20mph restrictions in Worthing "could save £2 million a year" (From The Argus)
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20mph restrictions in Worthing "could save £2 million a year"
8:04am Monday 15th August 2011 in News
Speeding campaigners claim a 20mph limit could save a town £2 million a year.
Members of the 20’s Plenty for Worthing campaign say the move would lead to an immediate reduction in the number of deaths and injuries on the roads.
The figures currently show an average of two people are killed and 267 injured on Worthing’s roads every year.
They say if the reduction in casualties matched the level seen in Portsmouth since the introduction of a 20mph limit there the savings in terms of public spending would be £2 million.
From today residents will start receiving surveys on whether they would welcome a 20mph limit in Worthing.
Campaigners say reducing the limit would cost about £245,000 and could be paid for from the money paid by property developers as part of planning agreements.
In the past five years, more than two-thirds of those killed or seriously injured on Worthing’s roads were pedestrians and cyclists and 83% of those have been on roads with 30mph limits.
Comments(11)
BSmytherman
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9:25am Mon 15 Aug 11
It will come from s.106 Developer contributions
pfriis
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9:35am Mon 15 Aug 11
And £245k sounds to me like a very low guess at what it will cost.
Thelnsider
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9:44am Mon 15 Aug 11
pfriis wrote:Exactly, what a waste of money and resources. Worthing Pride I vote for!
Wherever it comes from, if we don't spend it on this then we've got £245,000 more to spend on something else.
And £245k sounds to me like a very low guess at what it will cost.
rolivan
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9:53am Mon 15 Aug 11
Tailgaters Anonymous
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12:09pm Mon 15 Aug 11
And on the key point Lewes over the years regretted including cobbled humps and 20 mph for trafffic calming as the measures actually increase pollution.
Morpheus
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4:28pm Mon 15 Aug 11
enigmatix
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5:39pm Mon 15 Aug 11
Thelnsider
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8:04pm Mon 15 Aug 11
Morpheus wrote:83% of accidents are indeed on roads with a 30 mph speed limit, 61% more of people struck by vehicles at 30 mph die or are seriously injured, 37% of Cyclists would use the road only if the pavement was full, 34% of crimes in Sussex are actually solved and 96% of all statistics are made up. I am 100% correct in this, and indeed, everything I say.
If 83% of accidents are on roads with a 30 MPH limit, perhaps the answer is to increase the speed limit since there are obviously fewer accidents on those roads. The real issue is of course that accidents happen where there are more people and the speed limit has little to do with it.
bill porter
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8:07pm Mon 15 Aug 11
BSmytherman (Bob the ex-burger flipper and disgraced ex-libdem leader) should try asking the working residents of the town what they want rather than take a straw poll of party supporters who are all so old most have lost their licence anyway.
20splenty
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5:22pm Thu 18 Aug 11
forus.org.uk/polluti
on.htm
The majority of residents and indeed UK citizens think 20mph is the right speed limit on residential roads. 70-80% support every year from 2000-2009 in the British Social Attitudes Survey.
For more info see http://www.20splenty
forworthing.org.uk/
Abraham Gray says...
8:08am Mon 15 Aug 11