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Walking and cycling commissioner Will Norman on 20mph roads in London
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5/22/2025
Walking and cycling commissioner Will Norman on 20mph roads in London
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So this research is the most comprehensive analysis to date of the impact of 20 miles
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an hour on London roads. It takes over 150 schemes across the capital on borough roads
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that have been delivered and takes looks at the data three years before and three years after
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of the impact of those those that change in speed limits to 20 miles an hour and what it shows it
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conclusively proves those results conclusively proves that 20 miles an hour is saving lives in
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London. We've seen a 40% fall in the number of people being killed on on these roads compared
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with 7% on the rest of the roads. For kids it's even more there's 75% fall in the number of kids
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being killed on the roads and a 50% fall in the number of children being seriously injured. Now
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that is significant it proves the case that the lower speed limits are saving lives for Londoners.
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Will this now lead you on to putting 20 mile per hour speed limits on more roads in London?
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Absolutely we've been investing in making more speed uh smaller more roads safer for people
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in a whole range of ways including putting in safer speed limits. We've been doing that in
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conjunction with the boroughs. Now there are 21 boroughs out of the 33 that have a default of 20
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miles an hour. That's not a blanket 20 miles an hour that's a default so you ask the question
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this road should be 20 miles an hour unless it's 30. We will continue and we've just announced the lift
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investment of 87 million pounds which includes more 20 mile an hour zones and TfL are continuing
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its programme of investing in safer speeds on the main roads and that research also shows that lives
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are being saved with those changes too. Are there any particular roads or locations you can tell us
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about today where 20 mile per hour zones are coming in? At the moment what we need to do with all of these
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schemes is go through due process in terms of consultation and that analysis. So what will happen is the boroughs and TfL will be
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consulting with local communities from this summer onwards looking at those changes on the roads.
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How are you going to enforce the 20 mile per hour speed limits? So we work very closely with the
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Metropolitan Police to ensure that people actually adhere to the speed limits. That is through both
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cameras and mobile operations on the street. We've increased the capacity for the Met to actually deliver
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and issue more speeding tickets. That is not a cash cow for TfL. None of that money comes to London,
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it all goes to government and in an ideal world I wouldn't want a single speeding ticket to be
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issued in London. What I would want is people to be driving at the right speed so that there is much
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less risk for people who are walking, cycling and driving around the city. Despite the spread of these
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zones are you nevertheless concerned about the amount of speeding that happens in London?
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Certainly speeding continues to be a problem on London streets. About 50% of the fatalities on
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London roads are related to speeding so it's absolutely essential. We set lower speed limits,
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we continue to enforce but we also embrace new technologies such as the automatic speed limiters
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on buses and new vehicles which are helping calm down our streets making it safer for everybody.
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