interesting plans 60mph speed limit

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25619914



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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...inister-reveals-government-division-plan.html


I feel we should move move towards greener ideas than limit speed.

And that some minister has accidentally bought a house close to a motorway

I live within 250 yards of a motorway, and dont feel poor air quality
and 50 ft from a train line
and regularly smell nostrop


I feel ideas like this would help http://www.geek.com/news/biochemist-creates-co2-eating-light-that-runs-on-algae-1487699/
 
If they introduce a 60mph speed limit, then we'll all be fighting with the bloody wagons on the motorway to getahead

Now obviously we can do 65 and be gone, but that would be classed as speeding....

Hope they dont implement it, wish they'd stop poking at things that aren't broken

Ziggy
 
About time! :D

Currently 50, soon to be 60. :D

Oh, that's not what it meant, okay. :(

But seriously now, I live a few miles off J30 of the M1.

"It is expected that the managed motorway schemes between junctions 28 and 31 and between junctions 32 and 35a will:

1 - Increase motorway capacity and reduce congestion;
2 - Smooth traffic flows;
3 - Provide more reliable journey times;
4 - Increase and improve the quality of information for the driver."

So the managed motorway scheme is to increase the capacity and reduce congestion, yet this proposal is to:

"These assessments indicate that, for operation at the national speed limit, the much needed extra capacity and the increased traffic flows that these schemes will provide will also have adverse impacts on local air quality at AQMAs and sensitive receptors."

So what we're doing is creating something to solve a problem that creating something else causes, where does it end?

Putting 60 limits on the M1 in my view is dangerous because:
1) It's going to push people off the motorway onto the country lanes (at speed)
2) Overtaking HGVs as a (potentially) 4mph difference
3) Lowering the speed differential on overtaking will lead to more drivers blindly tailgating in a very long line (already happens in the current 50mph roadworks)
4) It won't improve the information for the driver as they'll be more relaxed focusing on the back bumper of the car 10 yards in front of them.

Dom
 
I police the area around the first 3 junctions of the proposed stretch and see absolutely ZERO point in this.

There are hardly any residential properties within 300m of the motorway on our patch and there are already measures in place to reduce the noise such as heavy wooded areas between Barlborough and the M1.
 
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