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Business Statement and Announcement
… course, if you see street lighting less than 200 yards apart, then the national speed limit is 20 mph. But, unfortunately, many people assume it, in those situations, to still be 60 mph, because it's a single … looked at in Glasfryn? As I say, the national speed limit sign can mean 70, 60, or indeed 20 mph, but not all motorists are aware of that, or familiar with those rules. So, clearly, a 20 mph …
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Questions to the First Minister
… school and a hospital, and a clinic, and a chemist and in some residential areas it should be 20 mph. The thing is, that's nearly every road in the Rhondda.' So, he was supportive of the policy … pointed to the fact that, in some places, speed limits go from 20 mph to 30 mph, and sometimes revert to 20 mph again. That's exactly the sort of issue that we will look …
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Questions to the First Minister
… been cut, leading to reductions in routes and timetables across Wales, but we've also seen the default 20 mph scheme causing chaos with bus timetabling too. Arriva Bus, last month, said the new limit is causing 'challenging … spoke to a bus company in my region, Adventure Travel, who were only too happy to say that 20 mph is, 'causing running times issues', and they were also looking at the possibility of amending timetables …
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The 20 mph Speed Limit: Scrutiny session with the Deputy Minister for Climate Change
… part of this meeting, which is a scrutiny session with the Deputy Minister for Climate Change regarding the 20 mph speed limit. So, I welcome Lee Waters, the Deputy Minister for Climate Change—thank you for coming … officials, Christopher Warner, deputy director of transport strategy and policy with Welsh Government, Phil Jones, chair of the 20 mph taskforce, and Kaarina Ruta, who's a transport assistant and lead for 20 mph from the Welsh Local …
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
… question, Presiding Officer. Deputy Minister, it's been just over a month now since your 20 mph speed limit project came into force. Despite what you and your colleagues are repeatedly saying again and again and again … public are still not on board with it, no matter how you paint this picture to me. Before 20 mph speed limits were introduced, a poll showed 46 per cent supported the measure, 34 per cent opposed …
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Questions to the First Minister
… thought of this, Llywydd, as I drove to Labour's conference in Liverpool, passing all of those 20 mph streets; every residential street you pass is 20 mph, as it was in Chester when I drove near the … border there—20 mph speed limits in residential areas are happening everywhere. Here in Wales, we will see the benefit of it, and we'll see the benefit of it in the most important way; lives will …
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Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
… you'll be aware of the hotly contested debates in this Chamber in recent weeks around the default 20 mph roll-out here in Wales. Indeed, you'll be fully aware of the petition of over … signatures seeking to reverse decisions around the default 20 mph. You'll also be aware that councils in Wales are struggling financially at the moment. Many are having to find significant budget cuts to balance their budgets …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Deputy Minister for Climate Change
… want to go back either. On streets where people and traffic mix, the evidence is very clear—that 20 mph saves lives and cuts casualties. And, yes, there is opposition, but there's plenty of support, too. But … give this time. Llywydd, the debate has shifted. There now seems to be a broad agreement that 20 mph is the right speed outside schools, health settings and residential areas. That wasn't the case four years ago …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Deputy Minister for Climate Change
… that not one Member here is against looking into road safety? Not one of us would vote against 20 mph outside schools or hospitals. The non-binding Member debate that I voted in four years ago was based … limited evidence we had before us and therefore called for more evidence to be gathered on introducing more 20 mph in residential areas. It was not a vote on the Welsh Government's default, blanket 20 mph approach …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Deputy Minister for Climate Change
… populism, which harms us all, because politics demands better. There have been real problems with how the 20 mph policy has been implemented. That's why we in Plaid Cymru tabled an amendment to a motion a few … communities, to make resources readily available for councils to make exemptions to the policy on those roads where 20 mph doesn't make sense. It is a shame that the Tories decided not to support that amendment, not …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Deputy Minister for Climate Change
… March this year. It's been nearly two weeks since this Labour Government's costly and unwanted 20 mph speed limit scheme was forced onto the people of Wales. In a short time, opposition to the move has … scrapped. In comparison, the man who represents the area, who is also Labour's poster boy for this 20 mph scheme, received fewer than 14,000 votes in the last election. This really doesn't sound like the …
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
… you. Well, the Welsh Government has stated previously both that local authorities have the discretion to change the 20 mph limit and that, in Spain, where they have 20 mph as their default position, urban deaths and road … per cent. How do you therefore respond to the Flintshire county councillor representing part of your Buckley 20 mph pilot area, who wrote last week, stating, 'Unfortunately, Welsh Government don't appear to have learnt any lessons from …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: The Restricted Roads (20 mph Speed Limit) (Wales) Order 2022
… realise that it's the Conservatives that run Cornwall County Council and several other county councils? Introducing a 20 mph scheme in Cornwall was a key Conservative manifesto pledge, and they introduced the 20 mph scheme in Cornwall … against your own party colleagues in Cornwall and elsewhere in the United Kingdom when they roll out the 20 mph schemes in those local authorities …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: The Restricted Roads (20 mph Speed Limit) (Wales) Order 2022
… every corner of Wales. She made a number of very important points, including questioning whether the default 20 mph speed limit is just the tip of the iceberg. I note the Deputy Minister didn't answer this point … concern with the costs and the time associated with reverting roads back to 30 mph from the default 20 mph. We know it's not a straightforward mechanism, and, of course, it's an area that Welsh Government …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: The Restricted Roads (20 mph Speed Limit) (Wales) Order 2022
… signed a statement of opinion that led to them adding their names to a debate urging a default 20 mph limit in residential areas and actually went on to say, 'We'd like to emulate … England', Conservatives who in a debate in 2020 all bar one backed this proposal for a default 20 mph limit—one exception. The other ones who backed it, by the way, were the kippers, the Reform Party and …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: The Restricted Roads (20 mph Speed Limit) (Wales) Order 2022
… know full well that not a single Member on these Conservative benches have ever voted for a blanket 20 mph speed limit since the sixth Senedd term. FYI, when the Senedd debated this backward policy earlier in the … this proposal and the verdict is resounding: they do not want this costly, ill-thought-out, disastrous blanket 20 mph speed limit project; they want to see a targeted approach, with the speed limit reduced outside schools, playgrounds …
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Questions to the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip
… what discussions the Minister has had with the police regarding the implications for them of the forthcoming blanket 20 mph speed limit in Wales, where, in a North Wales Live survey last month, 88 per cent opposed this … Behind the Welsh Government's selective evidence, we know that independent 20 mph research studies for the UK transport department found no significant safety outcome in terms of collisions and casualties, and research by Queen's University, Belfast …
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Questions to the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip
… for that supplementary question. As I said, the emergency services, including our fire service, were part of the 20 mph taskforce, and, of course, that was the taskforce that made the recommendation for 20 mph to become the … benefits of driving at lower speeds. But I think what is most important, which they recognise, is that 20 mph could result every year in Wales in 40 per cent fewer collisions, six to 10 lives saved, and …
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Questions to the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip
… you've given your permission for questions 1 and 8 to be grouped. So, in response, the new 20 mph speed limit is not a blanket limit. Emergency services were part of the 20 mph taskforce that made … the recommendation for 20 mph to become the default speed limit on restricted roads, and the police believe response times will not be affected, and the fire service does not foresee these changes adversely affecting their overall response …
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Debate on petition P-06-1340, 'Stop the change of speed limits to 20mph on 17th September'
… you, have driven it—is a very difficult example to look at, because some sections clearly should be 20 mph, and some sections clearly should be 30 mph. We took an approach, as Carolyn said, for the purposes … they have a clear and reasoned case. The guidance sets a set of criteria where we think 20 mph should apply. Because this is a national scheme, we need consistency. And that is based on the expert—[Interruption …