Roads could start going back up to 30mph by the end of the year, the Welsh government has announced, just months after lower speed limits were put in place.
Ken Skates, the Welsh transport minister, has announced that the government in Cardiff Bay will be revising its guidance to the council on which roads can be exempted from the new lower 20mph speed limit.But opponents have branded the move a"comms exercise" that will not see the 30mph default return.
Alongside this he promised to work jointly with local authorities to prepare the ground for changes, revising the guidance on which local roads can be exempted from the lower speed. "As I have already said there is growing consensus on safe speeds in communities that we can build from. We continue to believe 20mph is the right speed limit in places such as near schools, hospitals, nurseries, community centres, play areas and in built-up residential areas.
He said:"The Tories want something completely different, something that would cause chaos at an extraordinary cost."Then they would wish to use what are called Traffic Regulation Orders to change any 30mph routes back to 20.He accepted that Labour's plan would also comes at a cost, but argued that it would be lower than the Conservative's plan.
Reacting to the Mr Skates' announcement, Natasha Asghar MS, the Conservatives' shadow transport minister, said:"All of Labour's talk of change on their flawed 20mph speed limit was sadly just a comms exercise which has consequently made people from all corners of Wales believe that their roads will be going back to 30mph.
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