Has the 20mph change helped tackle speeding?

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With speeding on the rise across the rest of the UK, we’re asking people in Cardiff whether they think the Welsh Government’s controversial 20mph limit change has helped tackle speeding.

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00:00Those which are perhaps linking to areas, industrial areas, roads which kind of run

00:07adjacent to some more residential areas but there's not direct sort of

00:12pedestrian access. Also I think the roads need to be marked clearly if that's the case.

00:17I know that it saves lives if you get hit at 20 instead of 30 but

00:22pragmatically are people really, if you're going to break a 30 mile

00:27an hour speed limit you're going to break a 20 mile an hour speed limit and that's

00:31just the way people go.

00:32No, 20 miles an hour is alright.

00:34Yeah, saves lives. No need to go any faster.

00:39Yeah definitely because if I'm going 30 and it immediately drops to 20 and then back up to 30

00:44not everyone's going to see that and you're constantly looking out for signage

00:47as opposed to concentrating on the road and what's in front of you. You're

00:49worrying about what speed you're going. You actually want to just look at the road and see

00:53what's in front of you, especially run by schools. If someone's kid's going to nip out, you want to

00:56make sure, you know, I'm not staring at signs, make sure I'm going the right speed.

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