Plans to make Oxford a 20mph city are being discussed at a meeting at County Hall today.
County council leaders are proposing to roll out 20mph limits for residential streets across the city on a staggered basis, but 30mph limits are expected to remain for major routes.
Ian Hudspeth, the council's cabinet member for transport, is expected to approve a report containing the recommendations.
The proposals have been welcomed by Life Begins at 20, a group of residents campaigning for 20mph.
Some campaigners, however, including Lord Mayor Susanna Pressel, are calling for the speed limit to be introduced on main routes into the city as well.
Ms Pressel said: "Most of our arterial roads are residential streets so I think it would be confusing to have side roads 20 and main roads 30.
"A 20mph limit would reduce the number of accidents and most of them happen on arterial roads."
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