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20mph saves lives

2025-03-24 00:42:24.104177+01 by Dan Lyke 2 comments

Kept so that I can post this as the proponents of traffic violence rail against lower speed limits in Petaluma: Wales’s 20mph speed limit has cut road deaths. Why is there still even a debate?

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#Comment Re: 20mph saves lives made: 2025-03-24 15:46:34.373025+01 by: Dan Lyke

Yeah, but it only takes a few socially conscious Prius drivers to make *some* difference.

#Comment Re: 20mph saves lives made: 2025-03-24 02:12:55.484166+01 by: Mars Saxman

What surprises me is that people in Wales apparently care enough about the numbers on the speed limit signs to change their behavior in response. Where I live, the authorities tried to institute a 20 MPH speed limit several years ago, but one only remembers that this ever happened when stuck behind some unusually-conscientious Prius driver.

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