Speed limit on motorways.

[gavroche]

It seems that the new national speed limit on motorways is now 50 mph as I spent most of my time coming back from Burnley today at that speed. ( Average speed cameras to insure). The irony of it all is that there were 3 clear lanes most of the time, no cones and no road works so why 50 mph?
We are going to Devon for a few days soon and I dread the journey as the M6 and M5 are littered with 50 mph speed limits for miles.

 

[Piemaster]

Accept your journey to Devon will be slower than you think and take longer, if it isn't speed restrictions something will cause delays. You may be pleasantly surprised that way than trying to have some sort of desired time that you want to arrive at.

 

[Drago]

Travelling fifty miles in the space of an hour is astonishing really, when one thinks out it. I can't really seen the need to travel any faster. The way a lot of plums behave on the motorway I'd have no issue if that were made the prevailing speed limit and was rigidly enforced - Not 55, or 54, or even 51. Fifty, and blummen well not a single digit more.

 

[irw]

We are going to Devon for a few days soon and I dread the journey as the M6 and M5 are littered with 50 mph speed limits for miles.

Seriously, take the A49 via Shrewsbury, Ludlow, Hereford, then the A466 via Monmouth instead. It will take you the same time, if not slightly less, and be much more pleasant!

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Most of our trip up the M6 to Warrington this morning was driven at 70 - 75mph, there were roadworks between j16 and j19 with a 50 limit, a lot of the time we were the slowest vehcle on the motorway.

 

[Drago]

The average speed cameras on the M1 near J17 are averaging one victims every 5 seconds in each direction, yet they still fly through like Stirling Moss with a burning turd stuck betwixt his buttocks.

Its a tax on stupidity, a kind of motoring Darwinism.

 

[Dayvo]

Let the train take the strain.

 

[Welsh wheels]

It seems that the new national speed limit on motorways is now 50 mph as I spent most of my time coming back from Burnley today at that speed. ( Average speed cameras to insure). The irony of it all is that there were 3 clear lanes most of the time, no cones and no road works so why 50 mph?
We are going to Devon for a few days soon and I dread the journey as the M6 and M5 are littered with 50 mph speed limits for miles.

Journeys to Devon down the M5 always take forever.

 

[Dayvo]

Easy solution: why don't you have your holidays in North Wales?

 

[Drago]

Because they still have werewolves there.

 

[screenman]

I just do not understand why people do not use their helicopter.

 

[marzjennings]

Travelling fifty miles in the space of an hour is astonishing really, when one thinks out it. I can't really seen the need to travel any faster. The way a lot of plums behave on the motorway I'd have no issue if that were made the prevailing speed limit and was rigidly enforced - Not 55, or 54, or even 51. Fifty, and blummen well not a single digit more.

Not astonishing at all considering the century we're in and that the one hour record for cycling is 50 miles. Heck 50mph is barely out of third on some cars, second on others. I thought by now we'd have at least seen 80mph as the new limit, maybe even more.

 

[Ian H]

Journeys to Devon down the M5 always take forever.

It is a disincentive, to prevent too many coming down here and clogging up the peninsula.

 

[Profpointy]

Let the train take the strain.

Train take the strain is great, providng the destination, and indeed starting point is only a mole ir so from the station. It's hopeless if your destination is a village 10 miles from the station. If only there was an easy way of sticking your bike in the guard's van then you could just cycle the last bit. Alas they've pretty much done away with that

 

[Welsh wheels]

I just do not understand why people do not use their helicopter.

I do normally, but both my pilots are off sick. Jeeves offered but he doesn't have the right training.