20’s Plenty For Us joined with Warrington Cycle Campaign in hosting a national conference for those campaigning for better road conditions for cycling and walking last weekend.
The latest Road Safety Report from the House of Commons Transport Committee calls for “Ending the Scandal of Complacency” associated with road casualties.
20’s Plenty For Us has ¾ million residents in Portsmouth, Oxford, Norwich and now Leicester who have opted for 20 mph as the default limit for residential streets.
20’s Plenty For Us is co-hosting the Streets Ahead Conference on 15th November in Warrington.
20’s Plenty For Us launches a major campaign for all towns and cities to set 20 mph as the default speed limit for residential roads by 2010.
20’s Plenty For Us calls for a major re-think of road safety strategy to take into account the needs of vulnerable road users in its evidence to the Transport Committee.
20’s Plenty For Us welcomes the recent commitment from the Road Safety Minister, Jim Fitzpatrick to reducing road deaths and increasing safety through the increased use of 20 mph speed limits.
Norwich could be the next city to implement 20 mph as a blanket speed limit on all residential roads. Earlier this week councillors from all four political parties backed the blanket speed limit as one of the council’s key aims for 2008/9.
The recently publicised report from the AA claiming that 20 mph speed limits increases pollution is laughable for both it shallow basis for testing and its failing to understand the wider environmental reasons for, and benefits of lower speeds.