{"id":355,"date":"2008-04-08T15:25:02","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T15:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/2008\/04\/08\/london-mayor-pl\/"},"modified":"2012-07-17T14:38:16","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T14:38:16","slug":"london-mayor-pl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/2008\/04\/08\/london-mayor-pl\/","title":{"rendered":"London Mayor plans 20mph speed limit if re-elected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/files\/2012\/07\/london_20_mph.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"http:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/files\/2012\/07\/london_20_mph.jpg\" alt=\"London_20_mph\" class=\"image-full\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;float: left\" \/><\/a> Ken Livingstone has announced he will try to reduce speed limits in London to just 20mph if he\u2019s re-elected to a third term office.<\/p>\n<p>London Mayor made a step further towards car annihilation in London by announcing he would lobby for a speed reduction to just 20mph in London if he\u2019s re-elected. He justified his decision by stating that 90% of of pedestrians die if hit at 40mph while just 2.5% die if hit at 20mph. Why doesn\u2019t he push the logic to reduce speed limit to less than 10 miles to ensure nobody will die because there is no much difference between 10 and 20mph.<\/p>\n<p>However by limiting the speed to 20mph, the mayor might also generate more pollution. Indeed cars\u2019 pollution is optimal between 40 and 70mph. At 20mph, cars would pollute more. Perhaps another excuse for Livinsgtone to increase the Congestion Charge?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Livingstone has announced he will try to reduce speed limits in London to just 20mph if he\u2019s re-elected to a third term office. London Mayor made a step further towards car annihilation in London by announcing he would lobby for a speed reduction to just 20mph in London if he\u2019s re-elected. He justified his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":351,"featured_media":6585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>London Mayor plans 20mph speed limit if re-elected - Petrol Head<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/2008\/04\/08\/london-mayor-pl\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"London Mayor plans 20mph speed limit if re-elected - Petrol Head\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Ken Livingstone has announced he will try to reduce speed limits in London to just 20mph if he\u2019s re-elected to a third term office. 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