New study finds ‘no significant differences’ between routes with 20mph limits and those with 30mph or 40mph limits
in an effort to reduce casualties and pollution. Some individual councils in England and Scotland have already implemented them and the Welsh Government has committed to lowering speed limits to 20mph on all roads where cars mix with pedestrians and cyclists by September 2023. The Scottish Government also wants to have a 20mph limit on “all appropriate roads in built up areas” by 2025.
Previous studies on 20mph limits have suggested that reducing the limit helped reduce the number and severity of casualties. A 2018 report from Bristol showed that 20mph limits in the city reduced average speeds by 2.7mph and said that casualty figures fell during the period covered by the study.
More recent data from Edinburgh also showed that collisions fell by a third in the two years after speed limits were dropped from 30mph to 20mph in the city centre. And a 2018 report in the Journal of Transport & Health suggested that 20mph zones with traffic calming measures were effective in reducing collisions.
However, a Department for Transport study in 2018 said there “not enough evidence to conclude that that there has been a significant change in collisions and casualties following the introduction of 20mph limits in residential areas”, and suggested speeds had dropped by just 0.7mph in areas where the limit was cut from 30mph o 20mph.
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