20's Plenty for Us ...making your place a better place to be

 

With Manchester, Birmingham and City of London joining many of the UK’s other iconic cities (e.g. Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Bristol, Lancaster, York, Brighton and many London Boroughs) there are now over 12m people living where a 20mph limit is agreed for most lit streets. With the DfT encouraging 20mph limits for residential streets it’s significant that repeater 20mph signs are a major cost of implementation.  Reluctance to buy unnecessary 20mph repeater signs is stalling some places from rolling out wide 20mph limits - a proven effective road safety policy. When most roads are set at 20mph, we say sign the few staying at 30mph! It would save millions of pounds, clutter and red-tape.

20’s Plenty for Us detects rising frustration in local authorities. Whilst central government asks for communities fit for 21^st century aspirations for safety and active travel by implementing 20mph limits, at the same time, it requires outdated signage rules. Modernising signage regulations to save money and be effective is crucial. Councillors know that residents want public money spent intelligently. See our Press Release here.

Hence our 5th annual conference at Camden Town Hall on Feb 18th 2014 focussed on our "Time for 20" call that recognises that we are in  transition from a 20^th century 30mph limit that in so many communities is blighting the public realm and creating obstacles to active travel and healthy lifestyles to a new era where local authorities look progressively at how they want to the streets as shared public assets for the benefit of the whole community.

With key speeches from major organisations involved in the debate, it  included case studies from local authorities already implementing wide-area 20mph limit across all their communities and workshops on best practice and issues for implementation.

Over 90 delegates attended the conference and represents the strong interest from local authorities and transport professionals.

The conference also included the announcement of the 20's Plenty for Us Campaigner of the Year. This was awarded to Sarah-Charlotte Peace for her campaign in Oswestry.

You can click on the links below to see the presentations of the speakers and watch the interview with Robert Goodwill.
 

A report on the conference from journalist John Morrison may be downloaded here.

For further details please email us at [email protected] or see our contact details here