“Twenty miles per hour speed limits are the simplest, quickest and cheapest way to reduce casualties' - Scottish Greens
The Scottish Greens have claimed lives will be saved by the planned rollout of 20mph zones across Scotland.Green MSP Mark Ruskell, who has been campaigning on the issue for years, said every council in Scotland was now finalising its plans.
In Wales, politicians have signed off a new national 20mph speed limit set to be introduced in September. “In the Bute House Agreement we pledged to make all appropriate roads in built up areas 20mph by 2025, and every Scottish council is now finalising plans to implement that.”“Twenty miles per hour speed limits are the simplest, quickest and cheapest way to reduce casualties and save lives.It comes after the Highlands became the first council to roll out the policy across its entire region, encompassing 130 towns and villages.
A 2018 study by the Glasgow Centre for Population Health study found road casualties could be reduced by over 10 per cent if speed limits in residential and urban areas were slashed from 30mph to 20mph.In London, 20mph zones have led to a 42 per cent reduction in casualties compared with other areas of the city.
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