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20mph limits don’t work, so why are we introducing more?

Francis King, Bath BA2
14 September 2012
 

I would like to register my concern about the story in LTT, ‘Pressure for blanket 20mph limits’ (LTT 17 Aug). The Liberal Democrats are proposing 20mph speed limits, without any physical means of slowing vehicles down.

The use of 20mph roundels alone, as they propose, will reduce the speed of the vehicles, on average, by 1mph. If they are travelling slowly already, then what is the point? Liberal Democrat councillor Sarah Osborne believes that signed-only 20mph limits are cheaper...

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