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20's Plenty Campaign Rationale |
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Over half of road deaths and serious injuries occur in 30mph limits. A properly enforced 20mph speed limit on built up roads could reduce these casualties by over 50%, and reduce the national road toll by over a quarter. It would reduce the current very great injustice in access to our road network where pedestrians and cyclists — road users who pose no serious harm to others — are nearly 20 times more likely to be killed per mile travelled than car occupants.
A 20mph speed limit would reduce social exclusion. The disproportionate threat of death and injury for pedestrians and cyclists is compounded by poverty and age. Poorer neighbourhoods disproportionately bear the brunt of road danger. Child pedestrians from poorer households are five times more likely to become road casualties than their richer counterparts.
A 20mph speed limit would restore the balance between motor traffic and communities. It would reduce noise and severance. By encouraging walking and chatting, it would help to increase social interaction.
By enabling more walking and cycling, a 20mph speed limit would help to cut our greenhouse gas emissions, reduce fossil fuel dependence and buffer the country against the shocks of a rising and unstable oil price.
By enabling more walking and cycling, especially by children, a 20mph speed limit would do more than any other single measure to defuse the health time bomb of obesity, diabetes and coronary heart disease caused by sedentary lifestyles.
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