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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for North Wales and Transport: Priorities for Transport: Listening, partnership, making change
… three priorities: to listen, to work in partnership and to make change happen where it is needed. On 20 mph, we have started that listening. I have been clear in all my conversations that we will put communities … consensus on safe speeds in communities that we can build from. The Welsh Government continues to believe that 20 mph is the right speed limit in places such as near schools, hospitals, nurseries, community centres, play areas and …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Transport
… taken in the coming weeks and months in regard to all matters related to transport, and particularly to 20 mph. But I must say again that I really strongly feel across the Chamber there is support for 20 … areas it all makes sense, it all makes people feel safer. But we do need to make sure 20 mph is truly targeted in those places, as we always promised it would be. And we'll need …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Transport
… organisations, there could be a targeted campaign to provide information, to give confidence, concentrating on an area. Regarding 20 mph, we need to move forward in partnership with councils who have—. Sorry, going back to public transport … well, going forward, to trial capped fares, and also maybe looking at young people as well. Regarding 20 mph, we need to move forward in partnership with councils who have collated lists of roads to be made …
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Topical Questions
… that the focus for the consultation will be that people living on particular roads, where that road is 20 mph, will be asked to express a view. Now, obviously, a lot of people across Wales will have views … but particularly people who live on a road or cul-de-sac that might be just off a 20 mph road. So, can I be really clear, Minister, today that the views of people who live …
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Topical Questions
… the ability to make changes. We know that local authorities are already collating lists of roads where 20 mph doesn't feel like the right speed. They understandably haven't wanted to act hastily, as people were getting … professor of transport and sustainable development at University College London. Professor Jones has had no involvement in the 20 mph implementation or work, and will provide independent challenge to the process. The other two members of the panel …
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Topical Questions
… now find themselves in an even more difficult position as a direct result of Welsh Government's default 20 mph speed limit. Bus provider Arriva is having to change every one of their bus services in north Wales … affect their jobs, their families, their social lives—all because of an unwanted roll-out of a 20 mph default speed limit. This, of course, is in stark contrast to the Welsh Government's stated aim of getting …
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
The 20 mph Speed Limit: Scrutiny session with the Deputy Minister for Climate Change
… the speed limit is 30. Now, Welsh Government could potentially have changed that and, in the move to 20 mph, retained the ability to put 20 mph repeater signs, but then we would have fallen into the same … problem. Wales would have to be covered with hundreds of thousands, probably, of 20 mph signs to make that change. And it was felt better to stick with the system that we'd had since 1936 of the …
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Bus services
… climate change measure; it certainly would have helped me with the criticism around the roads review and the 20 mph introduction. So, there are all sorts of advantages to doing it. But we simply didn't have the … disingenuous. I'd like to turn to the point made by Natasha Asghar around the impact of 20 mph speed limits, and I've just come from a meeting with the managing director of a bus company, and …
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Bus services
… were made even worse for bus operators on 17 September, when the Welsh Labour Government brought out the 20 mph scheme. Another bus industry official has told me, and I'm going to quote them word for word … get to encourage people behind public transport. This comes despite the Deputy Minister playing down the impact his 20 mph scheme would have on buses. He said this move was unlikely to significantly affect buses. Well …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Deputy Minister for Climate Change
Llywydd, the default 20 mph speed limit in residential areas is an important policy, primarily for road safety, and the petition to the Senedd and, indeed, other expressions of concern are significant, and there should be action … person at 30 mph is more likely to cause death or serious injury than a car travelling at 20 mph. People readily understand that, and they understand that stopping times and distances are very different too. And they …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Deputy Minister for Climate Change
… last night and I had 3,200 viewers, and only a portion of that actually had issues about 20 mph. I answered every single question and, as we do it in Caerphilly, it was done with respect, and … with this outside schools and hospitals.' Well, the exemption criteria says the only place you can't exempt 20 mph without a very good reason is within a 100m walk of any educational setting, within 100m walk …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: The Restricted Roads (20 mph Speed Limit) (Wales) Order 2022
… media ad nauseam—and I use 'ad nauseam' wisely—loyal Welsh Conservatives have trotted out the line 'blanket 20 mph speed limits'. It's a load of old tosh, it's a load of cobblers. A leading Western … issue and posed the question, 'is it actually true that the Welsh Government is bringing in a "blanket 20mph limit"?' It's a very interesting read. He looks at the standard definition of what a blanket limit would …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: The Restricted Roads (20 mph Speed Limit) (Wales) Order 2022
… This policy has not been thought out. It's unsophisticated and it's blunt. No-one disagrees with 20 mph around all of those obvious areas of high footfall, residential areas, shopping centres. But the truth is the … councils can look for further exemptions, but we know they will have to lower almost every road to 20 mph first and then, eventually, once money is found and traffic—[Interruption.] Once money is found and traffic orders …
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Statement by the Deputy Minister for Climate Change: 20 mph default speed limit on restricted roads
… understand it, as the graphics tell you exactly what's happening and how to understand where it's 20 mph. My main question, Minister, is really around the approaches that local authorities have made, because some have paid … attention to this than others. Certainly Cardiff haven't waited for 17 September to get on with implementing 20 mph zones. So, in my constituency, there won't actually be very much change in the road signage …
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Statement by the Deputy Minister for Climate Change: 20 mph default speed limit on restricted roads
… Stockholm declaration on road safety that says that, where people and traffic mix, the speed limit should be 20 mph. That's where it's needed, that's where this will apply, and local authorities have the discretion … Not all of them will travel exclusively by car, nor will they commute solely on roads where a 20 mph limit will be applied. Therefore, we do not foresee these changes adversely affecting our overall response times, and …
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Questions to the First Minister
… and it's a safe move. A person is seven times less likely to die if hit at 20 mph than 30 mph, or 10 times if they're over the age of 60.' The Member ended … saying: 'The de-facto standard for safer and people-friendly streets is now 20 mph with higher limits only where they can be justified.' Well, I agreed with what Janet Finch-Saunders said in that debate …
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
… you're well aware, last week we debated a petition calling for the blanket roll-out of 20 mph speed limits here in Wales to be scrapped. You know my position on the matter, and I think everyone … does by now, but, for anyone who doesn't, I'm all for targeted 20 mph limits outside schools, play areas, busy high streets, but not a Wales-wide move. I want to thank the Chair of the …
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Debate on petition P-06-1340, 'Stop the change of speed limits to 20mph on 17th September'
Accidents don't have to happen. I support the 20 mph adoption, of course, but I do want to thank the petitioners. It's really, really important that we have this process, and it's important that this … the petitioners. Firstly, there is a little bit of concern around the research and the evaluation of 20 mph zones and limits and what they actually do produce. Well, I did a very quick search myself. The first …
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Sustainability of Welsh Bus Services - evidence session with local government
… through it. But, undoubtedly, the pressure on local government from all these different facets—. If you consider the 20 mph roll-out, again, the principle of it, I think, is pretty universally supported. However, we have had some … had is that having a blanket for all side streets is understandable, but the criteria to deviate from 20 mph, even on roads such as, for example, the main road right through the Rhondda, from the top …
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you for that answer, Deputy Minister. More often than not, the roll-out of 20 mph speed limits is a hot topic of conversation, especially when I meet businesses and residents in my region, whether that … spoke with one major business in my region recently and they are very concerned about the impact that 20 mph will have on their trade. At the moment, they make hundreds of deliveries every day, but with this …