The page also claimed the default 20mph speed limit in Wales came at a “\u00a39bn cost to the Welsh economy”.<\/p>\n
The change to 20mph cost \u00a334m to implement and has seen a reduction in casualties<\/a> on Welsh roads, but has not been universally popular<\/a>.<\/p>\n The \u00a39bn figure appears to be an upper estimate of the policy’s cost to the economy over the course of 30 years, made in a 2022 Welsh government document.<\/p>\n It concluded the increase in journey times could create an economic “disbenefit” of \u00a36.4bn between 2023 and 2052 \u2013 with \u00a38.9bn being a worst-case scenario.<\/p>\n But it estimated, when potential economic savings from improved road safety were also taken into account, the policy would cost \u00a34.54bn over 30 years to the Welsh economy.<\/p>\n Savings on police, ambulance and medical costs, the report said, will outweigh the direct cost of implementing the policy (the \u00a334m spent in 2023).<\/p>\n The truth is, we do not know exactly what the longer-term costs or benefits will be, but it is inaccurate to say outright that the policy has cost, or is projected to cost, \u00a39bn.<\/p>\n Doge Wales has been approached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The page also claimed the default 20mph speed limit in Wales came at a “\u00a39bn cost to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-540433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}