While I agree that a 20mph speed limit is good for roads near schools etc, I just do not comprehend the overall reasoning.

Supposedly, it will save the NHS £92 million in less accident care. 

I think we have all been duped - how many of us whilst out and about have seen all these accidents where people in the towns and villages have been knocked down by vehicles?

I, for one, who have been driving for 50 years have only ever seen one person knocked down by a car. That is one too many of course. When I ask others, I find similar.

Yet the Government persisted and implemented this. I’d like them to make public, the formula and details of the £ 92 million saving.

OTHER NEWS:

Meanwhile, driving through these 20mph zones, means driving in a lower gear with the engine at higher revolutions and higher emissions meaning more pollution as well as more time. 

Those driving to deliver goods will find it more costly as it affects the number of deliveries negatively. This in turn decreases productivity.

And all this is on top of the road narrowing schemes recently implemented under the excuse of ‘active travel’’ to force people on to cycles providing cycle lanes which seem largely hardly utilised.

County Times:

The narrow sections of main roads have been made dangerous for trucking such as the main road through Llandrindod Wells where lorries can no longer pass each other.

I have yet to see a cyclist on the widened footpath. So much money appears to have been wasted.

Perhaps at the end of the day with the supposed NHS saving, the long term objective is to reduce NHS and other services again by closing a few hospitals and ambulance stations having saved on the resource.


Graham Norris
Llandrindod Wells