Went into town (Fishguard) tonight and got a taste of the new limit for built up areas. My villiage is 20mph all the way, but being a bit of a tight and compact island off the main road most people never drove at more than 17 or 18 anyway. In town there was one place that I thought could have held onto thirty for a bit longer, but in general it seems to have been implicated sensibly with thirty still being held on the more open stretches and the twenty being imposed where you would not do much more or anything at all above 20.
Be interesting to see how far other councils have gone (The locations being decided at local level) but so far not too bad. There are reports in the local online paper of a van going round nicking the new signs, twenty having disappeared so far and others have been vandalised. The protests will probably die when everyone gets used to it, like happened with speed cameras.
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