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POPSAn example of a civilizing trend in UK cities Well done Norwich councillors, standing up to the officers who often seem to be against these schemes. I believe that the vociferous motoring lobby gives them more hassle than they can cope with. This is a long term process to change the culture. There are very popular tv programmes which unfortunately encourage the treatment of the public highway as a sports arena.
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POPS20mph the default speed in towns? This will come and the sooner the better. Norwich wanted to introduce a townwide limit of 20 and the engineers said it would cost £10M to install! This is a total nonsense. With 20 the default speed there would be need for the few 30mph signs only
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POPS20mph blanket limit for Oxford Good news for the the city of dreaming spires but if it will cost £300,000 for Oxford how come it will cost Norwich ten million pounds to do the same thing?
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POPSCrash-proof car on the way If the driver fails to slow, the system brakes automatically and disables the accelerator. But Jonas Ekmark, of Volvo, said: "It is important to stress that CitySafety does notrelieve the driver of the responsibility from maintaining a safe distance." Safety experts say this and similar technology being developed by other makers will help save more than 125,000 painful and costly whiplash injuries alone each year. Rear-end collisions make up 29 per cent of all reported car accidents. In more than half, the driver does not brake at all. And 90 per cent of all such collisions are partly due to distracted drivers. Three-quarters of all collisions happen at speeds up to 19mph.
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