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Official Report
Meeting date:
19 November 2019
Meeting of the Parliament 19 November 2019
The Government also encourages the introduction of 20mph speed limits in the right environment, because they have real potential to encourage more active travel and increase people’s perceptions of feeling safe.
Official Report
Meeting date:
17 March 2022
Meeting of the Parliament (Hybrid) 17 March 2022
In order to ensure that active travel networks are designed with safety in mind, they must be delivered in tandem with national ambitions for a 20 per cent reduction in car kilometres and 20mph by default. The time has come to finally take back our streets and transition away from a driver-heavy culture towards integrated, safe and inclusive local infrast...
Official Report
Meeting date:
7 November 2017
Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee 07 November 2017
That would be a big and very bold step and a statement about the priority of cycling in cities. I believe that 20mph zones help to reduce the fear factor of cycling and so on.
Official Report
Meeting date:
13 November 2024
Meeting of the Parliament 13 November 2024
I am also pleased that staggered speed limits have been introduced, for example when entering and leaving Stow. Extending the 20mph limit, before raising the limit to 40mph to a place called Galabank, and then to 60mph, has helped a great deal with safety on the roads.
Official Report
Meeting date:
6 November 2018
Meeting of the Parliament 06 November 2018
I have on my office wall a map that shows all the trunk roads in Scotland, and where the 20mph, 30mph and 40 mph limits are on the system.
Official Report
Meeting date:
17 January 2017
Meeting of the Parliament 17 January 2017
There is good evidence that 20 miles per hour speed limits can significantly reduce air pollution from diesel vehicles, so will the Government also consider a default 20mph speed limit for Scotland’s residential areas, which would be significantly cheaper for councils to roll out than the current piecemeal approach to 20mph zones?
Official Report
Meeting date:
3 December 2019
Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee 03 December 2019
It is a bit like reducing the speed limit to 20mph on rural roads. That is probably pointless because, if there is no one there to enforce that law, it will have no effect.
Official Report
Meeting date:
8 December 2009
Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change Committee, 08 Dec 2009
That would be helpful. The implementation of 20mph speed limits is still in its relative infancy.
Official Report
Meeting date:
10 June 2008
Public Petitions Committee, 10 Jun 2008
People often have to slow right down to 20mph while, behind them, people are powering down the dual carriageway at 70mph—well, let us just call it 70mph.The letter from Malcolm Reed says that it would be right to have a deceleration lane at that junction, but it also says that the junction ranks 13th out of 18 along the whole stretch of the A90.
Official Report
Meeting date:
30 April 2025
Meeting of the Parliament 30 April 2025
Motion, as amended, agreed to, That the Parliament believes that language used out of context to maximise political traction and which fails to consider the sensitivities of such language is reckless, given wider global considerations; further believes that demonising car users is unhelpful to rural communities in particular, which, as a result of a deregulated bus market, often have no alternative to using a car; acknowledges, however, that Scotland needs to reduce carbon emissions from transport, especially from car use; welcomes that Scotland has reached its target of 6,000 public EV charge points two years early through a combination of Scottish Government funding, delivery by local authorities and private sector investment, with approximately 24,000 to be delivered by 2030 through continued Scottish Government funding and increasing private sector investment; recognises that supporting EV car use contributes to Scotland’s connectivity, and further recognises the value that connectivity has in helping to support the economy, education, social mobility and leisure across Scotland; notes that connectivity is being enhanced by free bus travel for over two million people in Scotland, which provides alternatives to car usage for those that can make the switch; respects the responsibilities of local authorities for local road provision and maintenance, and some local bus services, and that they will be able to have more control through transport legislation, which puts more power into the hands of local transport authorities; is concerned at the ongoing impact of UK Conservative administrations’ deregulation of bus services in the 1980s and 1990s; recognises the need for safe, clean and, importantly, reliable punctual bus services, which can be improved through bus infrastructure, and that improvements can be made in public health by creating low emission zones, as has been done in over 40 areas across Europe, but does have concerns that the punctuality of bus services can be hampered by road works; welcomes the Scottish Government’s approach through engaging collaboratively with the Scottish Road Works Commissioner, who oversees road works, with roads authorities, which have responsibility for coordination of works, and with the road works industry, which is responsible for duration and quality of works, to find reasonable solutions to help in this area; agrees that further investigation is needed of the role that those undertaking the works play in the quality of road surfaces after works have been completed; further agrees to await the results of the National Speed Management Review consultation, noting that an estimated 10mph reduction in the national speed limit on single carriageway roads can reduce deaths by 23% and serious casualties by 18%, and that there is a need to make Scotland’s roads safer to cut the number of people being injured and killed on the roads, and welcomes the roll-out of 20mph...
