Newport's proposed roads to go back to 30mph speed limit
Newport council, please could you show more common sense than the Welsh Assembly Members who implemented this 20mph speed limit, get Newport moving again, and put all main roads through Newport back to 30mph.
When you drive through Newport at the present moment in time its like being in a funeral cortege.
Norman Plaisted,
Newport.
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