More than half of London's roads and a
third of the country now have 20mph speed
limits for built-up areas as calls grow
for Government to extend it across nation
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Bhvishya Patel
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
7/18/2021 1:10:30 PM
Millions of drivers in London are facing lower speed limits after more than half of the roads in the capital's built-up areas were reduced to 20mph.
More than 50 per cent of the capital's roads are now restricted to 20mph and a third of local authorities have also rolled out the measures to stop motorists exceeding the speed limit. The move comes after the Welsh government announced that it would be trialling eight pilot schemes in built-up areas with a 20mph limit before adopting the new speed limit measure by 2023. Calls are now being made to extend the 20mph speed limit across the country
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Californian 7/18/2021 1:13:48 PM (No. 849687)
EV cars work just fine. The problem is recharge time which makes them bad for long trips vs non EV. The other potential problem is I have yet to see any numbers for what will happen to the power grid if everyone is driving an EV.
10 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/18/2021 1:17:02 PM (No. 849691)
Anyone who drives in London is certifiable.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
PCMM 7/18/2021 1:18:35 PM (No. 849692)
It’s much easier to text and post on Instagram while idling along at 20mph.
18 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
bad-hair 7/18/2021 1:39:55 PM (No. 849707)
I love the speed bumps and chicanes. We develop comfortable roads to affect the smooth flow of traffic and then put bumps on them to disrupt that. Also bumps result in excessive braking and accelerating creating higher exhaust emissions.
13 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 7/18/2021 1:43:55 PM (No. 849710)
20 mph speed limits? So that electric golf carts can be road legal, I guess.
Making it impossible to live there.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 7/18/2021 1:49:21 PM (No. 849716)
If you are dumb enough to drive a car in London and if you are equally dumb enough to allow your so-called government to march you into an era of Marxism, you deserve this, too. It's all about control and reduction of the masses. I refer you to the Great Reset.
13 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
chance_232 7/18/2021 1:52:46 PM (No. 849718)
Does this 20mph limit apply to government officials and government motorcade. Or is the new limit for the little people?
Wait until businesses discover that they are paying their employees to muddle thru traffic with LESS productivity.
Or......I. sorry that I couldn't make it for your emergency. You know, that 20mph limit.
Whats funny, my truck will idle at 15-20.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 7/18/2021 2:07:08 PM (No. 849726)
Silly me, I thought cars were outlawed in London and all of Europe was on the metric system.
8 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 7/18/2021 2:07:37 PM (No. 849729)
I could see where maybe the 20MPH might mean fewer serious injuries in accidents, not fewer accidents. Also, how would this help reduce 'global warming'? For example, if I drive 40 miles at 40MPH to get somewhere, instead of my car spewing pollutants for one hour, it will now be two hours. Right?
9 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/18/2021 2:12:39 PM (No. 849734)
When we drove from east to west and south to north - a weeks-long trip to show me all of the UK - we saw mostly narrow little roads where drivers sometimes have to pull over to let others pass. City streets were not necessarily wide. And everyone drives on the left. We’re not talking Montana...
14 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 7/18/2021 2:19:27 PM (No. 849738)
It's funny they use Miles per Hour when everything was supposed to be metric by now in the UK. The old Imperial measurements live on.
8 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
mc squared 7/18/2021 2:43:08 PM (No. 849744)
The picture of the 20 in the red circle is ambiguous to me. 20 K is about 14 MPH. The revenuers, insurance companies and the speed camera manufacturers should make out very well.
And a 20 ( 14km?) limit allows more time to text and drive. Maybe even watch a Youtube when driving.
Anybody up for an English Cannonball from the Channel to the Atlantic?
6 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
coldoc 7/18/2021 4:07:02 PM (No. 849798)
Tough on those McLaren owners.
3 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
lftrn97 7/18/2021 4:24:43 PM (No. 849806)
#1..read your first sentence and then the next three words. That says it all from the EV uber alles crowd.
3 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 7/18/2021 5:19:30 PM (No. 849841)
English speed limits are in MPH. But still...that's ridiculously slow.
And, yes, a lot of British roads are really narrow and twisty.
An old saying: In the USA, 100 years ago is a long time, and 100 miles is a short drive. In England, 100 years ago was a short time, and 100 miles is a long drive. VERY true. If you need to be somewhere 100 miles away, unless it is right on a motorway, with no heavy traffic, plan on three plus hours to get there. Really. And it can be really "fun" to come across a huge tour bus on a road that is 3 ft wider than the width of the bus.....and the wheat field runs RIGHT to the edge of the road. I have backed a 1/4 mile finding a place to pull off and let the bus pass.
All that said.....20 mph is too slow for a lot of places.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
chumley 7/18/2021 5:58:48 PM (No. 849861)
Here in the US we have school zones with similar speed limits. It is so ridiculously slow that traffic stacks up bumper to bumper and they have to have a live cop to make everyone stop so the kids can cross the street. Often the limits are ignored. Unreasonably slow speed limits just make things worse.
6 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
Dr. Constant 7/18/2021 6:49:06 PM (No. 849888)
Considering that many of the roads in London were build for horse drawn transportation or pedestrians, and some of them go back to medieval or even Roman times. This is not as weird as it sounds. In Houston or LA this would be overly onerous, maybe not in 1600 year old city.
Just saying.
4 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/18/2021 6:52:22 PM (No. 849890)
Have you ever driven at length at 20 mph? It's absolutely maddening. Even the car gets impatient.
4 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/18/2021 11:05:23 PM (No. 849991)
Impatience doesn’t work in England in many ways. And a wheat field close to the side of the narrow road is one thing. Too often there are hedgerows or stone walls...
2 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
Historybuff 7/18/2021 11:47:59 PM (No. 850001)
Why did the Siamese twins move to England?
So the other one could drive.
3 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
MickTurn 7/19/2021 10:59:57 AM (No. 850343)
Might as well ride a bicycle (with a raincoat for bad weather)...
The Brits have gone down the Leftist Rabbit Hole and can't find their way out!
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A government-funded study found no significant reduction in accidents when speed limits were reduced to 20 mph, but the real goal is to get people ready for the mandated battery-powered cars, which don't work, and later for rickshaws, bicycles, and hoofing it. Part and parcel of the third-world peasant lifestyles we're going to love, created for us by Marxism.