Government to move national speed limit to 50

[thermidorthelobster]

Sorry if this has already been discussed, but I missed it if it was.  From another forum.

The government is planning to reduce the National Speed Limit from 60mph to 50mph on many single carriageways.  This change would affect over 60% of UK roads - it could be introduced as early as 2010.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/driving/article5864847.ece

http://www.speedlimit.org.uk/stealthnsl.html

[Chris Putt]

Government = Bunch of <edit>

Already looking into evasion strategies.

[TDi90]

government can sod off.

[waveydavey]

Looks to me like another Gordon Brown Stealth Tax as well.

Drop the speed limit and you make more from the camera taxes fines

[marjan]

YO Gordon, what about more effort keeping an eye on the merchant bankers instead of acting like one  :x :x :x

The sooner we get this bunch of knuckle shufflers out the better .

[muddyjames]

I knew it would only be time before this happened. So many roads are becoming 50mph speed limits anyway I had a feeling they would bring it in as the national limit. :-(

Get rid of this waste of space and focus on getting the country out of the resetion not make people poorer by secretly bring ing in lower limits.

So will that mean vehicles towing will go down to 40mph and lorries down to 30mph? Yeah, that will work. NOT

[kelvin]

It won't be a problem to me unless they set the minimum at 50.

[McGuire]

 Won't be the first time the speed limit was 50mph (remember the seventies?). I didn't have any problems with it then and I see no reason why it should cause problems now.

[Jake]

I dont go over 50 in the disco anyway
On dual carriageway's i can get the speed up but on single lane country roads 50 is the max i want to go
 :D

[propes]

Yeah bring it on,i can go even slower then and annoy more people than i do now.Make it 30mph and il do 20! Bunch of *ssholes running this country.

[Monkeymantulp]

Is there not one of those online petitions to show a voice against the madness?

[propes]

Mmmmmmmmmmmm they work

[carracarra13]

well  um what can one add to that with out lowering the tone  :lol:

[bilge rat]

another popular move by our goverment ,, what next ?.

[crazymac]

I don't drive more than 50 on the roads round here, but that is not the point!!!

WHY do they think this is a good idea?? and WHY do I have to pay for more legislation that annoys me??

Wunch of Bankers

EDIT: Just read some of the links, and its the usual knee jerk reaction to a situation.

They reckon that New research by the Department for Transport has found that reducing the speed limit could save 200-250 lives a year and also reduce carbon emissions

So that by reducing the limit suddely the idiots that cause these crashes are going to slow down?? You canbet that they were no where near the speed limit when they caused these accidents in the 1st place!!!

But they go on to say this

Ministers plan to use average speed cameras, which monitor speeds over distances of up to six miles, to help enforce the new limit. The cameras have already been installed at 43 locations. The Home Office is expected to approve their wider use later this year

And so we come to the REAL reason!!

[lambert]

honestly i can't say i'm that fussed either way however, in a head on crash you would still catch the other guy with a combined speed of 100 mph and i feel fairly sure that even in a new car it would likley be the last thing you did.

[john]

seems like a reasonable idea to me. i cant go much faster than 50 anyway :doh: