Confident about the need to change
Speech to the Senedd on 27th September 2023 responding to a motion of No Confidence I recognise the strength of feeling there is against the change to the speed limit. The number of people who have signed the Senedd petition speaks for itself, and we certainly take it seriously. I understand that lots of people are angry and frustrated. My message to the more than 400,000 who have signed the petition is simple: We are listening to what you're saying, we understand not everybody likes this, and we are willing to be flexible on how this is implemented in your local community. Llywydd, this is the biggest change in the rules of the road since wearing seatbelts became compulsory in 1983. That too was highly controversial and strongly resisted. Many people found it hard to adjust but it became accepted, and nobody has suggested we should go back. And that’s what’s happened in areas that have dropped the speed limit too. We won’t be going back either. On streets where people and traffic ...