“You can’t drive 10 mph never mind 20 mph” - that was the reaction of YEP readers to proposals to slash the speed limit across a swathe of Leeds City Centre streets.

As part of long-standing ambitions to improve Transport and Infrastructure and Health & Wellbeing, Leeds City Council has proposed to implement multiple 20 mph speed limits across the city centre.

Members of the public can comment on or object to these plans on Leeds City Council’s planning website up to Monday, December 1.

And Yorkshire Evening Post readers had their say on the proposals on our Facebook page this week about the plans.

Camaran Ah said: “Keep fooling people. Those streets most of the time can’t drive 10mph never mind 20mph.”

Christopher Morgan added: “It won’t be long before motorists will be demonised and banned from the city centre.

“I say stay home and support your local shops.”

Peter Murray said: “Weird, can you actually go more than 20 mph in Leeds centre anyway?”

Rick Lambert said: “Just get out and push your car around Leeds, be a bit quicker.”

Ann Beacon shared the same sentiment and added: “The traffic is so backed up around Leeds these days that you’d be lucky to go above 20mph anyway.”

Ike Hill said: “Thank God we have park and ride to be using if we ever want to go into the city centre.

“I’m glad as well we are restricting cars from inner city centre. Less pollution and traffic into the inner city centre specially when we have buses that can do over the last mile or so.

“The age of cars is over, time to swap it out for public transport, bikes and taxis or to walk to where you’re going.”

Under the new proposals, the following streets will see a complete speed reduction to 20 mph.