Presentation from the European Mobility Week 2015 full-day training workshop held on 15 April 2015 at Camden Town Hall, organised by Act TravelWise with financial support from the Department for Transport.

1. How 20mph Improves Mobility
& Why Safety Matters for Smarter Travel

2. 20’s Plenty for Us
National voluntary organisation
supporting communities who want lower
speeds for residential streets. Free to join
Not speed bumps
20 mph default limits on streets– “Total 20”
Retrofitting communities for active travel
Exceptions determined by T.A.
Community led - Establishment endorsed
Aim to transform how urban and
village roads are shared!

3. 20’s Plenty for Us
 250+ local branches – www.20splentyforus.org.uk
 Ask 20mph volunteers to help you to organise/promote
& staff EU Mobility Week events
 You could offer them a budget
Eg Manchester’s £200 grants
To communities for 20mph events
 >14m people in towns
now have a “Total 20” policy
Including most of the biggest 40
Urban authorities
 TfL say place over rides movement
function for 8 Red Route high streets

4. 20mph Local Authorities in the UK
43% PH
50% PH1st phase
PH

5. London Boroughs and 20mph Speed Limits –
March 2015
Legend
Westminster
K&C
Richmond upon
Thames Wandsworth
Havering
Barnet
Enfield
Redbridge
Hillingdon
Sutton
Harrow
Ealing
Newham
Merton
Brent
Barking and
Dagenham
Kingston
upon
Thames Bromley
Bexley
Abbreviations
H&F – Hammersmith and
Fulham
K&C – Kensington and Chelsea
CoL – City of London
Hounslow
Haringey
Greenwich
Waltham
Forest
H&F
Croydon
Adopted/policy to adopt
20mph on residential roads
(and limited number of other
roads (eg town centres))
Consulting/moving towards
consultation on 20mph for
all residential roads and/or
other more major roads (but
not to a borough-wide
20mph policy)
Camden Islington
CoL
Adopted 20mph on all
borough roads
Southwark
Tower Hamlets
Lambeth
Hackney
Lewisham
Voted to adopt 20mph on
all borough roads

6. THE KEY POINT…
A city that permits 30 mph on
residential roads will never be child
friendly and will always deter
physical activity
Speed becomes greed
When it stops us and our
children from walking or
cycling on our roads through
fear of traffic
Imagine being 8 years or 80
and crossing our roads!

7. Crouch down: consider streets
from an 8 year old’s viewpoint
Or try walking slowly like a 80 year old!

8. ..key realisations in communities
Inappropriate vehicle speed violates our public
spaces creating fear, apprehension & conflict that far
exceeds any benefits.
Speed is the main factor in collision avoidance and
casualty severity
Its not that speed causes collisions so much as speed
doesn’t allow a collision to be avoided or the
consequences mitigated
20mph forms a key foundation for active travel and
makes a better place – safer, more active, quieter

9. Edinburgh’s 20mph Pilot results
 Support for 20mph rose - 68% before 79% after
 Those considering cycling to be unsafe fell from 26%
to 18%
 Children cycling to school rose from 4% to 12%. For
older primary age children it rose from 3% to 22%
 Children allowed to play out rose from 31% to 66%
 Walking trips +7%, cycling +5% car trips fell 3%.

10. Event Idea :
Braking Distance Challenge
Place bollards with letters on
at stopping distances
comparing 20mph and
30mph.
Ask parents to guess where a
child could be safe if a driver
sees a hazard 40 ft (12 m)
ahead when doing 30 mph
and starts braking
A 30mph car’s impact speed
is still 27 mph when a 20 mph
car would have stopped
http://www.20splentyforus.
org.uk/Briefings/braking_c
hallenge.pdf has handout

11. Braking Distance Challenge
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12. Thank you for your attention
It really is
We call for the National Speed Limit to
change to 20mph: Total 20 by 2020:
£3 per head cost of 20mph now with repeater signs
National 20mph is cheaper, more cost effective &
clearer. It sets a commitment to the safety of all
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www.20splentyforus.org.uk