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Do 20mph limits actually work?

12 June 2015
 

On 3 June freelance journalist Haley Birch, writing in The Guardian, debated the interesting question: “Do 20mph speed limits actually work?”

“To reduce casualties they [20mph limits] have to reduce speed, but not everybody agrees that they do,” she observed. “Statistics collect by the council [Islington] do suggest traffic has slowed, but only marginally.

“What’s most convincing… is the basic physics,” Birch noted. “A car hitting a...

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