20MPH speed limits North Cardiff

[Philo2]

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If your car has adaptive cruise control it's much easier.

I wouldn't buy one without now as it's so hard to stick to 20mph whilst paying full attention to the road

[Taffy Blue in Berkshire]

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What's behind all this? Tree huggers?

[Optimistic Nick]

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When I moved out of Cardiff 20+ years ago, the speed limit on the road past the BBC was 40. It is now 20, even though far fewer people are crossing that road and cars are far better at stopping

I live on a normal suburban residential street in England where the speed limit is 30.

Both places have it wrong. It should be 30 in Llandaff, and 20 on any purely residential street.

[Optimistic Nick]

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Its the same from Morganstown (Pugh's Garden Centre) to Radyr, 20mph. Absolute joke

Serious? Up that hill with no houses!?

[Mario Miethig]

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When I moved out of Cardiff 20+ years ago, the speed limit on the road past the BBC was 40. It is now 20, even though far fewer people are crossing that road and cars are far better at stopping

I live on a normal suburban residential street in England where the speed limit is 30.

Both places have it wrong. It should be 30 in Llandaff, and 20 on any purely residential street.

I actually failed my first driving test in 1987, for doing 30mph past the BBC studios. Didn’t realise it was 40. I’d be speeding doing 30 there now. It’s a joke!

[Enoch Mort]

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Serious? Up that hill with no houses!?

I think the 20 mph starts just after going under the M4 but, as stated it is 20 mph all the way along Heol Isaf as far as Llantrisant Road with a speed camera outside Radar Comp.

[Optimistic Nick]

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I actually failed my first driving test in 1987, for doing 30mph past the BBC studios. Didn’t realise it was 40. I’d be speeding doing 30 there now. It’s a joke!

Stupid question, but failed for going too slowly?!

I don't live In cardiff any more so my view isn't affected by NIMBYism, but good lord have they Ballsed it up over the last twenty years. What the **** is going on towards pentyrch? Llandaff is already a bottleneck (even before the absolutely bollocks 20mph) and I can't see any new roads in the plan. How are those people getting to work?!

I took a train from Cardiff to radyr recently, it was a single carriage. Seats for 50 people max. I'm all for getting cars off the roads and Cardiff has a pretty decent rail infrastructure to allow it, but **** me are they making it hard. Build the capacity on public transport first. Don't force them out of their cars and deal with the aftermath.

The planners have some great tools at their disposal but the plans they have are incoherent.

EDIT: I say this as my local train line services some pretty tiny villages. Minimum 4 carriages. If I lived in Cardiff, the train line would be my ideal way of getting to work so ffs put some capacity on it.

[life on mars]

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As a CF14 resident it's the right thing to do , the area is flooded with cars and most families have one or two , there is a lot of pedestrians , cyclists , schools , shops , public transport and other amenities due to the areas popularity. The council have introduced road narrowing , humps etc., nothing stops folk speeding and putting people at risk so here we are at 20mph limit with folk speeding anyway. Some good news you still lick along past the BBC at 40mph around 3am in the morning, not sure what it be like after the new house build so get over in yer Ford Capri's while you can actually drive a car through CF14 as our car travel days are numbered ?

[North Cardiff Blue]

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It's all bollocks and completely unnecessary.

Exactly :thumbup:

[North Cardiff Blue]

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If your car has adaptive cruise control it's much easier.

I wouldn't buy one without now as it's so hard to stick to 20mph whilst paying full attention to the road

Problem is as people are saying above, the oldies and nervous are starting to do 15 to be on the safe side so your cruise will have to drop to 15!

[North Cardiff Blue]

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When I moved out of Cardiff 20+ years ago, the speed limit on the road past the BBC was 40. It is now 20, even though far fewer people are crossing that road and cars are far better at stopping

I live on a normal suburban residential street in England where the speed limit is 30.

Both places have it wrong. It should be 30 in Llandaff, and 20 on any purely residential street.

Exactly right!

[IanD]

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Is Lansdowne Road now 20 mph, too?

[Joe Gillis]

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Serious? Up that hill with no houses!?

Absolutely, it was like a wagon train behind me. It puts pressure on drivers.

[ManBearPig]

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The cruise control on my car won't go below 25 MPH - says it is too slow!

[North Cardiff Blue]

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no car I've ever driven would struggle to keep it to 20mph, if they were being driven properly

ManBearPig
The cruise control on my car won't go below 25 MPH - says it is too slow!

That's what I thought :thumbup: