Petition against 20mph blanket speed limit

[Eric the Half a Bee]

Re: Petition against 20mph blanket speed limit

When I went a speed awareness course, the only thing I learned was where theres no speed limit signs, and street lights are present.,the default speed limit is 30mph.
I presume now the default speed limit is 20 mph.

Yes, unless signs say 30mph or other.

I have no issue with 20mph areas in residential areas, by schools during school time etc, but the default is now 20mph unless told otherwise.

[Joe Gillis]

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I thought it sounded like a daft policy if it was a blanket drop to 20mph from 30mph but it's only on selected roads.

Hardly make any difference.

Apart from to the old knobheads who like to complain about everything.

**** off

[North Cardiff Blue]

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I must admit, I thought the total would be going up much faster than it actually is. I've been checking, about 150 signatures a day is the average, which is not that much. Is it that people don't know about the petition, or that they don't care, or perhaps that they don't think it will make any difference what they vote?

It will move faster after 17th when people have experienced it.

[North Cardiff Blue]

Re: Petition against 20mph blanket speed limit

I thought it sounded like a daft policy if it was a blanket drop to 20mph from 30mph but it's only on selected roads.

Hardly make any difference.

Apart from to the old knobheads who like to complain about everything.

It's young knobheads with busy jobs mostly, the old knobheads love it it fills the day with their trip to Asda taking 30% longer!

[Hilts]

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63% in favour of it apparently.

[North Cardiff Blue]

Re: Petition against 20mph blanket speed limit

63% in favour of it apparently.

90% or more against

Overall, 5,112 votes were received with 87 percent (4,464 people) answering “yes” compared with 12 percent (624 people) who said “no”. A further 24 people said they did not know.

Hundreds of comments were left below the accompanying article as readers shared their thoughts on the reduced speed limit.

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/cars/1787248/20mph-speed-limit-poll-result-spt

Since April, WalesOnline has been conducting its own poll, to find out what readers thought about the speed limit reduction. In response to the question, 'Do you support the default speed limit changing from 30mph to 20mph in Wales?' there were 825 yes votes, but more than ten times as many - 8,770 - for no. These results suggest that an overwhelming majority are against the change, but it is important to point out that the tool is not perfect as people are able to vote more than once.

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/asked-people-wales-supported-20mph-27430204

[Heathblue]

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Presumably the point you are making is that 1966 was the year that the highest number of road fatalities in the UK was recorded and as a result of speed restrictions they are lower by a factor of 5 times?

And the improved safety of cars has nothing to do with a lowering factor ?
IMO however is that 70 MPH is plenty fast enough.

[Hilts]

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90% or more against

Overall, 5,112 votes were received with 87 percent (4,464 people) answering “yes” compared with 12 percent (624 people) who said “no”. A further 24 people said they did not know.

Hundreds of comments were left below the accompanying article as readers shared their thoughts on the reduced speed limit.

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/cars/1787248/20mph-speed-limit-poll-result-spt

Since April, WalesOnline has been conducting its own poll, to find out what readers thought about the speed limit reduction. In response to the question, 'Do you support the default speed limit changing from 30mph to 20mph in Wales?' there were 825 yes votes, but more than ten times as many - 8,770 - for no. These results suggest that an overwhelming majority are against the change, but it is important to point out that the tool is not perfect as people are able to vote more than once.

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/w...20mph-27430204

I bet the overwhelming majority voting are motorists.

I bet if there was a vote of those in residential areas who dont drive including elderly and children then the result would look very different.

[North Cardiff Blue]

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I bet the overwhelming majority voting are motorists.

I bet if there was a vote of those in residential areas who dont drive including elderly and children then the result would look very different.

Yes and if they'd have asked the sheep they would have wanted no cars and more grass, and a ban on wellies, 90% are against it :thumbup:

[Hilts]

Re: Petition against 20mph blanket speed limit

Yes and if they'd have asked the sheep they would have wanted no cars and more grass, and a ban on wellies, 90% are against it :thumbup:

63% in favour.👍

[Hilts]

Re: Petition against 20mph blanket speed limit

Annoying? But safer.?

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/drove-cardiff-20mph-people-find-27680678

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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[North Cardiff Blue]

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No confidence in him either, but he was in favour of 20mph in Sully, Penarth an area he represents in 2018 in relation to speeding in that area, he was daft to get a photo taken though that can now be used by the Drippy's cronies years later.

Surely Wales can do better than Drippy and RT?

[The Bloop]

Re: Petition against 20mph blanket speed limit

No confidence in him either, but he was in favour of 20mph in Sully, Penarth an area he represents in 2018 in relation to speeding in that area, he was daft to get a photo taken though that can now be used by the Drippy's cronies years later.

Surely Wales can do better than Drippy and RT?

7 out of 11 Tories voted in favour of it, as did 8 out of 10 Plaid AMs. Oddly, ART didn't turn up to vote.
All the Tories can see now is a policy that seems widely unpopular, and therefore a potential vote winner, hence their promise now of overturning it if they win the next Senedd election.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

Re: Petition against 20mph blanket speed limit

7 out of 11 Tories voted in favour of it, as did 8 out of 10 Plaid AMs. Oddly, ART didn't turn up to vote.
All the Tories can see now is a policy that seems widely unpopular, and therefore a potential vote winner, hence their promise now of overturning it if they win the next Senedd election.

Thing is, it isn't a potential vote winner. There's been no sign of Tory increases in the opinion polls in the several weeks since they announced their u-turn on the matter.