Re: Drakeford expresses suprise at 20 limit reaction
Posted: March 15th, 2024, 6:52 pm
didds wrote:talking of student days... I used to drive from Norf Kent to Aberystwyth to and from university via the A44. I've just looked on "datamapwales" to pick out the 20 mph zones between Aber and Old Radnor on the English border along the A44. It seems once you've left the immediate environs of Aber, there are four such zones - at the junction of the A4159 (0.1mile), Ponterwyd (0.6 miles), on the edge of Rhayader (0.1 mile), and in the vicinity of the crossroads with the A483 at Y-Groes/Crossgates (0.6 miles)
Total 20mph zone 1.4 miles. At 30mph (assuming a constant 30 could be made of course) that would have taken 2.8 minutes. At 20mph (assuming a constant 20 could be made of course) that would have taken 4.2 minutes. A whole extra one minute twenty-four seconds on a 270 mile journey from Kent to Aber that used to take about 7 hours (just pre M25 days though there were sections open).
less than 90 seconds.
Of course others' student days may not have taken them along the A44, but far more convoluted journeys
Am I reading the datamap wrongly? I can only see, marked in red, zones where the 20mph zones have now been raised back up to 30.