The Welsh parliament has passed a law bringing down the speed limit on all residential roads and busy streets to 20 mph (30 km/h). Not everyone is pleased.
My local council (UK) are rolling it out on a town-by-town basis over the next 3 years. I’m pretty sure they’d do it quicker if they had the finances to buy that many new road signs all at once. It does mean the process is a bit confusing, since traditionally there are other visual cues for what a road’s speed limit is, which generally mean even if you don’t see the signs, you still know what the limit is. Now those visual cues aren’t consistent between towns (two roads with the same visual cues, such as “street lights in an urban area”, have different speed limits depending on which town you go to.) Since I live equidistant between two very similar towns that now have different speed limit rules… I wish the council had just changed all the speed limits at once!
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This is becoming more and more the default speed limit in German cities (30 kmh actually, which is more or less the same).
My local council (UK) are rolling it out on a town-by-town basis over the next 3 years. I’m pretty sure they’d do it quicker if they had the finances to buy that many new road signs all at once. It does mean the process is a bit confusing, since traditionally there are other visual cues for what a road’s speed limit is, which generally mean even if you don’t see the signs, you still know what the limit is. Now those visual cues aren’t consistent between towns (two roads with the same visual cues, such as “street lights in an urban area”, have different speed limits depending on which town you go to.) Since I live equidistant between two very similar towns that now have different speed limit rules… I wish the council had just changed all the speed limits at once!
30 mph = 48 kph. That’s not really the same at all.
30 mph isn’t an unreasonable default speed, but 30 kph is really slow unless you’re talking a dense city core.
You misread the comment. They said 30 kilometers per hour, not 30 miles per hour.
20 mph are 32 kph. This is pretty much the same, isn’t it? I think you might have misread my comment somehow.
Oops yeah, totally misread!
Netherlands too. Amsterdam is even planning to change major inner city roads to 30km/h (minor roads already are).