Introducing default 20mph speed limits...

[Brynmor]

The biggest problem is it’s not just around town / villages…we’ve open mountain near me that has gone from 60mph to 30mph in the last 5 yrs and will now be 20mph !
I totally agree around schools / town centers etc it’s a good idea but the blanket approach is utterly ridiculous.

[DougR]

Hi folks, yeah same here in Ireland. Everything in the city is 30kph. Years ago all the primary roads were 60mph and boreens were 50mph. When we changed to kilometers they just swapped the signs. Now they've sorted out the primary roads and set them to 60kph. Motorways are 120kph across the board. But the crazy thing is if you turn off the primary road on to a small road (boreens as we call them), they haven't updated them and the limit is still 80 kph from the original 50mph. So you can do 50 (in old speak) on a boreen but you can only do 40 on a primary road. Nuts. Cheers, Doug.

[InnoCooperExport]

The biggest problem is it’s not just around town / villages…we’ve open mountain near me that has gone from 60mph to 30mph in the last 5 yrs and will now be 20mph !
I totally agree around schools / town centers etc it’s a good idea but the blanket approach is utterly ridiculous.

Oh that does sound stupid. Blanket approaches rarely work, one size fits none as they say.

[Costafortune]

The biggest problem is it’s not just around town / villages…we’ve open mountain near me that has gone from 60mph to 30mph in the last 5 yrs and will now be 20mph !
I totally agree around schools / town centers etc it’s a good idea but the blanket approach is utterly ridiculous.

That appalling Drakeford idiot needs money - and you are a default provider.

[turbocox]

This must have something to do with local authorities getting more money, out of the government road tax funds if a road is classed as a 30 or 20 MPH road… …??

[nick@dunsdale]

We have had 20mph limits in most towns in the scottish borders for a year or two now
They have moved the 20mph zone in a bit on some towns
But some are still 20 from sign post to sign post.
Maintaining 20 for up to a couple of miles with no cars in front of you takes practise for sure
As the pushbikes pass you as well

[AndyPen]

It is now coming to light how much public transport, emergency services and deliveries are going to be impacted, plus of course how it will hit the economy. Still trying to work out how being in second gear mostly will help pollution levels?? The maps are out and locally, it is going to be be quite a struggle, especially at quiet times where we used to have 40 mph for example - now 20???

[Costafortune]

My friend just got himself six points, 40 in a 20. This was no village though but a main road in the cesspit that is London. The new 20 sign was both tiny and obscured by foliage, not that this stopped the traffic police from having a handy roadside speed check.

A stern word? Some sage advice? No chance.

This is pure revenue generation, nothing more. The regular police generally do a fine job in difficult times but those bastards.....

[snoopy64]

I’d have to say the only car I drive that’s good in a 20 is a phev… that is until the battery goes flat!

[mab01uk]