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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:
10 February 2010
Plenary, 10 Feb 2010
I would welcome an indication from the minister that we will make more than a nodding acquaintance with 20mph limits and streets that are safe for everyone to use.
Official Report
Meeting date:
26 January 2010
Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change Committee, 26 Jan 2010
Unquestionably, reduction of speed is probably the single biggest factor that encourages more people, particularly women, to cycle. A 20mph speed limit unquestionably creates more cycling.
Official Report
Meeting date:
1 June 2010
Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change Committee 01 June 2010
Lowering the speed limit from 30mph to 20mph is a simple way of retrofitting areas to free up space for cycling.
Official Report
Meeting date:
3 December 2014
Infrastructure and Capital Investment Committee 03 December 2014
There was a great deal of emphasis on 20mph zones, not all of which are in our gift—it is up to local authorities to implement those, although the Government has been asked to make it easier to achieve that.
Official Report
Meeting date:
17 September 2009
Plenary, 17 Sep 2009
I am a strong supporter of the last of those, because traffic calming also assists enforcement. Frankly, if we put up a 20mph sign, the speed merchants can ignore it.
Official Report
Meeting date:
25 September 2013
Rural Affairs, Climate Change and Environment Committee 25 September 2013
It has been doing similar work in its consultation on 20mph speed limits in Edinburgh.I have certainly seen a significant change in local authorities in the past 15 or 20 years as regards their awareness of the issues and their willingness to engage at scale with those issues.
Official Report
Meeting date:
9 May 2012
Infrastructure and Capital Investment Committee 09 May 2012
They want safety measures to be taken, but they also want to put out the message that cycling is safe, because the perception that it might be unsafe may hold us back from achieving our targets to increase cycling.Many of the points in the pedal on Parliament manifesto—for example, 20mph speed limits—rely on local government action.
Official Report
Meeting date:
17 September 2009
Plenary, 17 Sep 2009
I am a strong supporter of the last of those, because traffic calming also assists enforcement. Frankly, if we put up a 20mph sign, the speed merchants can ignore it.
Official Report
Meeting date:
2 October 2008
Plenary, 02 Oct 2008
Average speeds in some parts are as low as 20mph, and 30mph is the general average.
