All Isle of Wight towns could be 20mph after landmark vote

This Councillor Jones-Evans has got it. "Lift the well-being of the community." It's not primarily about safety or air pollution or health, important though those things are; it's about making places where people live, liveable for people.

Great idea on the health front. Bearing in mind 10% of the NHS budget is spent of diabetes and is projected to increase to 17%! It costs £1.5 million per hour to treat everyone who has it! If increasing walking and cycling helps beat that, it will be well worth it.

Yes, I know that the slower a car goes the less damage it will do but there comes a point at which we need to be directing blame back onto pedestrians sometimes. 

If you get knocked over whilst in the road and not at a crossing, then unless the vehicle was driven by a madman who wasn't going to stop anyway, I think the pedestrian is also to blame. 

I often slow to less than 30 depending on who is actually about, like yesterday, a child was wobbling about on the pavement on a bike, so I slowed down at the ready. If that road was empty then I'd have done 30. 

Old dodgers are the worst pedestrians IMO. My Granddad used to be a copper and thought he could amble into the road and put his hand up and I remember some silly sod doing the same to me on my motorbike at a pelican crossing. I locked the front wheel up and nearly went down as he stood in the middle of the road shaking his head at me on my green light. Thanks Granddad. 

Then again I've also noticed that pedestrians don't give two hoots about walking in front of bikes and always expect you to compromise yourself. No sorry, no remorse, usually just a death stare that they wouldn't try if you were a car. 

Plenty of 20MPH zones where I live in South London. The speed limit is completely ignored by drivers and is never enforced. The only people I see beneifiting from these zones are the companies who make road signs and the white paint.

You'd think that car manufacturers would jump on the bandwagon and start making cars optimised for twenty mph  (since one of the big complaints I hear is that cars are optimised for higher speeds and so work badly/inefficiently at lower speeds).