The real reason for Wales’s 20mph speed limit
SUDDENLY out of nowhere the population and politicians of Wales are shocked that a 20mph speed limit has been imposed across much of the country.
In fact it has been in the making for many years, since at least 2010, when the UN’s little-known Economic Commission in Europe (UNECE) held a workshop to ‘raise awareness about the important challenges that climate change impacts and adaptation requirements present for international transport networks . . . The workshop highlighted that while transport is responsible for greenhouse gas emissions it is, at the same time, heavily affected by the impacts of climate change. This workshop demonstrated the urgent need to prepare appropriate policy actions.’
The piece is short and well worth reading because our political establishment has no intention of standing the the way of such measures. There are many roads round here where 30mph is much too fast, but to say that risks missing the political point.
As Mr Git neatly puts it, the source of the new limit is like one big Gordian Knot of intertwined policies.
Everything seems to be an integral part of the sustainable development and Great Reset agendas.
Surprised?
I’m not any more now I can see the Big Picture and where it leads.
It’s like one big Gordian Knot of intertwined policies that are designed to ensnare and enslave us while proclaiming it will enhance our physical and mental wellbeing, make us safer, happier, healthier and so on and on and on.
Everything seems to be an integral part of the sustainable development and Great Reset agendas.
Surprised?
I’m not any more now I can see the Big Picture and where it leads.
It’s like one big Gordian Knot of intertwined policies that are designed to ensnare and enslave us while proclaiming it will enhance our physical and mental wellbeing, make us safer, happier, healthier and so on and on and on.
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Jannie - ha ha very good.
In the early part of my career the industry I worked in started out as part of the Civil Service and there were formal regional instructions and national instructions to follow covering work procedures. Later the business was separated into a public company and then fully privatised. The complex network of instructions became dated by technical developments and the arrival of the Health and Safety at Work Act. The old instructions had to go and were replaced by a more coherent system, maintained on a modern system not requiring paper updates.
I suspect the activists have bored into the network of our laws to make them deliberately binding and difficult to change. Because this has been done opportunistically the laws and policies no longer mesh. The Great Reset proceeds quietly. Even the old EU laws are proving difficult to untangle (although I suspect this is due to ingrained resistance) and the tax laws are badly in need of simplification.
We need to recast our laws from the ground up. It's a huge task and many people dread making the effort... but how long can we keep going on as we are? Best start now.
20mph limits are slightly annoying when I drive and quite welcome when I cycle. Life's funny that way.
I foresee a range of new small cars designed for urban use, limited to a bit more than 20 mph, electric of course, monitored, and centrally controlled. Like golf carts or the old milk floats, but linked to computer systems. It would make sense to prohibit private ownership, and have the council rent them out like those e-scooters.
People won't object if that's all that's available.
DJ - I wonder if an AI system could reformulate laws and regulations to make them simpler and more consistent. Yet even if one could, defining the various projects and costing them plus the endless consultations along the way would probably drive it into the sand. Keeping the UN out of it would be a problem too.
Vatsmith - there is a long hill where we used to live where many cyclists going down the hill must be doing over 30mph. Some look as if they are doing about 40mph.
Sam - yes that sounds like an idea in many a council official's mind. Mixing with heavier traffic could be a problem.
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