20's Plenty For Us was formed in order to campaign for the implementation of 20 mph as the default speed limit on residential roads in the UK.

Research has shown that the vast majority of the public would like 20 mph on residential roads. 2006 changes in Dept for Transport guidelines have relaxed the recommendations and in many residential areas 20 mph limits may be set without any physical measures at all.

Portsmouth have taken the initiative and implemented a default 20 mph speed limit throughout their town in all except main arterial routes.

This site aims to provide the arguments for 20's Plenty in a coherent understood form with links to other material that shows how 20's Plenty saves lives and makes very little difference to actual journey times.

In December 2009 the dept for Transport issued revised guidance recommending 20 mph limits for all roads which are primarily residential in nature and into town and city streets where pedestrian and cyclist movements are high, such as around schools, shops, markets, playgrounds and other area which are not part of any major through route.

It advocates schemes such as Portsmouth where the whole town is set at 20 mph except for arterial roads.

New Dept for Transport Consultation Paper on 20 mph for residential streets.

This paper invites views from the public and road related organisations. Submission is required by 14th July 2009.

20's Plenty For Us leaflet

Open the new 4 page PDF leaflet on the 20's Plenty campaign. It is also available as a 2-sided A4 PDF version which can be printed and folded into a leaflet. The RTF version can be opened in most word processors and can used for you to copy selected text.

See a range of appropriate reports from SWOV (Netherlands Institute for Road Safety Research)  and TRL (transport Research laboratory)

See the new page for local 20's Plenty For Us campaigns.

See the report on the visit by London assembly to Portsmouth 18/11/08

See the latest Transport Committee Report on Road Safety which recommends wider use of 20 mph speed limits.

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Go straight to our campaign materials, posters, documents, etc.

Latest 20 mph News

You will be amazed at how 20 mph for residential streets is being evaluated in town halls across the country. Each day we see news reports of 20 mph being considered. Take a look at our previous new page to see the stories from around the country. 20 mph is coming, find out how it can come to your community.

20's Plenty For Us is a voluntary organisation. You can help us campaign by making a donation through the following link. No matter how small, or large your donation it will be a great help to the campaign. Many thanks.

Pedestrian and Total UK Road casualties Since 2000 - DfT

Year	Pedestrians	Total	%age
2000	857	3409	25.1%
2001	826	3450	23.9%
2002	775	3431	22.6%
2003	774	3508	22.1%
2004	671	3221	20.8%
2005	671	3201	21.0%
2006	675	3172	21.3%
2007	646	2946	21.9%
2008	572	2538	22.5%
Total	6467	28876

This graph shows how road deaths in the UK are becoming increasingly skewed towards pedestrians.

Portsmouth

Oxford

Norwich

Leicester

Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Islington

Hackney

Bristol*

Warrington*

TOTAL

*piloting

197,700

151,000

132,200

292,600

189,000

187,000

209,700

416,000

192,000

1,967,200

Transport professionals and stakeholders will be meeting at a seminar to discuss the recent change of guidelines on implementing speed limits. More details may be found here.

"It's the speed of the motor vehicles, stupid" - You can see this article here.

We have been asked to present to the Sheffield on the Move group in January on the benefits of 20's Plenty.

On 2nd November we will present to this group of MPs on the benefits of 20 mph residential speed limits for cycling.

This important conference will be held on 29th Sept and will present the outcome of Portsmouth's 20 mph schemes. More info at http://tinyurl.com/n2ho4p

Councillors in Preston have asked Lancaster County Council to review their policy and implement 20 mph speed limits across the whole town.

On October 21st, Rod King will be speaking at a public meeting to be held in Lancaster in support of 20 mph speed limits for the town.

On 10th September we were asked to meet a number of Colchester councillors, council officers, residents and campaigners to discuss how Colchester could adopt 20 mph speed limits for residential roads.

See press report at http://tinyurl.com/mbtpzm

We have been asked to present at the forthcoming European Transport Safety Council's "ShLOW" events in April and may. This initiative gathers together students from around Europe for two week long training courses on mobilising transport research into speed management. See www.ShLOW.eu

We have been invited to provide a stand at the Living Streets Supporter's  Conference in celebration of the 80 years since they were formed as the Pedestrian's Association in 1929. See :-

http://tinyurl.com/lssupporters

Islington is set to become the first London borough to implement an authority-wide 20 mph speed limit for residential roads. See:-

http://tinyurl.com/20splentyforislington