The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)
Call for more 20mph zones
DUNDEE CITY Council has been urged to create more Twenty’s Plenty speed limit zones after a new report showed road casualties could be cut by 40% in residential areas.
West End Councillor Fraser Macpherson said the evidence showing both support for and the benefits of 20mph speed limits and should be implemented by the city council.
According to a ComRes opinion poll, residents are overwhelmingly in favour of implementing the limits.
Mr Macpherson has called on the city council to take real action to explore the benefits in terms of pedestrian safety and implement Twenty’s Plenty zones in residential areas where there is support for this from residents, such as the advisory signs in Mallaig Avenue in Gowrie Park.
He said: “It is essential that each Dundee residential road is looked at, particularly on roads where there are a large number of children and where there could be a big benefit for road safety and improving the environment.
“An opportunity should be taken to allow residents to bring forward proposals to the city council.
“This is an issue I have recently raised with the council on numerous occasions, following discussions with residents, and I have spoken with the head of transportation about the matter.
“Although the city has 20mph speed limits outside schools when school children are coming to/going from school, there is a paucity of Twenty’s Plenty zones in residential areas in Dundee.”
Mr Macpherson has also been in discussion with Sustrans, the sustainable transport charity who have campaigned for safer residential streets.