Motorway speed limit could be cut from 70mph to 60mph to reduce emissions
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So people can belt along freely at 120MPH? Are you insane? People can barely control their cars at 60.
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The ironic thing is that current EV drivers are generally the least likely to be driving at speeds higher than 60mph, as battery drain is too high
You haven driven an i3 so - faster than any "norma" car I've been in.
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Seems to work fine on the German autobahns. I feel a lot safer driving there than here.
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People in Germany seem to have no problems, nor people in Italy (where the limits are higher), or in a lot of EU countries for that matter!
120? Pfft, is that all you've got...hopefully you're not hogging the outside lane holding me up
Since the lowest amount of accidents happen on our motorways as it is, then travelling in a straight line with everyone else at 70mph is not really a problem compared to 60 on an A road. Don't equate general A/B road driving to the motorways
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Give everyone a free bike. 99% of them will just sit in the garage, but at least I get a free bike. Isn't that what's important? Me getting free stuff?
But the autobahn does have speed limits, in places it is needed over 50% has a speed limit like through towns and cities. that's fine, but no speed limit at all, no country has that, and it is insane.
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You're taking my first a little too literally. I didn't mean never have any speed limits anywhere, I just mean remove them on motorways like the M1 which still has a 70mph limit (and even slower in places), in the middle of nowhere!
There's a lot of evidence to suggest removing speed limits actually reduces accidents also.
Should be increased, so cars have to spend less time on the road 
We have some of the safety motorways in the world, so they should stop messing with them. The more distractions they make (like low speed limits and cameras) the more dangerous it gets, not safer.
We have some of the safety motorways in the world, so they should stop messing with them. The more distractions they make (like low speed limits and cameras) the more dangerous it gets, not safer.
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Except it doesn't work like that. With the Greens in power here there are bus lanes everywhere bottlenecking traffic a forest of traffic lights every 10 metres stop, start, stop, start, stop, start... and on and on. The result is people spend half their lives sat in a jam or slow moving traffic with their engines running and the result is one of the worst emissions rate in the country. It doesn't stop people using their cars just makes their lives a misery and actually increases emissions as everyone spends so bloody long not moving.
Was going to say! Can you imagine the chaos! And I agree, there are times a higher speed is safe, I don't tend to drive on motorways that would support it sadly, the M66 isn't suitable for something like that, and the M60 is probably going to be eternally 50MPH.
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They should try it on the M6 Toll as an experiment.
My understanding is that the speed reduction would be on sections of motorways close to dense population areas such as Leeds, Sheffield and Birmingham and not the whole motorway network. Thinking about this, both the French and Spanish already do this on their free motorways when you get close to cities. Reducing your speeds for 10 miles by 15% isn't really going to make a huge difference to driving times.
You'd be lucky to do 60 near those places anyway!
My OH got clocked at 84mph at the end of the M4 (bristol) at 04:30.
I'd like to see the stats on how many accidents on the Motorways are due to high speed. Most of the accidents I've seen have been at much much lower speeds when people aren't concentrating.
I used to run a trunker route from Glasgow down to Tewkesbury (daytime) and when they were doing major roadworks a few years ago and large parts of the M/way was a 50 limit we actually managed the route quicker than when it was fully open. Not by much but we also used up less fuel.
I'd like to see the stats on how many accidents on the Motorways are due to high speed. Most of the accidents I've seen have been at much much lower speeds when people aren't concentrating.
I used to run a trunker route from Glasgow down to Tewkesbury (daytime) and when they were doing major roadworks a few years ago and large parts of the M/way was a 50 limit we actually managed the route quicker than when it was fully open. Not by much but we also used up less fuel.
And A Roads. One particular road near me supposedly got changed from 60mph to 50mph due to a number of accidents, despite the fact that all the accidents happened on either straight bits of road (?) or corners where even at 80mph you'd come out the other side of it just fine I'd imagine.
This for months I spent travelling to Leeds and back and found the 50 mph average area was the best moving area, it took me an hour to get to Leeds but since they removed the average it takes 1 hour 15 minutes lol