Discuss - Transport 20mph Speed Limits - Reduce the speed limit to 20mph on residential roads

Are you in favour of reducing the 30mph speed limit to 20mph on all residential roads?

Alliance Party "Its time we looked at more new and radical ways to tackling this blight on society. I believe that Northern Ireland should pilot a 20mph speed limit to see whether this can reduce injuries and fatalities. Reducing speed limits in known accident hotspots is a positive measure that would I believe help increase road safety. A 20 mph speed limit has already been piloted outside some schools and this initiative should be tested in other areas." - Alliance Party Councillor Stewart Dickson, http://allianceparty.org/article/2009/0004590/time-for-20mph-limits-for-accident-hotspots

Conservative "It was the Conservative Government, in the early 1990s, that first introduced trial schemes of 20 mph limits. The system at first was rather cumbersome, with Government approval required in every case to change the speed limit, and high costs due to extra signage requirements and traffic calming measures." Source: Parliament

Green Party The Green Party would reduce speed limits to 20mph in built-up areas, including villages. On motorways and trunk roads they propose reducing the speed limit to 55mph and 40mph on rural roads. The party believe that this will make our roads safer for all users. Source: Green Party Manifesto

Labour Labour shadow transport secretary Mary Creagh has said that a 20mph limit across all urban areas will make roads "much nice for everyone", proposing a new enforcement in villages, towns and cities across the UK. Creagh said, "20 mile an hour zones, what do they do? They immediately cut deaths on the road, so some of the central london, City of London has done it Islington has done it deaths down from 110 a year to about 77 a year. 40 fewer dead people in one tiny London borough as a result of that change. that is a massive gain, if we can replicate that cross the country, that is a massive gain." Source: Telegraph, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/transport/11113207/Extend-20-mph-limit-across-all-urban-areas-to-allow-children-to-roam-wild-Labour-shadow-transport-secretary-says.html

Liberal Democrat 7 March 2015 - Liberal Democrats have proposed plans in their Green Transport Act to cut the speed limit on some roads to 10mph in order to reduce noise and air pollution. Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-2984271/Lib-Dems-ponder-10mph-speed-limit.html

Plaid Cymru Plaid Cymru supports increasing the number of 20mph zones, especially around schools, but in whichever neighbourhoods where there is local demand.

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