But a blanket speed limit – set at whatever level – works against that. What a sensible highways authority does is to create a hierarchy of roads – from fast roads where traffic can be kept away from pedestrians and cyclists, to zones where the latter have priority.
It seems to be lost on Drakeford and his colleagues that people need to get about, that businesses need deliveries, that patients need to get to hospital appointments – and that slowing down all traffic on every road is going to increase costs for consumers, destroy jobs and make it more difficult for people to seek medical attention. You would have to be a crash dummy to want to contemplate driving along it at any speed. Just to underline how brainless Monmouthshire’s blanket 20 mph limit was, one photograph emerged of a 20 mph sign erected on a stretch of residential street, just a couple of yards before a set of bollards erected to block off all vehicular access. To impose the same limit on a through-road, with traffic light-controlled junctions and a good degree of segregation between traffic and pedestrians as you would impose on a narrow residential street is preposterous. In Abergavenny, the limit even applied to wide parts of the A40, the main road through the town, on which people and businesses rely to reach Brecon and a huge area of central Wales. Indeed, where you have narrow roads and no pavements, even 20 mph is too fast. I’m all in favour of 20 mph speed limits where appropriate – and on many streets they are an appropriate limit.
Monmouthshire, which thought it would get even further ahead and impose a blanket 20 mph limit in Abergavenny and surrounding villages ahead of the deadline, has just had to backtrack and reverse the measure weeks after it was introduced, after a backlash from residents. Look, I bet he thought to himself, if I can get this imposed by next year I’ll trump Nicola Sturgeon, who is planning the same measure in 2025 – I’ll be the greenest and most progressive leader in Britain, if not the whole world!Īlas, things do not seem to be going well.
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