Posted on 07/16/2024 11:23:29 PM PDT by RandFan
The Welsh Labour government is set to scrap its blanket 20mph speed limits just a year after they were introduced.
Ken Skates, the Welsh transport minister, admitted 'errors have been made' with the scheme, which is set to be reverted in September this year with the introduction of new guidance across the country.
This will allow local authorities to raise the speed limit to be back to 30mph on certain roads 'outside urban centres and rural residential roads with no nearby facilities'.
They will also be increased on major routes, such as bus corridors, with minimal cyclist and pedestrian traffic and on some urban roads.
It comes after more than half a million signatures were added to a Senedd petition opposing the divisive policy aimed at reducing carbon emissions.
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Who would have thought...
Then why on earth did they elect Labour?
Traditionally they always have in Wales
Interesting to see this humility.
Stupid is as stupid does and the left is really stupid
I imagine it’s about power and “letting them suffer” rather than the environment. The government could have researched and found cars are more efficient at 45-55 mph, meaning less pollution.
And I thought 55mph was nuts.
Because reform split form the toxic con. They were first past the post.
20? Even on the M4 motorway? What a bunch of dopes. As if Wales is just one big village or an HOA.
Didn't Great Britan convert to metric after we started out performing them with their own measuring system and many years before we landed on the moon?
It never caught on and the old system still used often side by side the other one !
Drive slower and longer to reduce carbon emissions? That’s rich. A lot like driving 55 was. Yes, I know about increased resistance as the speed increases.
In the 1980s (before computers in cars), I was talking to an automobile engineer. He told me that you could optimize cars for certain speed ranges up until the low 50s, because that was when wind resistance became a significant determinant.
There is a very straight road near my house that does not have hills for about 5 miles. One boring afternoon, I took that stretch three times at three speeds in my Honda CRV with a 6 speed transmission. The first time I drove at 45. The second time I drove at 55 and the third time I drove at 65. I reset my gas usage indicator at speed at a certain point and ended it at a certain point. One the first run, I got about 49 miles per gallon. The second run, I got about 46 miles per gallon. One the third run, I got 43 miles per gallon.
This 💩 will end when enough of us refuse to comply.
F=ma
That, and an aging driving population are why 55 makes some sense.
That was never the case with the 20 MPH crap.
There’s also highway design, larger vehicles, vehicles more prone to tripping...
In any case, if Deep State wanted safer roadways they’d come at it from law enforcement and insurance angles, and they are doing just the opposite.
This was never about public safety.
In the 1980s (before computers in cars), I was talking to an automobile engineer. He told me that you could optimize cars for certain speed ranges up until the low 50s, because that was when wind resistance became a significant determinant.
There is a very straight road near my house that does not have hills for about 5 miles. One boring afternoon, I took that stretch three times at three speeds in my Honda CRV with a 6 speed transmission. The first time I drove at 45. The second time I drove at 55 and the third time I drove at 65. I reset my gas usage indicator at speed at a certain point and ended it at a certain point. One the first run, I got about 49 miles per gallon. The second run, I got about 46 miles per gallon. One the third run, I got 43 miles per gallon.
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