{"id":2204,"date":"2025-04-12T20:36:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T20:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/betterdrivingsaveslives.co.uk\/?page_id=2204"},"modified":"2025-05-10T09:47:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T09:47:45","slug":"a-brief-history-of-blanket-20mph-in-wales","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/betterdrivingsaveslives.co.uk\/?page_id=2204","title":{"rendered":"A Brief History Of Blanket 20mph In Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>>>>> Work In Progress<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Welsh Labour Party Senedd Election Manifesto 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"473\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/betterdrivingsaveslives.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FB_IMG_1746858289816-473x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/betterdrivingsaveslives.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FB_IMG_1746858289816-473x1024.jpg 473w, https:\/\/betterdrivingsaveslives.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FB_IMG_1746858289816-139x300.jpg 139w, https:\/\/betterdrivingsaveslives.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FB_IMG_1746858289816-768x1663.jpg 768w, https:\/\/betterdrivingsaveslives.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FB_IMG_1746858289816-710x1536.jpg 710w, https:\/\/betterdrivingsaveslives.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FB_IMG_1746858289816-624x1351.jpg 624w, https:\/\/betterdrivingsaveslives.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FB_IMG_1746858289816.jpg 946w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Welsh Transport Deliver Plan 2022-2027<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Implementation of Scheme September 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Petition<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rise Of The Resistance<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rise of Groups Questionning What is Going on  In Wales<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Concessions to Revert to 30mph<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Prince Michael Road Safety Award<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Declaration Of Scheme Success 2025 (guardian Article)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A Yorkshireman Now Living In Wales &#8211; Looking At Things<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Yorkshire man now living in Wales - Looking at things\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tgG2nDhwH_M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"552\" height=\"757\" src=\"https:\/\/betterdrivingsaveslives.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/485803698_1827380461387836_207263383617998756_n-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/betterdrivingsaveslives.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/485803698_1827380461387836_207263383617998756_n-1.jpg 552w, https:\/\/betterdrivingsaveslives.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/485803698_1827380461387836_207263383617998756_n-1-219x300.jpg 219w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Clean&#8221; Air, Dirty Money, Filthy Politics &#8211; The Big Bucks Behind The UKs Anti Car Policies And Air Polution Panics<\/strong>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/betterdrivingsaveslives.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG-20250412-WA0008-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/betterdrivingsaveslives.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG-20250412-WA0008-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/betterdrivingsaveslives.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG-20250412-WA0008-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/betterdrivingsaveslives.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG-20250412-WA0008-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/betterdrivingsaveslives.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG-20250412-WA0008-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/betterdrivingsaveslives.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG-20250412-WA0008-624x351.jpg 624w, https:\/\/betterdrivingsaveslives.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG-20250412-WA0008.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Twenty&#8217;s Plenty<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sustrans<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vision Zero<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Guardian Newspaper<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2021, The Guardian ran a series of adverts claiming that the newspaper was \u2018not funded by billionaires\u2019, and that, \u2018our readers&#8217; backing gives us the independence to hold the powerful to account\u2019. But The Guardian admited elsewhere to be backed, in fact, by a number of powerful philanthropic founda\ufffdons, including the ECF, as well as Open Society Founda\ufffdons, the Rockefeller Family Fund and more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since then, it has emerged that BMGF made grants of more than $12 million to The Guardian \u2013 equivalent to $116 per reader of the print version of the newspaper, according to the more recent published figures (The Guardian no longer shares its circula\ufffdon data) [41]. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though The Guardian has run many ar\ufffdcles denouncing the lack of transparency around the funding of right-of-centre CSOs and the influence of \u2018dark money\u2019, neither The Guardian nor many of its backers, such as the ECF, publish detail on their own funding rela\ufffdonships [42].<br>Grantor to ECF 2020 2019<br>Anonymous 36,102,621 9,376,180<br>Children&#8217;s Investment Fund Foundation 33,788,482 14,927,708<br>The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation 13,018,918 12,274,408<br>Bloomberg Philanthropies 11,304,571 11,853,323<br>Ikea Foundation 10,384,196 7,163,353<br>Oak Foundation 3,019,994 5,833,837<br>Open Society Foundations 2,557,329 &#8212;<br>Tilia Foundation 2,106,939 1,917,094<br>High Tide 1,856,436 2,455,880<br>Packard Foundation 1,387,086 1,012,047<br>Total 115,526,572 66,813,830<br>Amount (Euros)<br>Clean Air, Dirty Money, Filthy Poli\ufffdcs<br>19<br>Figure 10. Misleading Guardian advertising campaign<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>>>>> Work In Progress The Welsh Labour Party Senedd Election Manifesto 2021 The Welsh Transport Deliver Plan 2022-2027 Implementation of Scheme September 2023 The Petition Rise Of The Resistance Rise of Groups Questionning What is Going on In Wales Concessions to Revert to 30mph The Prince Michael Road Safety Award Declaration Of Scheme Success 2025 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2204","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/betterdrivingsaveslives.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/betterdrivingsaveslives.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/betterdrivingsaveslives.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betterdrivingsaveslives.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betterdrivingsaveslives.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2204"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/betterdrivingsaveslives.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3436,"href":"https:\/\/betterdrivingsaveslives.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2204\/revisions\/3436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/betterdrivingsaveslives.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}