Local authority receives 300 requests to scrap 20mph limit on some roads

300? How many drivers live in the catchment and how many of the 300 live there?

Bontddu: I see no reason for twenty mph, there is nothing there anymore...school's gone, post office gone, petrol station gone, Halfway pub gone, Bontddu Hall / Bryn Tirion (once the country retreat of the Mayor of Birmingham) gone in the worst way possible, the dairy long gone, Jack and his gold mine long gone. All the old characters gone but the village hall continues...so hardly 20mph...

See how you can challenge a TRO to change a 20mph speed limit to 30mph at www.20splenty.org/w_faq11

My road they took the signs down, even though still 20 at one end of the village and the other, so a 20 mph road. Everyone back to doing 40+ again and up to 70 first thing in the morning. RCT are gutless and only play to the bad driver. Drivers have created this need to lower speeds after all. Bad and dangerous drivign is rife.

It shows you how the population of Wales can be easily led by those with an agenda. The 20 mph default speed limit has reduced deaths on our roads, but hey let's ignore facts and replace with "fake news" because that fruit loop Andrew RT Davies told that you should be able travel faster in built-up areas so you can speed 9 mph more to the traffic lights and get first past that 78 year old Granny travelling in her disability scooter. Funny, if anything that slows you down vehicles on our roads are speed bumps or traffic calmers. Strange no online campaigns by the Welsh Conservatives or their English counterparts over hem , who might add, set up fake Facebook profiles to demonise and spread falsehoods about a policy that's proven to have saved lives. As said before, the flaw was its rollout, where and when the 20 mph limit were located. Welsh Labour made a rod for their back and the Welsh Tories who lets be honest don't want Wales to be a country let alone have the ability to legislate in their own Welsh Parliament would lambast anything Wales-only preferring the Senedd copy & paste whatever England does. It criticise for the sake of criticising.

Surely the obvious thing is to confine the 20 mph limit to roads where there's a lot of pedestrian footfall, but leave urban roads where there's very little of that at 30 mph. That seems to have been the criterion which our local authority has applied in our nearest town: one urban road which skirts the fringe of the town retains the 30 mph limit along most of its length, presumably because there's only open country with no building at all on one side, and on the other the housing's entirely confined to the small roads which lead off the principal road. The 20 mph limit is only applied at one end where the road runs into an estate of small businesses and industry where, inevitably, pedestrian footfall is greater. That strikes me as the sort of common sense application of the new limit which ought to be the norm.