King anticipates the day when 20mph limits rule Britain’s streets

Many of Britain’s towns and cities are implementing area-wide 20mph limits in an effort to cut road accidents and make streets more pleasant for walking and cycling. Rod King, campaign director of pressure group 20’s Plenty for Us, tells Andrew Forster about the new push to make 20mph the default speed limit on urban roads by 2020

02 April 2015

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20mph limits are a “catalyst for changing how we share the roads”, says King

King predicts all London boroughs will implement area-wide 20mph limits within the next five years

Brighton, Bristol, Cambridge, the City of London, Coventry, Edinburgh, Lancashire, Liverpool, Newcastle, Nottingham, Oxford, Portsmouth, Warrington, York... they are just some of the places listed on the back of Rod King’s business card – towns and cities where area-wide 20mph speed limits are being implemented. And the founder of pressure group 20’s Plenty for Us will soon need a bigger set of cards as the number of places adopting area-wide 20mph limits grows ever longer....