20's Plenty: The Move to Safer Speeds in the UK
Channel: Streetfilms®
Date: 2015-09-21

Five years ago, Streetfilms' was in Warrington to talk with the great folks behind 20's Plenty For Us, a largely volunteer group of organizers trying to get speeds of most streets in their United Kingdom boroughs reduced to 20mph. The first film was highly successful in helping spread the message and on a recent trip we caught up with them again.
Founder Rod King MBE reports some amazing statistics: currently over 14 million residents of the UK now live on streets of 20mph or less, including 3 million in London. Despite being a very small organization they have empowered an unbelievable 263 local campaings across the UK asking for 20 mph streets. It's amazing to see energized volunteers deploying all sorts of creativity to get the message out: stickers, banners, yarn-bombing, children's art and t-shirts. The success have been remarkable and in the film we get to briefly visit Central London, Liverpool and Cambridge.
In fact, building on those achievements the 20's Plenty For Us is now campaigning for "Total 20 By 2020" which aims to make most of the streets in the entire country 20mph, making it the norm rather than the exception. For those watching in the United States, this film is like a road map to how to get public support and your community energized around lower speed limits. New York City may have recently set it's city speed limits at 25 mph, but to keep driving down serious injuries and fatalities, we should be following the example set by the UK.