Author: Professor Charles Musselwhite, THINK Academy
Date of Publication: June 2022
Uploaded to Knowledge Centre: 23 August 2022
This paper looks at what needs to be done to reduce speeding behaviour, suggesting that the lack of connection between attitude and behaviour suggests changing attitudes alone will have limited consequences.
The author suggests there are two broad options as follows:
• Bring the public along with the decision making, explain the link between attitudes and behaviour, the disconnect between yourself and others, between driver and resident, allay fears about increase to journey times and increases in pollution and gradually introduce 20mph speed limits, possibly using demonstrators to show 20mph areas working well.
• Or introduce 20mph speed limits anyway and build support afterwards.
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https://think.aber.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2022/06/Attitudes-to-20mph-4.pdf