Cardiff 20mph speed limit

[dandywarhol]

As slow as our forward line.
It's difficult keeping to the speed limit. Has anyone been booked?

[ferrari_andretti]

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I’m lucky I’ve got a modern car so set the speed limiter on the car which does the job

[BLUETIT]

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I stick to 20mph religiously, but keep getting overtaken by arseholes on pushbikes

[Trigger]

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30 now feels more than fast enough in built up areas.

Perhaps it was all some sort of experiment.

[Fine Lines]

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I have no issue with the side streets being 20mph.

However where I live in Heath the “main” road up to Caerphilly is also 20mph. Utter madness.

[Whisperer]

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The 20mph along with the cycle lanes gridlocked London and fkd up a great city, 10 years from now it sounds like Cardiff will go the same way.

[BLUETIT]

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The 20mph along with the cycle lanes gridlocked London and fkd up a great city, 10 years from now it sounds like Cardiff will go the same way.

Wind that foreword 10 years !!!!!!

As mentioned, traffic up Caerphilly/Thornhill Road is at a standstill some days, tailing back from Morrison’s to the Aneurin Bevan

[Whisperer]

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Wind that foreword 10 years !!!!!!

As mentioned, traffic up Caerphilly/Thornhill Road is at a standstill some days, tailing back from Morrison’s to the Aneurin Bevan

BBBBluetit you just ain't seen nothing yet.

[Rjk]

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I don't mind the 20mph limit at all, it makes a lot of sense in the side streets, there are perhaps one or two through roads that it would make sense to put back to 30 but it's not a huge issue

the thing that i do find annoying about driving in Cardiff is the speed bumps, both the sheer number and in many cases the height of them are absolutely excessive.

there are some streets in 20mph zones that have speed bumps every 50 metres, and they are so high that you have to slow to much less than 10mph to safely go over them, which means you end up constantly accelerating between 10 and 20 which is extremely inefficient.
I'd be happy if they kept the 20 and got rid of the speed bumps

[Whisperer]

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After the 20 mph comes the LTN (low traffic neighbourhoods) with flower boxes stopping you from entering certain cut throughs that you’ve always used, after that you get the can’t turn left junctions which makes no sense at all and £80 when you get it wrong.

[North Cardiff Blue]

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After the 20 mph comes the LTN (low traffic neighbourhoods) with flower boxes stopping you from entering certain cut throughs that you’ve always used, after that you get the can’t turn left junctions which makes no sense at all and £80 when you get it wrong.

Drakeford's Wales, que to get in past the traffic restrictions, brynglas Tunel, Then 50mph speed limits on the motorway, close the castle roads off, then bring traffic to a standstill with 20mph (unbelievable I know but they've actually gone and done it), close other roads, that should stop those pesky tourists and locals hitting the City Centre and spending money.

[North Cardiff Blue]

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I have no issue with the side streets being 20mph.

However where I live in Heath the “main” road up to Caerphilly is also 20mph. Utter madness.

Totally agree, side streets some idiots do go too fast, even when cars are double parked so 20 is right, but Caerphilly road, Pantmawr road, and Rhiwbina hill 20mph are ridiculous.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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Totally agree, side streets some idiots do go too fast, even when cars are double parked so 20 is right, but Caerphilly road, Pantmawr road, and Rhiwbina hill 20mph are ridiculous.

I wish there was some consistency with it all.

I just did a speed awareness course after being done in a 20 zone going all the way through Cilfynydd. The guy hosting it suggested that most 20mph zones are put in place if lots of residents complain about the speed of traffic or if there have been several incidents on that particular road.

Take the A4054 going north of Ponty. 20mph until the end of Cilfynydd. There's another one just north of Treharris with average speed cameras, so I can only presume that short stretch has been a bit of a blackspot. I live just off a far busier road near Aberdare and that's a 30mph limit, while I'm slightly surprised by a 40mph limit on the way to Ynysybwl where there are houses and several junctions.

In any case, road safety should be more of a priority than trying to get somewhere as quickly as possible.

[Mario Miethig]

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Drove the entire 20mph limit at Radyr/Morganstown at about 20mph. Spent more time looking at the speedo and the car right up my arse, than looking at the road.
Also some parts of dual carriageway on Caerphilly Rd are 20mph, which is totally nonsensical.

[BLUETIT]

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Drove the entire 20mph limit at Radyr/Morganstown at about 20mph. Spent more time looking at the speedo and the car right up my arse, than looking at the road.
Also some parts of dual carriageway on Caerphilly Rd are 20mph, which is totally nonsensical.

Where is Caerphilly Road a duel carriageway ?