There are a number of reasons for setting a default speed of 20mph throughout the 'unclassified' road network in residential parts of a city such as Norwich. Most important perhaps is that of driver recognition as to what the speed limit is. If you have 20 mph as the default then you not only establish this limit clearly, but you also adjust the driver's recognition as to what is the "normal" speed in such residential areas. The most important aspect is that drivers set 20 mph as the norm with those 30 mph areas or roads being seen as 50% faster, rather than seeing 30 mph as the norm with 20 mph as 33% slower. The psychological adjustment of normal speeds in residential areas is key to the success of reducing speeds and therefore danger to pedestrians and cyclists. Therefore any trial, pilot or whatever, that only implements 20 mph in a tiny proportion of the city is not modelling 20's Plenty in any realistic manner. When considering the val...
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Of course, there are some things we would cut. Subsidies for nuclear power, for example. And Trident. Shame that your lot are going to let those continue, Joe...
[If you do cut subsides for nuclear power, it will only be because you are privatising nuclear power more fully... Great!! PRIVATISED nuclear power! I'm feeling safer already... NOT]
Your numbers only add up if you manage to match the growth forecasts of the last government. Are you even trying to do that?
And in the longer run, any cuts made by other parties can be temporary because we will see the economy growing, and thereby generating the missing £160bn in tax revenue. And more. Are you planning to grow the economy that much?
By all means make the argument that economic growth is a bad thing, but you can't consistently do that and be on the side of public spending, compared to any other party, except in the very short term. And let's not be short-termist here.