and also entering restricted zones without paying after altering their number plates.

The lowering of the speed limits could be partly to piss off the motorist, and make them dislike driving altogether. 
Then it won't be so bad for those who will have to give up their cars over the rising costs.

If a road has cars parked on it then 2o is plenty.

Drakeford looks a right smug barstewart on that sign above where he uses a school as an example of where 20 is appropriate. No one is arguing with that.
Yet he's wheeled the 20 limit out all over the town.
Using the school as an example is dishonest if the limit applies everywhere.

We live in strange times, gentlemen.

It is claimed that reducing one’s speed will not increase the duration of one’s journey… and many folks believe it!

if you are lucky enough to have encounter raffic sticking to 20 mph is not easy at first, you will spend a bit of time checking your speed so will have your eyes on the road for less time.

it makes sense around schools or hospitals but really is ott, multi-lane arterial roads reduced to 20 is a joke. in london a target figure of one million fines for speeding has been plucked out of thin air.

to encounter little traffic ...

the elevated section of the a40  westway was reduced to 30 because due to structural issues.

it makes sense around schools or hospitals

That's what Germany has basically using it for since the 80s and nobody really moans about it. Maybe the people of Hamburg and Cologne did back in the 80s, I don't know.

It's primarily a safety thing for children and other participants in a town's traffic landscape. Additionally it is used to reduce the noise created and improve the living conditions of those living directly next to some streets. In terms of living quality it also locally reduces NOx and also especially fine particular matter for the residents and those strolling around an area, but nobody cared about those things four decades ago. People tended to bath in and enjoy the fine and rich smell of pollutants.

Drakeford said it would increase journey times.



We live in strange times, gentlemen

Where people choose to invent stuff rather than
report what was said.



First minister Mark Drakeford said: 'It's going to take you a minute longer to make your journey, and we will save 10 people's lives in Wales every year as a result of that one-minute contribution - it doesn't seem an unfair bargain.'

surely if you are going to be using the car for longer

you are going to be using more oil aint yer ?  thought we had to just stop oil ?

traffic lights for roundabouts aint it ?

what you lose on the swings .....you dont get on the roundabouts either

Oil, once a year Shirley.

Petrol, less.

Drakey reckons it will save the Welsh NHS 92 mill a year but some economists estimate it will cost the Welsh economy upwards of 4 bill a year ........crazy stuff

5% of the country's GDP in a single year for a bit of 20 mph instead of 30 mph here and there sounds a tad excessive.

Save the economy today by riding your bike and giving the ones that absolutely need the car (professional drivers, handy men etc.) free road, far less congestion and more productivity.

Invest the saved petrol money into British products for British jobs instead of giving it all to Big Petrol.

*Big Foreign Petrol.

we will all be going about in fred flinsone cars soon

flintstone lol ***

Yabba dabba doo

Why not always drive at 20mph on any road ?
No need to drive faster imho

wadc

I have sometimes had to pull over and stop
to let a slow driver pass

Sign the petition....anybody got a link to it .....cheers

Presumably Drakeford will just pass the blame of the economical effects on to someone else.

Invest the saved petrol money into British products for British jobs instead of giving it all to Big Petrol.

If the Fuel Price increases to what it was  ,There will be mass Drive outs at Garages  , Seems its ok for others to Rob

Most of Inner London been 20 mph for years , CHAOS

Sheriff Khan wants everyone on his Lovely Diverse Electric  Buses and Tube system , while he patrols around in his Armored Car

Tube stinking and full of wrong uns  , How lovely

His ULEZ cameras are not doing too well

by far the worst pollution in london is found on ...... the tubes, i believe multiple levels higher than on roads.

i await the news that the tube network has been closed down.