Comment on 85% Of Car Drivers Break 20mph Speed Limits, Reveals U.K.’s Department For Transport
Tweak@feddit.uk 10 months agoWell, if it wasn’t for otherwise good citizens breaking laws they know to be wrong, those laws would never get changed.
Comment on 85% Of Car Drivers Break 20mph Speed Limits, Reveals U.K.’s Department For Transport
Tweak@feddit.uk 10 months agoWell, if it wasn’t for otherwise good citizens breaking laws they know to be wrong, those laws would never get changed.
C4d@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I don’t think that law is going to get changed by repeatedly breaking it.
I also don’t think it is a bad law. The probability of a pedestrian being fatally injured at 20mph is lower than at 30mph; older studies showed a nearly tenfold reduction; not sure what the figures would be now with the trend towards larger and heavier vehicles (and the offset by pedestrian-friendly design - EuroNCAP score for this). For residential and pedestrian heavy areas I think 20mph is appropriate.
It is also worth bearing in mind that several areas in the UK have already committed to 20mph for residential areas.
I think the more likely outcome is going to be changes to roads and enforcement.
Here’s a .pdf factsheet from RoSPA that looks at 20mph zones.