![]() It is essential for the safety of our children, young people, elderly residents, cyclists, horses and other road users.Įvery speeding motorist rushing to and through Whitby and District becomes a pedestrian once they park and get out of the vehicle. Parish Clerk – Sicklinghall Parish Council We have no need of 20mph as layout of road and narrowness means 30mph is not achievable so 30mph is fine for the Parish. Representative of a group – Muker Parish Councill With all the proven benefits to driving 20mph rather than 30mph it is hard to understand why people oppose it. Local school and speed of traffic is far too dangerous You’re welcome to come to Whitby Community Network meeting and discuss People have a right to feel safe when walking, as well as the need to have more walking for health reasons … which is not possible without this measure. Your climate strategy will require significant expansion in active travel, and you simply will not get there without providing 20mph in urban residential areas since your provision of active travel infra is simply not happening, nor will it ever get to urban residential. Representative of a group – Whitby Community Network Its your duty to prevent casualties and improve the County’s safety, health, the climate and raise business viabilityĢ0mph is calmer, quieter, safer, more pleasant than 30mph We need to protect our children and our elderly residents and prioritise people.Ģ0’s Plenty for North Yorkshire has a democratic mandate for change to the best practice policy of wide area 20mph. The villages which I represent are utterly unsuitable for traffic moving faster than 20mph once off the through roads. ![]() Outside Killingahll CE Primary school it is vital for a 20mins limit. ![]() The cost in terms of injuries suffered as a direct result of the permitted speed being too high is morally indefensible. Safety of our children and elderly people is being put at risk by the continued failure of the county council to introduce a 20mph limit in our towns and villages. This is consistent with UK Government surveys, which have also shown that approval of default 20mph increases after implementation. That is 71.5% in favour of default 20mph, 26.8% against, and 1.7% undecided. To summarise, of the 239 replies there are 171 votes in favour of our proposal, 64 votes against, and 4 don’t know. The only data that is redacted are emails / names. Since 20s Plenty for North Yorkshire believe in openness and transparency we present the results of our survey here, in full. As it is, they are still in limbo with inadequate road safety, wellbeing and quality of life. If we had the “democracy” that Cllr Keane Duncan purported to in his statement following the NYC Speed Review announcement those areas that have passed motions would now be looking forward to the implementation of 20mph in their areas. 151 Parishes in North Yorkshire and the Harrogate and Selby Area Committees for North Yorkshire Council (totalling the majority – 54% of residents represented) have passed supporting motions for 20mph as default: see the list of parishes. 20’s Plenty had requested a draft of the NYC speed review on 18th May 2023, but sadly Cllr Keane Duncan refused this on 23rd May 2023, writing to say the NYC review is compliant with DfT speed limit circular written in 2012, which is out of date by a decade and doesn’t factor in Welsh and Scottish policy for National default 20mph.Ī reminder that 28 million people in the UK already enjoy a default 20mph limit signed policy. The NYC Speed Review was finally presented to the NYC Executive on Tuesday 4th July. ![]() See also the list of explicit consultees for this survey. We undertook the speed review survey from 24th May through to July 7th 2023, where consultees were encouraged to express their views via a simple Google docs survey, and to inform their North Yorkshire Councillor ( see this page for email details) and Cllr Keane Duncan (who sets transport policy) of their views as soon as possible. Our proactive response to the delay by NYC was to prepare a 20’s Plenty for North Yorkshire Speed Review informed by expert evidence on current best practice, plus we invited consultation comments. The NYC Speed Review, was promised since November 2022, and was beset by delays. The Highways Authority with speed limit powers is North Yorkshire Council (NYC). 20’s Plenty for North Yorkshire is run by volunteer residents, led by Ian Conlan 20’s Plenty for North Yorkshire is a county branch of 20’s Plenty for Us, the National Campaign for default 20mph limits where people live, work, shop, learn and play.
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