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Reform UK Debate: Default 20 mph speed limit
… being repeated here. Let's just be clear that that isn't related to 91 deaths on 20 mph or 30 mph roads; that's across the piece. So, if we're going to talk about something that … related to 20 mph and 30 mph, like Vikki, I would like that to be explained when Jason wraps up. The other thing I'd like to say is that the motion before us from Reform didn …
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Reform UK Debate: Default 20 mph speed limit
… separate questions in this debate, and too often they're deliberately rolled into one. The first is whether 20 mph is right in some places. Well, of course it is; we're not going to argue with you … these benches disputes that lower speeds make collisions less severe. The second question is very different: should 20 mph be the default for restricted roads—I'm not going to use that term—across Wales, with communities left …
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Reform UK Debate: Default 20 mph speed limit
… for using the word 'blanket'. Anyway, we knew at that time, when the road network was subjected to 20 mph, 2024, it increased from 2 per cent to 37 per cent by road length. The Welsh Government … council's planning and orders committee approved 22 of 25 exception proposals to return sections of road from 20 mph to 30 mph. And as Helen Jenner has quite rightly mentioned, the cost of this makes this institution …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: 20mph speed limits
They found that reducing speed limits from 30 mph to 20 mph had little impact on road safety. You dismissed that. They claimed in September 2023 that, in Spain, which already had 20 mph as their default position … including motorcyclists, pedestrians and cyclists, experienced a 9 per cent rise in fatalities. To say that the indiscriminate 20 mph speed limit has been unpopular would be an understatement. As we know, 469,571 people signed the Senedd …
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Reform UK Debate: Default 20 mph speed limit
… pedestrian struck by a vehicle faces roughly a 50 per cent chance of suffering a severe injury; at 20 mph, that risk falls to 10 per cent. And let's be honest, even most of the loudest critics … the policy don't deny this. After all, they too usually want 20 mph limits outside schools, they are happy to have them outside hospitals and they think they're important around playgrounds and care homes. In other …
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Reform UK Debate: Default 20 mph speed limit
… injured on Welsh roads, and I think anybody who says that is disgraceful. The question is whether making 20 mph the default across thousands of miles of roads is the right way to achieve the objective of decreasing … deaths on Welsh roads since 2019. I'm aware that the increase in deaths was not necessarily on 20 mph roads, but the aim of an overall reduction in road traffic deaths has not been achieved. There …
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Reform UK Debate: Default 20 mph speed limit
… want to concentrate my contribution on what the 20 mph default policy has actually meant for communities and councils across my constituency of Bangor Conwy Môn. When the default policy—the default policy—was first introduced, local authorities … road through rural Ynys Môn or Dyffryn Conwy. Yet the policy started from the assumption that 20 mph should be the norm and then forced councils to work backwards from there. It was nothing less than lazy politics …
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Reform UK Debate: Default 20 mph speed limit
… this motion, submitted in the name of my colleague Llŷr Powell. Three years ago, Labour imposed the default 20 mph limit across Wales. They told motorists that it was necessary. They told communities it would make them safer … billion in an act of economic self-harm. That's the price of Plaid and Labour's 20 mph policy. But there's an even bigger issue: road safety. The inescapable fact is that Welsh road deaths are …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: 20mph speed limits
… people and a motor vehicle, that road casualty figures have reduced following the introduction of the default 20 mph, that insurance companies are considering reducing premiums due to the reduced speed limit. According to data from the Royal … deaths as a result of collision with a vehicle is over five times more than at speeds between 20 mph and 30 mph. There’s consensus among the people I talk to that 20 mph is a suitable …
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Debate on petition P-06-1340, 'Stop the change of speed limits to 20mph on 17th September'
… speaking today because I drive at 20 mph or less on residential roads. I say that, because twice in the last month I would have been in a serious accident if I had driven at 30 mph. The … was when a car pulled out from a parking area near the Guildhall. Again travelling at less than 20 mph, I stopped without a collision. At 30 mph, I would have had a collision and probably another serious …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: 20mph speed limits
Peredur supports 20 mph and suggested that a reduction in accidents has happened. He gave us several statistics. We've heard lots of statistics today, often contradicting each other. But he went on to criticise the Labour Government … was challenged, as we heard, later on. And we agree with Mike. Everybody agrees in this Chamber that 20 mph should be in place on those residential streets. Nobody disagrees with that and never have, as I recall …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: 20mph speed limits
… think, a year on, it's fair to say that the 20 mph policy has been much criticised, but it's a policy that is succeeding in achieving its outcomes. The data so far shows that average speeds … interested in the Conservatives’ plan to scrap the speed limit and in their alternative. Natasha Asghar says that 20 mph should apply on roads where there is a large pedestrian activity, such as outside busy places of worship …
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Debate on petition P-06-1340, 'Stop the change of speed limits to 20mph on 17th September'
… all those who've made it possible? Because, in a matter of months, this hugely damaging blanket 20 mph plan is set to come into force. Now, today marks Eid, as my colleague Altaf Hussain made … Wales.' Now, nearly 100,000 people have signed various petitions calling for the blanket roll-out of 20 mph speed limits to be scrapped. Let that resonate: 100,000 people, including 21,920 people who backed the petition …
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Reform UK Debate: Default 20 mph speed limit
… point out that Plaid Cymru also support this, as do the Greens. When some people say that the 20 mph default limit infringes their freedom, they're ignoring the freedom of those people—the freedom to walk safely … are unable to drive. That brings me to the practical alternative that is so often proposed: selective 20 mph zones for those schools, hospitals, care homes and playgrounds. Let's consider what that would mean in practice. The …
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Reform UK Debate: Default 20 mph speed limit
… the start of this debate, it's worth remembering why the previous Welsh Labour Government introduced the 20 mph policy. That's to protect children and families from road collisions, to make our roads safer and, ultimately … when hit by a vehicle travelling at around 30 mph than they are from a vehicle travelling around 20 mph. And taking evidence from closer to home, Dr David Hanna, University Hospital of Wales paediatric emergency consultant said …
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The Restricted Roads (20 mph Speed Limit) (Wales) Order 2022
… schools, playgrounds and high streets where cars are permitted. As Edmund King, the president of the AA, said, '20 mph limits work best where they’re needed—outside schools or hospitals, or places where other vulnerable road users … and my colleagues have been inundated with over the past few weeks that the trialling of the 20 mph speed restrictions is causing major problems on busy commuter roads, and is undeniably a problem faced by communities all …
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: 20mph speed limits
… pleased to be taking part in this debate this afternoon. It’s now over a year since the 20 mph was introduced in September last year. Perhaps we should take a moment to reflect and recollect the events … more commonsense approach was needed. We’ve also heard from the First Minister that the way the 20 mph law was implemented created problems, in her own words. The new Cabinet Secretary for transport acknowledged that some roads …
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Statement by the Deputy Minister for Climate Change: 20 mph default speed limit on restricted roads
… mph, they are around five times more likely to be killed than if they are hit at 20 mph. It’s simple: lower speeds save lives. By the time a car travelling at 20 mph has come … somewhere between 1,200 and 2,000 people annually avoiding injury in Wales once we’ve moved to 20 mph. So, as well as reducing human misery, this will also ease pressure on our overstretched emergency services. Casualty …
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Debate on petition P-06-1407, 'We want the Welsh Government to rescind and remove the disastrous 20mph law'
… written letters to their representatives and truly made their voices heard over this Labour, Plaid and Lib Dem 20 mph policy. Just shy of 500,000 people put their name to this petition to have the Welsh Labour … Government's 20 mph speed limit project axed, smashing records to become the most signed petition of this Parliament's 25-year-old history. The sheer number of people who signed this petition in such a short space …
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Statement by the Deputy Minister for Climate Change: 20 mph default speed limit on restricted roads
Thank you, Deputy Minister, for your statement this afternoon on your deeply unpopular 20 mph pet project. It's no secret here, and I've been saying since day one, that I, alongside my colleagues, the Welsh Conservatives … have no problem with 20 mph being outside schools, places of worship, high streets—places where they're needed. But I'm afraid my position on this hasn't changed over the summer, much to your disappointment …