April 1 exclusive
The controversial 20mph speed limit on the A5 (Queen Street, Regent Street and Berwyn Street) in Llangollen is reverting to ... 10mph.
When the 30mph restriction was slashed to 20 on many urban roads in Wales in September 2023 it sparked a storm of protest by motorists across the country.
This led to a record-breaking petition with a total of
469,571 signatures being handed into the Senedd headed by the demand: “We want the
As a result the
government agreed to a review which resulted in councils across Wales asking
the public which roads they would like to see going back to 30mph.
It is due to
this consultation that the length of the A5 running from just before Birch Hill
to just after the Wild Pheasant will see the limit change - not from 20 down to
30mph as in many other parts of the country but down yet again to a creeping 10mph from
noon today, Tuesday April 1.
The local resident
behind the reduction is Rob Philipson who said: “When the council asked for our
views on what the speed limit on Regent Street should be I immediately
responded saying that rather than taking it back up to 30mph they should in fact cut
it even further to just 10mph. I think many other people must have expressed the
same view because that’s now being implemented.
“After all it’s
an extremely busy and potentially dangerous road and since the 20 limit was
imposed in 2023 the traffic has slowed down considerably making it much safer pedestrians
and cats to get across.
“I for one am delighted to see it going right down to 10mph and I’m now campaigning for the council to take things even further and safer by having a man with a red flag walking in front of the vehicles travelling along the street.
“To enforce this we could have a convoy system where the flagman waits for say 10 or 12 vehicles to arrive before he leads them all along the street together. I think this makes good sense really and I’d like to hear what other local people think of it.”
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