{"id":29674,"date":"2022-09-26T23:17:01","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T22:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=29674"},"modified":"2022-09-26T23:17:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T22:17:01","slug":"20-mph-the-new-30-mph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=29674","title":{"rendered":"20 mph the new 30 mph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022092601.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAbingdon Town Council has applied for 20 MPH limits in the residential areas of the town and a reduction of the &#8216;ring road&#8217; to 30 MPH. Oxfordshire County Council is now consulting on the new limits between 31st August and 30th September at <a href=\"https:\/\/letstalk.oxfordshire.gov.uk\/abingdon_2030mph2022\">https:\/\/letstalk.oxfordshire.gov.uk\/abingdon_2030mph2022.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many other areas in the county, the country, and the world are going through the same process to reduce severe road casualties and encourage cyclists and pedestrians by making it feel safer.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022092602.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe 30 MPH limit was introduced in urban areas in March 1935, as reported above in the Birmingham Gazette of 19th March 1935. Thanks to the British Newspaper Archive for the copy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abingdon Town Council has applied for 20 MPH limits in the residential areas of the town and a reduction of the &#8216;ring road&#8217; to 30 MPH. Oxfordshire County Council is now consulting on the new limits between 31st August and 30th September at https:\/\/letstalk.oxfordshire.gov.uk\/abingdon_2030mph2022. Many other areas in the county, the country, and the world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}