In case you have the sad situation of travelling through central london or even worse, living/working there, Mayor Khant has now added more of the congestion zone to the lowering of the speed limit to 20mph. All the signage is now in place, speed camera's have been adjusted and so from tomorrow, Monday 2nd of march, the 20mph congestion speed limit will have expanded this article might explain fuller https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money...stion-Charge-Zone-20mph-speed-limit-week.html
Let’s focus on the reality. TFL are responsible for five and a half miles of roads within the area. It’s only these five and a half miles that are affected.
It's the pretext of why it is being applied. Khant has said it is to reduce deaths particularly of those on bicycles and pedestrians. as to just 5.5 miles, within the article it had this TfL aims to introduce 'safer speed limits' across a further 87 miles of its road network, focusing on high-risk sections of road, town centres where people walk and cycle, and streets neighbouring ambitious local speed reduction programmes led by London boroughs. So it's quite clear this is not the end but just the beginning The reason for the thread is, if you use these roads and were unaware, then from tomorrow more speed cameras will be collecting through the lower speed limit, be careful
Sounds like it's all about forcing or rather pi55ing off the car drivers of the road completely. Just so that MP's don't get caught up in traffic jams. Something that the rest of the country have to put up with from time to time. They'll be bringing forward the Carbon Footprint reduction dates/ schemes again, similar to the Fossil Fuel deadlines.
Anyone who can get to 20 mph on those roads in busy times is doing well but there is lots 20 stuff down there with cameras that work
Until he gets booted out in the next mayoral elections and hopefully not many more roads will have been added by then.
UNless you drive between Midnight and 5am you've very little chance of hitting 8-12mph on those roads. And most of London is already 20mph in any event.
More shit. Meanwhile speed limit has just gone back up from 80 to 90kmh on country roads here. Thanks to common sense being re applied.
I wonder if he's reducing the speed limit to make it safer for car jackers to steal cars without getting hurt?
Good question. Another good question: will this be enforced on police cars, under all circumstances, including high-speed pursuits?
On a serious note I said to my kids in twenties that I’m glad I’m 57 as in 30 years time there will probably be no more enjoyment to be had driving. The thought of going out for a high speed blast will be criminalised. My kids will possibly never had the pleasure I had of driving on the TT mountain ( out of season) mad Pyrenees rides etc etc. Maybe we are heading for traffic like in that old black and white film masterpiece called “Metropolis “
I can remember when I could drive along the A12 to Romford, then via Chadwell Heath etc, into central London and out onto the M4.....a damn sight faster than can be done now. Even after the M25 was constructed, for a long time it was still the quickest way from East to West. And the driving was so much better....
The worst bit of 20mph in London is the stretch from Kew down to Richmond. It’s a wide, straight road of about a mile and a half and trying to stay at 20 takes almost all your effing concentration, which probably makes it more dangerous than driving at 30 with your attention focused on hazard awareness etc. I got caught by a camera on Xmas Eve (clearly a cynical trap, as it’s 50m from where the limit changes from 30 to national speed limit) and am awaiting the inevitable additional 3 or more points on my licence, making a total of at least 6. Thanks to the idiotic “Speed Kills” dogma, I’m a less safe driver than I was before as I now spend a lot more of my attention on looking out for signs and cameras, I find that driving no longer feels as natural and intuitive as it used to but feels more like it did when I was a newbie and had to consciously think about what I was doing. Outstanding work by the safety snowflakes! Meanwhile, of course, with hardly any traffic police out on the streets, I see probably dozens of people per day texting while driving, safe in the knowledge they’ll probably get away with it.
I didn’t know that stretch was 20mph, I don’t often go down there although it’s near me. Try the A316, still the 30 & 40mph limits, probably quicker now, worth the loop from the North Circ. I agree it IS really difficult to keep any vehicle at 20mph and to get 3 points at those kind of speeds is more than irritating. Old ladies with Zimmers can practically do that. As for texting while driving, that sends me nuts. Seems to me that more young girls think it’s ok to do it than any other demographic.
