Anna Semlyen, Campaign Manager

How 20mph Improves Mobility& Why Safety Matters for

Smarter Travel

20’s Plenty For Uswww.20splentyforus.org.uk

@AnnaSemlyen1

20’s Plenty for UsNational voluntary organisation supporting communities who want lower speeds for residential streets. Free to join

Not speed bumps

20 mph default limits on streets– “Total 20”

Retrofitting communities for active travel

Exceptions determined by T.A.

Community led - Establishment endorsed

Aim to transform how urban and village roads are

shared!

20’s Plenty for Us250+ local branches – www.20splentyforus.org.ukAsk 20mph volunteers to help you to organise/promote

& staff EU Mobility Week events You could offer them a budgetEg Manchester’s £200 grantsTo communities for 20mph events

>14m people in townsnow have a “Total 20” policy Including most of the biggest 40 Urban authorities

TfL say place over rides movement function for 8 Red Route high streets

20mph Local Authorities in the UK

60%75%

InnerLondon

43% PH

50% PH1st

phase PH

London Boroughs and 20mph Speed Limits – March 2015

Legend

Westminster

K&C

Richmond upon Thames Wandsworth

Havering

Barnet

Enfield

Redbridge

Hillingdon

Sutton

Harrow

Ealing

Newham

Merton

BrentBarking and Dagenham

Kingston upon

Thames Bromley

Bexley

Abbreviations

H&F – Hammersmith and Fulham

K&C – Kensington and Chelsea

CoL – City of London

Hounslow

Haringey

Greenwich

Waltham Forest

H&F

Croydon

Adopted/policy to adopt 20mph on residential roads (and limited number of other roads (eg town centres))

Consulting/moving towards consultation on 20mph for all residential roads and/or other more major roads (but not to a borough-wide 20mph policy)

Camden Islington

CoL

Adopted 20mph on all borough roads

Southwark

Tower Hamlets

Lambeth

Hackney

Lewisham

Voted to adopt 20mph on all borough roads

THE KEY POINT…A city that permits 30 mph on residential roads will never be child friendly and will always deter physical activity

Speed becomes greedWhen it stops us and our children from walking or cycling on our roads through fear of trafficImagine being 8 years or 80 and crossing our roads!

Crouch down: consider streets from an 8 year old’s viewpoint

Or try walking slowly like a 80 year old!

..key realisations in communities

Inappropriate vehicle speed violates our public spaces creating fear, apprehension & conflict that far exceeds any benefits.

Speed is the main factor in collision avoidance and casualty severity

Its not that speed causes collisions so much as speed doesn’t allow a collision to be avoided or the consequences mitigated

20mph forms a key foundation for active travel and makes a better place – safer, more active, quieter

Edinburgh’s 20mph Pilot results

Support for 20mph rose - 68% before 79% afterThose considering cycling to be unsafe fell from

26% to 18%Children cycling to school rose from 4% to 12%. For

older primary age children it rose from 3% to 22%Children allowed to play out rose from 31% to 66%Walking trips +7%, cycling +5% car trips fell 3%.

Event Idea :Braking Distance Challenge

Place bollards with letters on at stopping distances comparing 20mph and 30mph.

Ask parents to guess where a child could be safe if a driver sees a hazard 40 ft (12 m) ahead when doing 30 mph and starts braking

A 30mph car’s impact speed is still 27 mph when a 20 mph car would have stopped

http://www.20splentyforus.org.uk/Briefings/braking_challenge.pdf has handout

Braking Distance Challenge

Thank you for your attention

It really is

We call for the National Speed Limit to change to 20mph: Total 20 by 2020:

£3 per head cost of 20mph now with repeater signsNational 20mph is cheaper, more cost effective &clearer. It sets a commitment to the safety of all

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