Ken Livingstone will impose a 20mph limit on every residential street in London if he is re-elected as London mayor, it has been revealed.
The mayor said trials will begin next year using wireless cameras to enforce the new limits.
The new technology will be cheaper than the conventional wired technology and better than speed bumps, he told reporters.
An estimated 400 20mph zones have already been created in London and the Mayor claims they have been successful in lowering deaths.
He said that cameras would be used to snare motorists instead of ‘cheap and miserable’ speed humps, adding: ‘My broad view is that in a residential area, there should be a 20mph limit.
‘That is what is about to be introduced where I live (in Cricklewood, north west London) but it's being done with road humps.
‘I think if you can say 20mph zones without the road humps there won't be any opposition.’
Transport for London is understood to have been given a £10million fund to introduce low-speed areas.
Boris Johnson, the Conservative candidate for the mayoral elections on May 1, reportedly backs the idea of a 20mph zone in principle but will not impose a blanket London 20mph limit.
Instead it is said that Johnson will work with local authorities to assess were 20mph limits are needed.
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