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Is 20mph key to residents' road safety - and 'civilising' streets?

21 February 2008
Edinburgh mixes physical road treatment measures to enforce residential 20 mph zones and temporary signals and controlled crossings to limit speeds near schools
Edinburgh mixes physical road treatment measures to enforce residential 20 mph zones and temporary signals and controlled crossings to limit speeds near schools

 

There is almost universal agreement among road safety campaigners and even motoring organisations that imposing a 20mph speed limit delivers a wide range of benefits in some situations. However, there is a wide range of opinion over where and when such limits should be deployed and how compliance is best enforced.

Meanwhile, trials of 'wireless' time-over-distance 20 mph speed enforcement cameras are nearing completion and Home Office approved could be forthcoming this year (see panel below)....

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