Wales 20Mph Speed Limit

[evadora]

The above is coming into force this month in all built up areas (local newdpaper has printed that this is any area that has street lamps). I live in a rural area but there are street lamps on the roads leading to the village and beyond. Yesterday we drove to the village at the required 20mph and a jogger was running along side of us on the pavement!!!! Another looney idea from Mark Drakeford.

[Togo]

One of the comments by, a poster with the pseudonym, Captain2stroke begins "The First Minister of Wales was a social studies lecturer.
I cannot think of a more useless, incompetent, superfluous, inadequate, not-needed-on-voyage , hopeless and generally low-grade sort of person to run a whelk-stall, let alone a small country, than anyone involved in the social sciences." ... That is accurate!

[evadora]

Togo - I spluttered my tea reading that!!LOL

[douglas9401]

I'm sure I read somewhere that this is a baaaaad idea.

[evadora]

Patsy - Some people drive like idiots no matter what the speed limit - we had 30 mile ph and a few animals got killed. It seems the mind set of some drivers todayis that the law does not appy to them.

[evadora]

Douglas - Very funny - but around here there are moooore cows than sheep.

[Patsy33]

I completely agree with you, evadora.

[ichkeria]

They are a good idea in cerain areas.
Our road SHOULD be 20, not just when school is assembling and breaking up. It also has a contraflow for cyclists which is very dangerous.

As others have noted: 20mph is pretty impressive for a "jogger" (!)

[jourdain2]

We live in a small, quiet village in which speeding traffic has become more and more of a problem on the through road (only 5m wide in most places and the Combines are over that these days!). We have a village Speed Control group (official equipment etc..). On Saturday early evening they clocked 7 cars doing over 40 and 1 was recorded at 67 m.p.h.. Some idiots ignore any speed limits. The rest of us have to suffer the idiocy of 20 m.p.h. where 30 would be fine.

[Buenchico]

>>> " . . . but some people say they can't do 20mph in 4th gear".

I should hope not!

From the Institute of Advanced Motorists:
"Third gear is a very flexible gear in modern cars, including diesel cars, and it’s the ideal gear when you need to keep your speed to 30mph or under.

The IAM has a simple maxim. ‘Get the correct speed for the hazard – then get the correct gear for the speed’. At 30mph that gear should always be no higher than third!

In built up areas Advanced Drivers will often be in second gear at 30mph".

https://www.iam-bristol.org.uk/index.php/articles/associate-s-guide/27-gears-using-lower-gear-at-30mph

So, at just 20mph, a vehicle should either be in 2nd or 3rd gear and certainly not 4th!