Alaric wrote:I recently had the misfortune to drive through Bath and other places in the same Council area. If there's a trunk route, what really is the justification for imposing 20mph limits? These aren't city centres, just roads passing through areas deemed residential.
In its defence, Bath does have some diabolically overworked roads near the centre. Because it's situated between seven steep hills, like Rome, its planners haven't had the usual option of building a bypass around the city. And the urban air quality on the east side is some of the worst in Britain. They're very twitchy about these things, you know.
Further out of town, there are two universities, 100-odd schools and four hospitals, all connected by urban rat-runs that carry far more traffic than they were ever designed for back in the 18th century. Reason enough for the occasional 20 limit section, I'd say. Yeah, I dislike driving in the city too, and I'm local, so I know all the short cuts! A proper mess of a system, with a convoluted one way system to make it all the more confusing.
But Wales? Apart from those parts of central Cardiff where the satnav can't get a signal
, I can't think of many places where a 20 limit is going to achieve much more than p1ssing people off and slowing down their journeys. Unless it's to pick up some greenie cred points for Mr Drakeford, of course?
BJ