Reduced speed limit
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Steve Austin
The Marmalade Kid
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- Mlehworld
It'll never happen
Fab Foodie
hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
- Location
- Kirton, Devon.
Are they foaming at the mouth over on Safespeed yet?
Steve Austin
The Marmalade Kid
- Location
- Mlehworld
Does this sort of thing get them going then?
Fab Foodie
hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
- Location
- Kirton, Devon.
Yeah, and drive big V8s to compensate for it...col said:
hackbike 666
Guest
Speed limits are only there to be broken as the cops seem powerless to do anything nowadays as they are understaffed.
The 30mph limit over the Bow Flyover being a prime example.
The 30mph limit over the Bow Flyover being a prime example.
snorri
Legendary Member
- Location
- East coast, up a bit.
The response so far is er.... er.... predictable.Fab Foodie said:
thomas
the tank engine
- Location
- Woking/Norwich
For god's sake. People will still do 60mph. If it's not safe to do 60mph, then do 50mph, you don't need to change the speed limits - they're a limit not a target.
Mr Pig
New Member
- Location
- North Lanarkshire
I think it's a nonsense. Save drivers will still drive within their limits and careless drivers and boy racers will still crash.
I like whizzing down country roads but you need to drive to the conditions. The people who crash do so because they are taking corners too fast, overtaking without a safe space, not taking account of slippery roads or blind bends etc. In most of these cases a 10mph reduction in the maximum allowed speed would not apply as they're probably not at that speed when they crash anyway.
The stupidity of the anti-speed lobby is astounding. They bleat on about the number of road deaths, and their crushingly over-simplistic assumption that they are all caused by excess speed, when the truth is that the only way you can reduce crashes dramatically is improving the general standard of driving. If a boy racer wants to drive too fast he'll find a place and a way to do it. The only way he'll drive differently is when he better understands the possibly consequences of doing so.
And why do the limits only ever go down? How about seeing higher speed limits on some of the safer stretches of motorway? Cars are safer, more stable and can stop much better than they could forty years ago yet we're being told do drive them ever-more slowly. Will these people only be happy when we all stay home at all times?
I like whizzing down country roads but you need to drive to the conditions. The people who crash do so because they are taking corners too fast, overtaking without a safe space, not taking account of slippery roads or blind bends etc. In most of these cases a 10mph reduction in the maximum allowed speed would not apply as they're probably not at that speed when they crash anyway.
The stupidity of the anti-speed lobby is astounding. They bleat on about the number of road deaths, and their crushingly over-simplistic assumption that they are all caused by excess speed, when the truth is that the only way you can reduce crashes dramatically is improving the general standard of driving. If a boy racer wants to drive too fast he'll find a place and a way to do it. The only way he'll drive differently is when he better understands the possibly consequences of doing so.
And why do the limits only ever go down? How about seeing higher speed limits on some of the safer stretches of motorway? Cars are safer, more stable and can stop much better than they could forty years ago yet we're being told do drive them ever-more slowly. Will these people only be happy when we all stay home at all times?
Whilst reducing speed limits on single-carriageway roads is appropriate in some instances, I do agree with the raising of speed limits on motorways and dual carriageways. Driving is almost becoming a brain numbing activity with so many decisions made for us. Whilst it may seem irrelevant to many, there is then the problem when driving on the Continent where speed limits are higher and it is difficult to react to the situations presented by faster driving due to a lack of experience. In this situation the safety of British drivers is compromised. Whilst speed limits should not be determined so that continental driving is easier for those who occasionally need it; perhaps there should be a greater unity of policy given that international travel / driving is so accessible. It also seems to be ironic that, in part of the developed world, connectivity is becoming more difficult and time-consuming to achieve rather than easier.
snorri
Legendary Member
- Location
- East coast, up a bit.
It must be good for cyclists.
The lowered speed limits will make rural roads more user friendly for vulnerable users and reduce noise pollution from motor traffic.
Many drivers treat the speed limit as a target speed rather than a limit, so a reduced limit can only be good.
The lowered speed limits will make rural roads more user friendly for vulnerable users and reduce noise pollution from motor traffic.
Many drivers treat the speed limit as a target speed rather than a limit, so a reduced limit can only be good.
Black Sheep
Guru
- Location
- Rammy
tis stupid.
they will have to make sure that everyone knows its changed or change all the national speed signs to say 50mph.
theres a road near my parents' house that i've always been able to get any car i've driven down it at 60mph despite the tight bend that occasionally has some flowers tied to a tree. the road is now all 40mph because of this corner, do people take much notice? no.
they would do better to remove stupid road signs and simplify the information presented to drivers and put warnings up for tight or sudden bends, teaching drivers interpret the information.
During the summer i was working as a contractor being sent round various schools in the UK and expected to get from coventry to the rhonda valley in wales for 9am, due to roadworks, a 3 hour drive, with a 50mph limit on most of those roads, would add an extra hour, impacting on various businesses that rely on deliveries in areas with no motorway network.
they will have to make sure that everyone knows its changed or change all the national speed signs to say 50mph.
theres a road near my parents' house that i've always been able to get any car i've driven down it at 60mph despite the tight bend that occasionally has some flowers tied to a tree. the road is now all 40mph because of this corner, do people take much notice? no.
they would do better to remove stupid road signs and simplify the information presented to drivers and put warnings up for tight or sudden bends, teaching drivers interpret the information.
During the summer i was working as a contractor being sent round various schools in the UK and expected to get from coventry to the rhonda valley in wales for 9am, due to roadworks, a 3 hour drive, with a 50mph limit on most of those roads, would add an extra hour, impacting on various businesses that rely on deliveries in areas with no motorway network.
