Road safety campaigners want to make residential streets in Marsh and Edgerton 20mph zones.
Marsh Community Forum is leading a bid to drive down the speed of motorists in local side streets.
Calderdale Council has widely introduced 20mph zones and campaigners want Kirklees Council to follow suit.
The forum will launch an online and paper petition calling for all residential areas to have a 20mph limit.
Organisers plan to hold a public meeting early in the New Year and will lobby councillors seeking their support.
The forum wants the limit on side roads but not major routes such as Westbourne Road, New Hey Road, Edgerton Grove Road and Gledholt Bank.
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Committee member Mike Woodward told a meeting of the forum that many towns and cities across the UK had introduced 20mph zones with 13 approved in Calderdale alone.
Most residential streets would be covered in Calderdale by 2017, the Examiner has reported.
Mr Woodward said local authorities were realising that the 30mph limit was “no longer fit for purpose” in residential streets.
However, he said, Kirklees was lagging behind. If Kirklees insisted on maintaining the 30mph limits it would be “increasingly out of step” with what’s happening elsewhere.
Forum acting chairman Paul Cooney said there were many benefits of a 20mph zone. These included improved road safety and a better quality of life and health as people were encouraged to take to the streets, walking or cycling.
The forum has joined the national ‘20’s Plenty’ campaign and plans to press local councillors and candidates in the run-up to next May’s council elections.
