I write in connection with the imposition of the 20mph speed limit in built up areas.
We have seen for more than two decades councils, with the blessing of the Welsh Government, install speed humps, flashing signs, red squares of tarmac, shell grip and the like in every town and village in the land, the cost of which probably amounts to several skip loads of cash to the taxpayer.
Councils and Welsh Government have known about accidents and injury caused by motor vehicles for donkeys’ years.
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So I ask the questions, why, having information about accidents and injuries for so long, have they waited til now to impose a 20mph limit.
Why didn’t they do it 20 years ago rather than wait til now, perhaps saving lives and injury, and perhaps saving the taxpayer huge amounts of money on all the other speed calming measures they have installed across the last 20 years?
Alun Williams,
Machynlleth
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