Sounds more reasonable than what was originally proposed!
http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page20803
I cant agree with you I am afraid...
All it does is makes it easier for local councils to randomly change speed limits for no apparent reason....
More and more NSL roads will slowly become 50/40 .....With I suspect no drop in fatalities atall..
Its just some ponse in an office somewhere trying to make his mark on politics....
Dropping speed limits wont make people drive slower, if anything people will get fed up with the silly and illogical limits placed and decide their
own limit!..
Quite a few roads have been dropped to 50mph around my area.
You can object to speed limit changes, like planning permission they have to be announced and are usually found in the back pages of the news paper
somewhere.
Time will tell I guess.
The response is just semantics. A different wording but the same effect. Advice to councils is to reduce the speed on single carriage ways blah blah
blah.
It is symptomatic of this government whose attitude is authoritarian, i.e. they decide what is good for us and make us do it. It is the opposite of
liberal politics where you are given the liberty to choose yourself. Don't worry, so long as they don't do it before May, they won't
get to do it.
We had a 40 section extended by about 500 yards last year and the other week i noticed they had extended it by about another mile
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Originally posted by smart51
It is symptomatic of this government whose attitude is authoritarian, i.e. they decide what is good for us and make us do it. It is the opposite of liberal politics where you are given the liberty to choose yourself. Don't worry, so long as they don't do it before May, they won't get to do it.
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Originally posted by flak monkey
Yeah like anyone else is going to be any better All the parties are as bad as each other. None of them even have any of their own policies any more. Its laughable to think we even have a 2 party system. Its more like 1.5 parties to be honest.
All that happens is when the tories get in they look after their guys (pensioners and middle class) and when labour are in the working classes are generally better off. (Don't even bring the economy into it as that wasnt really of government doing this time around)
People are getting increasingly fed up with the 'nanny state' but I dont for one minute think that is going to change at any point in the next 10 years regardless of who is in power.
Simple explanation.
1, Roads with lower speed limits can be maintained to a lower standard to those with higher limits.
2, Maintaing roads costs money
3, Council Bugets May be getting reduced this Year ?
Discuss
Regards
Agriv8
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The Government believes that this targeted approach is the best way to ensure that speed limits are set at the appropriate level for each road.
dont they realise that people have to get a bout for bisness , not to mention the lost time & agro that this involves,
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(Don't even bring the economy into it as that wasnt really of government doing this time around)
inappropriately low speed limits would cause more overtaking and hence more risk, which can only lead to more deaths.
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Originally posted by jeffw
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(Don't even bring the economy into it as that wasnt really of government doing this time around)
That is complete twaddle I'm afraid. The person who de-regulated the banking system which allowed them to get themselves into the position that caused the collapse was.....Gordon Brown. His actions as Chancellor directly led to the banking collapse.
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Originally posted by Agriv8
Simple explanation.
1, Roads with lower speed limits can be maintained to a lower standard to those with higher limits.
2, Maintaing roads costs money
3, Council Bugets May be getting reduced this Year ?
Discuss
Regards
Agriv8
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Originally posted by flak monkey
Sounds more reasonable than what was originally proposed!
http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page20803
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Originally posted by MikeRJ
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Originally posted by flak monkey
Sounds more reasonable than what was originally proposed!
http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page20803
This is Labours SOP in introducing potential unpopular laws/plans etc. Leak out a horrendous version of the plan, everybody is up in arms about it, then denounce the original plans and introduce a cut down version and people are so relieved they accept it.
Theres a twisty mile of country road not far from me that was 60mph.. the cooncil kept moving the national signs back and now they gone all together,
leaving the first half at 30mph and the second bit at 40mph.
So, I turn left before that and there is another twisty bit of road for 2 miles at 60mph, at the end is the A690 dual carriageway which is
50mph
The whole lot is mad mad mad...