Premier Dominic Perrottet has labelled a proposal for a 40km/h speed limit in the City of Sydney council area as 'ridiculous'. 9News
"You've got to have a balanced and reasonable approach.""You want to ensure safety in our city, but we are a global city. We can't slow it down," Perrottet said.Should there be a blanket 40km/h speed limit in Sydney's CBDWhile Perrottet is opposed, the decision is ultimately made at a departmental level rather than in parliament."If there are cameras, it'll be a gold mine for the government," he said.
But City of Sydney deputy mayor Jess Scully, who proposed the blanket rule, said Australia is well behind the rest of the world when it comes to road safety. Scully said their council area was currently in a "perverse situation" where drivers turn from 40km/h main state roads onto 50km/h residential streets."There are areas in Glebe, Alexandria, Rosebery, where you actually have a lot of families, a lot of older people, and yet, residential street limits are higher than our main street limits."Much of the local government area already has a 40km/h limit on their roads.
Scully said a person struck by a vehicle going 50km/h an hour has a 10 per cent chance of surviving. At 40km/h, that survival rate goes up to 60 per cent. "We want to feel safe and we want to know that our kids and our grandparents and our neighbours are actually safe on the streets where we live," she said.But the introduction of a 40km/h limit on Oxford Street has drawn the ire of drivers and proved a substantial windfall in speeding tickets.Last year the neighbouring Inner West council proposed a
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