Quote Originally Posted by Rjk View Post
no that's not my logic at all.

cities all over the world have made similar changes to speed limits in residential areas because it saves lives and has very little impact on most people.
the vast majority of people hardly drive on residential streets, maybe a short amount at either end of a journey. Changing this to 20 has a very small overall impact for the benefit it causes.

a change to 10mph is of course a much more drastic change and would be very noticeable, of course I wouldn't be for that
I was driving through Tylorstown to Maerdy a few weeks ago, it was 20mph with cameras. If it has since changed then fair enough, but I imagine that has an impact on people. I remember working in Dinas Rhondda last year and before the speed change there was little traffic coming towards Pontypridd, the same week the changes happened they were backing up past the heritage hotel. That is an impact in my eyes, luckily like Eric mentions they've seen sense and changed it to 30 through Hopkinstown, but if its still 20 further up then I imagine its still having an impact on people at peak times.