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The Conservatives in Wales lose their last ditch attempt to stop the speed limit change from 30mph to 20mph. The change will be coming into force on the 17th September

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

One measure is very effective and cheap. Every city, town and village in Wales becomes safer very soon by just reducing the speed limit.

Your proposal takes years to implement and incurs a massive cost and inconvenience to shut down many roads for weeks at a time. Just to make sure you reap the entire benefit of the changed speed limit. The extra benefit has a disproportionate cost to the proposed solution.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

One measure is very effective and cheap.

It's certainly very cheap, but only very effective in certain places. It's questionable whether it would be cheaper to target those places exclusively.