Friday 7 October 2011

London: City streets to have 20 mph speed limit (30kph)

London’s streets shouldn’t just be corridors for traffic. Reducing motor traffic speeds on London’s streets where we live, work, play and shop is the single biggest change that will make them safe, vibrant and social places. On most of these streets the default speed limit is 30mph. As part of a wider package of work to help people leave the car behind, Sustrans is trying to make it easier for people to influence the speed limits in their area and push the default down to 20mph.

Read the whole story:
http://www.sustrans.org.uk/resources/in-the-news/a-city-of-20?dm_i=6EB,K6JT,N1CT3,1N23F,1