55mph Speed Limit

[ebikeerwidnes]

Sat navs and other route planners looking to minimise journey time would find the biggest motorways and quasi motorways less attractive, thereby directing more traffic onto lower-limit roads, generally smaller roads and those past more homes.

It may be worth it anyway, or it may be possible to do something else to rebalance the route planners, but such drawbacks should be considered.

That's a good point

I have noticed that some Sat Navs give you a route through North Wales which goes off the A55 "almost motorway" and through Colwyn Bay presumably because there is a 50 mph speed limit through the town

which is just crazy but they persist in doing it

 

[DRM]

Has that area been electing politicians who remove or refuse to install traffic enforcement cameras?

I have no idea

 

[Alex321]

Why is stop-starting through an unfamiliar town, showering pollution on its residents, less stressful than sitting still in a comfy chair in a heated cabin listening to your choice of sounds? Is this another thing we can blame on those unrealistic car ads of drivers swooshing through empty streets?

Well he didn't say it was an unfamiliar town. A lot of modern systems give you traffic alerts even when you aren't actually navigating with them.

But a lot of people do get stressed by hold ups, nobody really thinks of it in terms of "sitting still in a comfy chair in a heated cabin", even though that is in fact a reasonable description.

But there is also teh simple fact that most of us are driving to get somewhere, and if the delay is going to be longer than taking a diversion, most of us would prefer to take the diversion.

 

[mistyoptic]

With a Green Party document reportedly proposing 55mph speed limits for motorways, 69% of Britons would be opposed to such a move.
Even green voters don't like it:

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There was a blanket 50 limit back in the seventies during that oil crisis.

Seem to remember it worked reasonably well.

Mind you, people couldn’t whinge about it on soshul meeja back then
https://yougov.com/en-gb/daily-results/20260407-a2c54-3

 

[mjr]

Well he didn't say it was an unfamiliar town.

Well, that was the scenario of @gbb's we were discussing!