Mayor committed to 20mph limit for capital

30 January 2008

London mayor, Ken Livingstone’s transport adviser is confident that a default 20mph speed limit will be rolled out across residential London.

Jenny Jones said Livingstone had gone ‘further than ever before’ by proposing in next year’s budget to encourage the roll out of 20mph zones in all residential areas (Surveyor, 24 January 2008). Rolling out the measures would mean ‘motorists wouldn’t be able to say they were confused about the speed limit anymore’.

She said it would reduce street clutter, with less need for traffic calming measures. Southwark, Merton and Camden had already shown interest, she said. Under the deal, the mayor pledged that the intelligent speed adaptation pilot would go ahead this summer, with speed limiters installed in public service vehicles such as buses to reduce the speed of traffic. Jones said intelligent speed adaptation was ‘the way to get speeds down on TfL’s network’.

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