
Call to cut city speed limit to 40km/h
New data showing nearly a fifth of the state’s collisions involving pedestrians occur in the Adelaide City Council area have prompted a call to reduce the city’s default speed limit to 40km/h.
New data showing nearly a fifth of the state’s collisions involving pedestrians occur in the Adelaide City Council area have prompted a call to reduce the city’s default speed limit to 40km/h.
It’s no wonder that public transport users are the bottom of the policy pile when the best-connected and most well-resourced transport lobby group in South Australia represents motorists.
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