Council officers seek 20mph limits on through roads

Local Government officers have called on the DfT to explicitly endorse the use of 20mph speed limits on busy shopping streets, as well as residential roads.

“In many urban areas traditional commercial and shopping areas are located on such through routes and accident figures on such routes, particularly for pedestrians, are often high,” says the Technical Advisers Group in its response to the DfT’s consultation on revised speed limit advice (LTT 18 Dec 09). “We would...

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