Welsh Labour leader hopeful Jeremy Miles' 20mph review pledge

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Originally Posted by North Cardiff Blue

Where do you live?

North Cardiff is slowed to 20mph or less a lot of the time, although they are getting overtaken and gradually speeding up.

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I live in north Cardiff

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Originally Posted by Rjk

I live in north Cardiff

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Pantmawr Road, HLF, all Caerphilly Road, Heol Y Deri, and most of Whitchurch is congested and slowed by dawdling traffic missing traffic lights it's much worse.

No mention of the Coronavirus cover up….yet

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Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee

They claim safety. I reckon it's about trying to make roads more of a problem for drivers to force them into alternatives.

In a way they've got a point. Where I live there are virtually no places to park anywhere. I'm in the valleys near Aberdare. The roads around here cannot cope with the traffic on them, yet there are more and more car journeys and owners every year. Where I live I'm lucky if I can park near the house. There aren't options to provide off road parking. Our streets weren't designed for it. Several houses have more than one car per house. There are work vans.

It'll keep getting worse until someone has a solution.

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Eric - Caro Wild - labour Councillor at Cardiff city council - was the person behind closing roads , introducing traffic calming (congestion) all over Cardiff. His closure of Castle st on the grounds of air pollution was over turned and the Labour group at the council were forced to re open it (cost 3.8 million). Not to be defeated they then introduced the crazy system we have now - that leads to (ironically) more air pollution.

Mike Welch - Labour activist and ex friend of Caro Wild spilled the beans online - when he said that Caro and the Labour partys plan was to "introduce as much chaos as possible" across Cardiff so that people would give up driving and the policy was that Cardiff become a city of village, where you stay and dont venture anywhere else.

That same policy is backed by Labour at the Senedd and many Labour councils across Wales it seems.

I only go 20mph when the car in front of me does, and thankfully not many are adhering to the pathetic limit.

I wonder if the move to bringing more and more rules to the motorists we may increase deaths as pedestrians, cyclist become less aware and responsible for their own actions.

Driving around Wales I have found a bewildering number of extra signs, bumps, varied speeds limits, endless traffic lights, roundabout after roundabout, a stranger to the city or elderly person could easily be distracted from the core skill of driving, and become distracted by so much signage...

What happened to pedestrians responsibliliies of things like looking right and left before crossing.. A lot can't hear or see these days as they far away and equally distracted by their noise cancelling headphones.

Cyclists think clipping a camera to their helmet ( on their head not the bulb below) allows them Carte blanche to disregard road rules.

1984 is upon us.

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Originally Posted by pipster

Eric - Caro Wild - labour Councillor at Cardiff city council - was the person behind closing roads , introducing traffic calming (congestion) all over Cardiff. His closure of Castle st on the grounds of air pollution was over turned and the Labour group at the council were forced to re open it (cost 3.8 million). Not to be defeated they then introduced the crazy system we have now - that leads to (ironically) more air pollution.

Mike Welch - Labour activist and ex friend of Caro Wild spilled the beans online - when he said that Caro and the Labour partys plan was to "introduce as much chaos as possible" across Cardiff so that people would give up driving and the policy was that Cardiff become a city of village, where you stay and dont venture anywhere else.

That same policy is backed by Labour at the Senedd and many Labour councils across Wales it seems.

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Whatever happened to fifteen minute cities? The independent thinkers on here, and UK Government ministers, were talking about little else for a while.

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Originally Posted by life on mars

I wonder if the move to bringing more and more rules to the motorists we may increase deaths as pedestrians, cyclist become less aware and responsible for their own actions.

Driving around Wales I have found a bewildering number of extra signs, bumps, varied speeds limits, endless traffic lights, roundabout after roundabout, a stranger to the city or elderly person could easily be distracted from the core skill of driving, and become distracted by so much signage...

What happened to pedestrians responsibliliies of things like looking right and left before crossing.. A lot can't hear or see these days as they far away and equally distracted by their noise cancelling headphones.

Cyclists think clipping a camera to their helmet ( on their head not the bulb below) allows them Carte blanche to disregard road rules.

1984 is upon us.

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No, it’s forty years past us.

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Originally Posted by the other bob wilson

No, it’s forty years past us.

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:hehe: brilliant

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67897575

Jeremy Miles has ruled out a U-turn on the controversial 20mph law in Wales if he becomes first minister.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67885118

The new 20mph default speed limit in built-up areas in Wales will start to be enforced this month.

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Originally Posted by LeningradCowboy

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67885118

The new 20mph default speed limit in built-up areas in Wales will start to be enforced this month.

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That won't make much difference. There aren't the police numbers to police it, unless they spend a fortune on cameras.

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Originally Posted by Jimmy the Jock

If that is the case , surely the next step should be a man with a flag in front of all cars ?

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There is a certain politician that lives on millionaires row aka Cathedral road (where all good socialists live) - he will be looking for a job in the summer - and Im sure he has a red flag to wave.