Rejected petition To reserve and use the 20mph national speed limit on roads in vulnerable and high risk areas only.

Since the 20mph national speed limit change vulnerable and high risk areas no longer have immediate signage alerting drivers to slow down. It is now counter intuitive to the ethos of highlighting danger areas. The visual impact for drivers in these areas to slow down has now gone. Current evidence suggests that the average driver drives at 24 mph in 20mph areas. Using and highlighting the 20mph speed limit robustly in these high risk areas correctly will bring down speed, saving lives.

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue, or if the Petitions Committee has considered one in the last year.

The Petitions Committee has recently considered a petition on this issue:
We want the Welsh Government to rescind and remove the disastrous 20mph law

Details of the Committee’s previous consideration of this issue can be found here:
https://business.senedd.wales/ieIssueDetails.aspx?IId=43227&Opt=3

The petition will be debated in the Senedd on 22 May 2024.

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Date submitted 26 April 2024
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