If it saves lives, it certainly is worth it, but it is likely to be turned into a political football, and kicked into touch eventually anyway – but in the meantime, even one child spared is a huge gain!
They have substantial numbers of signatures protesting against it, but they will undoubtedly ignore these initially , with an inbuilt majority in the Senedd waving two fingers at the protests?
They are claiming all sorts of unproven & unsubstantiated figures about how much safer it is at 20 mph than 30 mph, without taking into account the inbuilt safety features of modern motorcars!
Apparently, they are to apply the NPCC guidelines and will only prosecute for breaking the speed limit by 10% + 2 mph eventually ie 24 mph. but for a transitional period will allow 10% + 4 mph ie 26 mph.
It is extremely likely that there will be thousands of frustrated, impatient drivers over the limit – another good revenue stream?
However, despite the opposition, in reality , on a lot of the roads , it is difficult to exceed 30 mph anyway, due to volume of traffic – but they do need to apply common sense rather than Political dogma!