20s plenty for Sheffield members will be attending the next Sheffield on the Move forum on Thursday 22nd July.
We will report developments on the Councils implementation of 20mph as a default limit in residential areas and the city centre, and our response.
http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/roads-and-transport/policies-plans-performances/sheffield-on-the-move
Scroll down the linked page to the list of attached files on the agenda page for the July 8th Highways Committee.
The report sets out a response to two petitions requesting area wide 20 mph speed limits in the City Centre and all residential areas.
reported in the local press, July 1st
http://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/news/More-20mph-zones–but.6394292.jp
Debate on 20 mph speed limits as the default for residential roads on BBC Breakfast at 6:40 and 7:40 in the morning.
Interviews will include Dr Nick Foreman who recently wrote an article for the British Medical Journal on his personal experiences of a 20mph collision and the Association of British Drivers.
The next Central Community Assembly Business Meeting takes place on: Thursday 24th June, 6pm – 8pm at the Quaker Meeting House, St James Street, S1 2EW.
These are decision-making meetings held in public for the 12 Councillors who make up the Community Assembly. Agenda items this time includes highways schemes – decisions on small and larger schemes.
It seems that the South Sheffield Community Assembly has already decided what it is going to do about road safety before its meeting on Thursday. Instead of implementing a default 20mph speed limit on residential streets across the area, which would make the area much safer for everyone, it is going to spend £300.000 on a few isloated schemes. Is this democracy in action?
The next meeting of the South community Assembly , which covers the four wards of Gleadless Valley, Graves Park, Beauchief and Greenhill and Nether Edge, is on Thursday 10 June 2010 – 6.30pm at Common Ground, St Peter’s Church, Empire Road, Sheffield, Nether Edge.
20s plenty, national news.
At the National Transport Awards in Manchester, Portsmouth City Council was the winner in the road safety, traffic management and enforcement category.
In 2008 Portsmouth became the first city in Britain to have a 20mph safety limit on almost all residential streets. The council scheme, funded by the government, has brought the city national attention and interest from many other councils.
for more on this story
http://www.portsmouthnews.tv/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1774:20mph-speed-limit-on-residential-streets-wins-national-award&catid=34:front-page-news
The Mirror urges parents to give kids more freedom by lobbying for 20mph limits on residential streets.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/07/20/how-not-to-bea-paranoid-parent-115875-22425891/