Community groups could help monitor new 20mph speed limits when they come into force this year, Carmarthenshire councillors were told. Legislation in Wales will change in September and reduce the default speed limit on single lane roads with street lights from 30mph to 20mph unless a specific exception is put in place.
Speaking at a council scrutiny committee meeting Cllr Deryk Cundy asked how the 20mph limit would be enforced. "Unless we can enforce it it's not going to work very well," he said. Cllr Cundy asked if the place, sustainability, and climate change scrutiny committee could write to ministers asking for enforcement funding but was told this was a matter for police and road safety group GoSafe.
But highways and transport manager Richard Waters said the council was looking to put in place a package of funding for local organisations, including town and community councils, to undertake "speed watch initiatives". These groups would monitor speeds and carry out surveys to gauge levels of non-compliance, which could then be fed back to police.
