{"id":8986,"date":"2019-09-12T16:39:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T16:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/?p=8986"},"modified":"2019-09-12T16:39:49","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T16:39:49","slug":"plans-for-central-london-20mph-speed-limit-given-green-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/plans-for-central-london-20mph-speed-limit-given-green-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Plans for central London 20mph speed limit given green light"},"content":{"rendered":"

Transport for London (TfL) has announced it will impose 20mph speed limits on roads it manages across central London in a bid to improve road safety.<\/p>\n

Following a positive response to a public consultation, the new speed limit will come into force on all of its roads in the Congestion Charge Zone by early 2020.<\/p>\n

The move is a key part of the Mayor\u2019s Vision Zero ambition to eliminate death and serious injury from London\u2019s transport network.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery single death on London’s streets is one too many so I’m really pleased that Londoners have backed our plans to introduce a 20mph speed limit on TfL roads within the Congestion Charge Zone and at Aldgate Gyratory,\u201d said Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London.<\/p>\n

The scheme will be supported by new 20mph signage and road markings, as well as raised pedestrian crossings in seven locations where a high number of people walk, including near Embankment and Tower Hill Tube stations and outside the Tate Britain.<\/p>\n

Following public support for the plans, TfL<\/a> is also accelerating proposals to bring safer speeds to some of the most high-risk areas in outer London where local communities are calling for safer speeds.<\/p>\n

Figures from 2016, 2017 and 2018 suggest 131 people were killed in speed-related collisions on London’s streets.\u00a0 A further 2,256 people were reported as seriously injured in collisions where speed was recorded as a contributory factor. TfL says cutting speeds from 30mph to 20mph will significantly reduce the likelihood and severity of collisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Transport for London (TfL) has announced it will impose 20mph speed limits on roads it manages across central London in a bid to improve road safety. Following a positive response to a public consultation, the new speed limit will come into force on all of its roads in the Congestion Charge Zone by early 2020. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":8987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}