13.03.2026 06:47
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It's good to see another English county rolling out 20mph limits. www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/gcc-news/new...
The legislation amending the Traffic Signs Regulations is available at www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2026/35/...
It's another huge benefit for pedestrians from 20mph in Wales as legislation passed today enables councils to install simplified side zebra crossings at junctions where the main and side roads have a 20mph limit.
I think we need a conversation. 80% of child casualties are when NOT walking to or from school. See www.20splenty.org/school_gate_...
Sounds like some people are having difficulty with this "Safe System approach" idea.
Good to see another 3,690 20mph roads coming to Glasgow as Scotland aligns its urban/village speed limits with global best practice. www.glasgow.gov.uk/article/8943...
It's good to see our 20's Plenty Wheelie Bin Stickers in the news.
Oxfordshire has now launched 275 20mph schemes! All locally requested and approved by Cllrs of all political parties. Because people like 20mph where they live.
Also @oxfordshirecc.bsky.social is giving away FREE 20mph stickers. @20splenty.bsky.social
news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/get-your-fre...
The government's new Road Safety Strategy targets a 65% reduction in all KSIs and a 70% reduction in child KSIs over next 10 years.
In GB 50% of all KSIs and 64% of child KSIs are on 30mph roads.
Welsh 20mph/30mph casualties fell by 26% and KSIs by 15% after setting a default 20mph limit.
Yet another report shows that taking a Safe System approach to Road Safety mandates a default 30km/h (20mph) limit. With the UK Road Safety Strategy adopting the Safe System approach then a default urban/village 20mph limit is inevitable. road-safety.transport.ec.europa.eu/document/dow...
If you commit to a Safe System approach in your Road Safety Strategy then implicit in that are survivable speed limits where motors mix with people on urban/village roads. And that means 20mph except for where higher limits can be evidentially justified as safe. www.20splenty.org/guidance_2026
So BBC gives credibility to:
The guy caught doing over 25mph 3 times in the last year.
The person who doesn't know that the enforcement threshold is 26mph.
The mechanic who doesn't know that diesels need to do 40mph+ to clear DPFs.
Those who don't care about a 26% reduction in casualties.
Not actually. They decided against setting a national default. There were good reasons for this, particularly around several LAs already having set 20mph for most urban/village roads. Instead they funded and facilitated a de-facto default. www.transport.gov.scot/media/3yxfd5...
In Scotland it was part of the Bute House Agreement agreement between SNP and The Green Party. The plan to fund and facilitate 20mph as a national standard was announced at our 2023 conference in Edinburgh. New guidance made 20mph the de-facto default. See www.transport.gov.scot/media/3yxfd5...
See our blog on this which references Wales and Scotland within an English context at www.20splenty.org/guidance_2026
I am not aware of any, but I would be pleased to provide an interview/briefing on the detail of the Welsh implementation compared to implementations at authority level in England and Scotland. You could start with www.20splenty.org/w_faqs which gives a lot of the background see w_faq04
In announcing the UKGov's Road Safety Strategy the English guidance on setting local speed becomes obsolete to be replaced with one based on a Safe System approach. This already exists as the Scottish criteria for 20mph as an urban/village norm as follows. See www.20splenty.org/guidance_2026
It's good to see that the Welsh media are recognising that all the evidence shows that 20mph limits have significantly reduced death and injury on urban/village roads.
Its good to see this interview with Jon Burke on TalkTV.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ljs...
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”
Can councils afford the waste from maintaining 30mph limits where people mix with motors? The data tells us that keeping 30mph maintains casualties 33% higher than if they were changed to 20mph. It also keeps insurance premiums higher, suppresses active travel and wastes A&E resources. #20splenty
An insightful post and comments.
The evidence from the 2 years since Wales set a 20mph default for urban/village roads is clear:-
1,270 fewer casualties
134 fewer of them being fatal or serious
£45 pa lower insurance premiums than without 20
These are big wins for communities, NHS, emergency services and economy.
𝗪𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗪𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀
Its good to see roads in Bishop's Stortford being set to 20mph as Hertfordshire Council embraces wide-area 20mph limits to deliver better, safer, friendlier and healthier community streets.
Happy Valentine's Day to all the people who are making their communities better places for loved ones to walk, cycle, live, learn, work, shop and drive by setting 20mph limits.
