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My mother lives in Swansea, Wales. Here is her take on 20mph.
– 20mph through villages, housing estates, schools etc is sensible.
– Swansea has lots of main roads, some dual carriageways. All are now 20mph. It’s very difficult to keep to 20 on these roads without looking consistently at your speedo.
– Plenty of aggression from frustrated drivers and overtaking in inappropriate places
– Some people are driving at 15mph.
– Lots of rat running down side streets.
– Very difficult to pull out of side roads when theres a constant stream of 20mph cars bumper to bumper.
Sounds like the expected shit show to me.
I think every villiage in Oxfordshire is already 20mph and it’s not caused an uproar because most accept that it is being used appropriately. But this blanket change from 30 to 20 in Wales is madness.
That doesn’t seem to match up with the data. From https://datamap.gov.wales/maps/roads-affected-by-changes-to-the-speed-limit-on-re/
When the Senedd voted in favour in July 2022, Wales became the first UK nation to pass legislation to lower the default national speed limit on residential roads and busy pedestrian streets from 30mph to 20mph. The new speed limit came into force on Sunday 17 September 2023.The new legislation is not a blanket speed limit on all roads, it simply changes the default speed limit on restricted roads from 30mph to 20mph. Highway authorities, who know their area best, engaged with their local communities to decide which roads should remain at 30mph.
Exceptions to 20mph default speed limits
This map shows:
a. roads remaining at 30mph speed limit (‘exceptions’)
Some highway authorities have also shown:
b. roads that are currently 30mph by Order and will stay at 30mph
c. roads that are 20mph by virtue of legislation (restricted roads)
d. roads that are 20mph by Order
Autonomous Audi crashes into
Autonomous Audi crashes into Bristol student accomodation https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/car-crashes-wall-student-accommodation-8818226
Does Trump even drive? I
Does Trump even drive? I suspect he doesn’t have the hand-eye coordination to do anything more complex than eating a burger and there was that awkward moment where he needed two hands to drink from a glass.
Which is the tail and which is the dog? (If only it was a dog with two tails…)Seems more like a dog chasing its own tail
Hirsute wrote:
Article on PCPs and their dangers. I was told I was being extreme when I mentioned this before.
The financialisation of car consumption
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13563467.2023.2254727
“Car manufacturers have promoted PCPs to solve long-running problems in their business model related to the need to maintain a certain level of ongoing new car consumption to conform with path-dependent patterns of production. In doing so, they have partly exported their own financial risk onto consumers, leveraging what is widely construed as consumers’ material dependency on their vehicles for transport to do so.”
Thanks – I found the Abstract interesting and I’ll have a read through it later.
On a less ranty note, I do love one of the comments below the piece: “” It became apparent he was under the influence of alcohol. Officers could smell alcohol on his breath and he had been using his indicators“…. School boy error that for any BMW driver. I am surprised he knew where they were…. it took me years to find them on my car!Well I never – I always thought they were merely decorative on BMWs and Audis
…and not just the oceans,
…and not just the oceans, but our rivers too
Also, linked to in that article is some analysis of how tyre pollution dwarfs exhaust pollution
The majority of drivers do
The majority of drivers do want to be safe and considerate, but too many of them don’t realise the problems with not leaving enough space around vulnerable traffic.
Thanks for adding those links. That’s some scary evidence that we’re indiscriminately poisoning the oceans.
Obviously bike tyres aren’t subject to the same kinds of forces, but I’m now starting to think whether we’ve got some of the same chemicals used in bicycle tyres and whether there’s “cleaner” manufacturers that we can purchase from to at least vote with our money. From the first link, Continental has experimented with some dandelion based tyres, but I don’t know if they for sale.
Fixthebloodysite AKA
Is it expertise or £££ needed?Usually both. You can just throw modern hardware at an issue and not need so much expertise, or you can hire an expert to identify the actual bottleneck, but that also costs £££
I think it’s time to call in
I think it’s time to call in some experts to sort out the issue. I’m assuming that it’s the backend that’s struggling and judging by the size of the site, it’d be cheap enough to run an in-memory database to handle it all.
Sorry, this is a CCIB matter. And I have reported you this time to Police Scotland.My legal counsel insisted that it was “wedged” or “stuck” and not crashed.
My legal counsel also insisted that Police Scotland can go huff a bag of squirrel scat.
It doesn’t take a NASA robot
It doesn’t take a NASA robot engineer to figure it out, does it?
The cost is pretty much
The cost is pretty much irrelevant compared to the estimated savings. Paying £33m once for saving £92m every year is beyond a good deal.
I can understand complaints about how it’s being done and obviously motorists generally aren’t going to like being made to slow down, but the cost if the exercise is hardly worth discussing if it brings about that level of saving.
There’s plenty of other places with 20mph limits and so far, they seem to work really well without evidence of the down-sides that opponents predicted. I hope it ends up working out well for Wales.
