Transport for London (TfL) has announced 65km of new 20mph speed limits to be introduced across eight London boroughs by the end of the year.
The new limits will be introduced in Greenwich, Kensington and Chelsea, Lewisham, Southwark, Wandsworth, Merton, Bromley and Lambeth over the last four months of the year, meaning that TfL will have delivered 140km of 20mph roads, ahead of its target of completion by May 2024.
TfL said the new limits will help make a large area of south London safer and more attractive for people to live and work in.
However, it has rowed back on claims that the introduction of new limits in central London led to a 25% fall in casualties, after Transport Network pointed out that it was comparing pandemic with pre-pandemic data.
It said today that data between May 2020 and June 2022 shows a 25% fall in collisions and a 24% fall in collisions resulting in someone being killed or seriously injured when compared to a similar period before lower limits were implemented.
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