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Motorists say their cars and bikes are stalling after a Labour Party - run council enforced a new 10mph speed limit on a road in England. Islington Council in London has painted the restriction on St John Street, just north of Smithfield Market. The Labour-run authority said the limit will only apply while roadworks, which are expected to last for six months, are in place. But one local, aged 68, said: "I walk everywhere now - there's nowhere to park my bike nine times out of ten. With all these restrictions, it's just not a viable option. If I was going long distance it'd be fine. READ MORE Households in England waking up to letters about 'one-off' free £100 payment "If it was 30 in the past, why isn't it still the same? It don't add up to me. At 10 mph, straight away people are going to be going slower, so they're going to pile up behind each other. "At traffic lights there'll be a lot more people sitting there and that means there's a lot more cars ticking over going nowhere." A second said: "It's a joke, it's ridiculous. In London, speed limits are a liberty. "Twenty miles an hour, they're blocking off all the roads, you just can't get around." A third fumed: "10 miles is a bit excessive, given 20 is slow enough, right? I don't think it's very well advertised, because most people will be going 20 and still think 20. I think it's b****y well low. "I get that they go on about emissions, but surely the slower cars go the more emissions they are kicking up." Hugh Bladon, from the Alliance of British Drivers, called the proposals 'laughable'. "If you ban all motorised transport you might reduce deaths and injury a bit, but we should remember that more people were being killed and injured, in the days before motorised transport, by horses and their carriages," he fumed. Hugh sniped: "It might be better to ban people from walking or cycling where there is any form of motorised transport."
