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Questions and Answers
Date answered:
10 January 2017
S5W-05928
The Scottish Government funds a number of road safety initiatives for cyclists, including: Cycling Scotland's "Give Everyone Cycle Space" campaign, which is run annually and nationally both on TV and radio, which asks all drivers to be aware of cyclists on the roads at all times and to give cyclists as much space as you would another vehicle; adult cycle training sessions, which are available across the country from cycle retailers, and a downloadable APP from Cycling Scotland, which take you through various road safety exercises, including road positioning; the Big Bike Revival run by Cycling UK, which has held over 500 community-led sessions since September 2016 and will continue in 2017, together with free Dr Bike maintenance checks, cycle training and community led rides; Sustrans' Workplace Champions' programme, which is currently delivered in Edinburgh and Glasgow and engages with workplaces to deliver cycle training to those who wish to cycle to work; funding support to local authorities to deliver the three levels of the UK national standard Bikeability Scotland cycle training in schools; support for the implementation of 20mph...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
19 April 2013
S4W-13966
The introduction of 20mph speed limits and zones will generally be a matter for local authorities in their management of the local roads network.
Official Report
Meeting date:
24 November 2016
Public Petitions Committee 24 November 2016
Car parking in Glasgow, for example, is expensive and I think that Edinburgh has reduced its speed limit to 20mph in the city centre. Councils are taking different measures to address perhaps similar problems.
Committee reports
Date published:
28 February 2018
Air Quality in Scotland Inquiry - Monitoring air quality
The Minister for Transport and Islands, Humza Yousaf, added that Scottish Government guidelines on 20mph limits around schools helps to meet both road safety and air quality objectives.iEnvironment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
15 December 2011
S4W-04335
There are no towns or villages through which the Scottish trunk road network passes with a permanent 20mph zone in place. In September 2003, a ministerial announcement confirmed measures to assist roads authorities in implementing 20mph speed limits at schools.
Official Report
Meeting date:
8 February 2017
Rural Economy and Connectivity Committee 08 February 2017
Are you happy, John? I referred to the 20mph limit because it seems to me to be more of the same.
Official Report
Meeting date:
5 December 2017
Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee 05 December 2017
Dundee, for example, has only a couple of streets with 20mph zones, but virtually every residential area in Fife has been designated a 20mph zone.
Official Report
Meeting date:
6 June 2023
Meeting of the Parliament 06 June 2023
The Welsh Government passed an almost identical measure and, as a result, the majority of Welsh roads that are currently 30mph will have flipped to 20mph by September this year. In Scotland, all appropriate roads will be designated as 20mph by 2025.
Official Report
Meeting date:
13 June 2024
Meeting of the Parliament 13 June 2024
—for 20mph speed limits. Ms McNair, there was something wrong with your audio.
Last updated:
10 April 2024
PB_2021_Paper058
S6M-01281: Stephen Kerr: Road Safety in Falkirk - That the Parliament recognises efforts in Airth and Reddingmuirhead to introduce a 20mph speed limit; considers that, in busy areas, a 20mph speed limit is safer for pedestrians, in particular school children and cyclists, and notes the view that local councils should...
