Reducing Carbon Emissions

Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Climate Change – in the Senedd at 1:34 pm on 21 September 2022.

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Photo of Lee Waters Lee Waters Labour 1:34, 21 September 2022

Well, of course, we are taking action to reduce speed limits. All speeds on local roads will have a default speed limit of 20 mph from next September, with the ability for local authorities to provide for exceptions to keep it at 30 mph. And that, no doubt, will have a knock-on effect about people's sense of speed on other roads. So, we'll also be looking at our setting local speed limits policy. Also, we've announced in a written statement a short while ago that we've now received the full report of the roads review panel, which we'll be going through over the next couple of months, with officials looking in detail at each of the many recommendations they've made, and speed limits is very much central to their analysis of what we need to do, both to achieve our carbon emissions but also to save lives. 

Clearly, local roads are the responsibility of local authorities. Trunk roads are the responsibility of the Welsh Government. And I recognise there are examples where a community feels the road speeds are too fast, and that is something we're going to look at as part of our overall package of modal shift.