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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
The co parison is between 30 and 20mph. And yes, it is more difficult to cross a road even when cars are travelling slowly where they are bunched up.
As for your last 'point', I don't know how you make out it's a straw man argument. It's a balance of risk.My argument is that it's obvious that the more you reduce speed, the more accidents are prevented and lives saved, but everything we do has a measure of risk. You cannot eliminate it. 20mph on all residential roads is potty, and I think most people know that.
This issue will be Labour's Archilles heal at the next election. And they were doing so well...
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the word you are looking for is hope.
We will see. It's a last roll of the dice for a Government devoid of ideas.
Thus far all I can see is that the Venn diagram of GB News viewers and people "genuinely interested in the subject" that funnily enough they never raised before 2023 is broadly a circle. That's maybe a fraction of one per cent of the electorate.
A genuinely 'pro-driver' Government would reduce fuel duties and stop using drivers as a cash cow. 30mph vs 20mph in built up areas is neither here nor there. Even the Tories don't think it's a good idea, but like the Liberal Democrats they can say anything now knowing they'll never have to actually do it.