Rochdale to adopt 20mph speed limit on all residential roads as councillors back call for safer streets
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manchestereveningnews.co.ukRochdale is to make 20mph the ‘default’ speed limit on all residential roads after councillors backed a call for safer streets.
A full council meeting has unanimously voted to adopt Resolution 11 of the UN’s Stockholm Declaration, which says a 20mph limit should be in place wherever ‘vulnerable road users and vehicles mix’.
It means the limit will be enforced on most of the borough’s streets ‘except where strong evidence exists that higher speeds are safe’. READ MORE : However, the ‘20s plenty’ rule is unlikely to apply to busy main roads, due to ‘the type and volume of traffic using them’.
The decision came after Labour tabled an amendment to a Liberal Democrat motion urging councillors to agree to lower speed limits across the borough.
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