M25 variable speed limits

[CaptainRAVE]

I have seen them flash, but then I have also gone through at higher speed and nothing has happened. I am more wary when I see the HADECS 3 cameras as a lot more have popped up on this stretch (M1 to M11 junctions) of the M25.

 

[Orionaut]

Personally I think they should remove speed limits on sections of motorways, especially at night.

Actually, I am more the other way round. Nobody can see far enough ahead even with the best headlights on main, to safely exceed 60 at night.

In Montana (Actually, don't know if it the case today, but it used to be) extra urban freeways were totally De-restricted during daylight hours but with a 60 in force at night...

 

[Phemo]

After Guildford is what I'm on about yeah. Soon as you pass the Guildford roundabout heading south, it's clean sailing.

In the evenings and at night it's fine. However on various mornings between say 10am and 12pm I've seen camera vans regularly on the southbound stretch, a few miles before the A3 turns into the A3(M). I also see them northbound occasionally and almost always in the same two spots (around Petersfield) but they don't seem to bother with northbound as much as southbound. With that said I'm still waiting to get a letter from my northbound blast which will be 2 weeks tomorrow - they had the van a couple of miles before Liss that time.

 

[Nasher]

Actually, I am more the other way round. Nobody can see far enough ahead even with the best headlights on main, to safely exceed 60 at night.

In Montana (Actually, don't know if it the case today, but it used to be) extra urban freeways were totally De-restricted during daylight hours but with a 60 in force at night...

Yes but a lot of motorways are dead after about 9-10pm. There's just nothing to hit. On a clear night you can see perfectly fine.

When I worked nightshifts I'd see less than a handful of cars the whole way home after midnight on a week day.

 

[robj20]

The thing is the only reason to go faster than 70mph is time. There are loads of reasons not to go faster, higher emissions, increase braking distances and reaction times, larger impact forces, larger spread of speeds so for all those times that truck pulls our doing 55mph you have a faster approach speed.
You would get people treating the M60 and the likes as there own personal track, people years ago used to see how fast they could lap it.

People cant even refrain from using a mobile while driving never mind using appropriate speed.
Im all for smart motorways, thankfully most of them will be soon round manchester.

 

[Steeps]

80-90 limit at night? Maybe. Even on a 4 lane motorway at 2 in the morning you still get idiots who sit in lane 3 doing 65 and the odd HGV in lane 1 going along as normal. At 100+ is there enough time to judge if the car in lane 3 is a noddy who might swerve into lane 4 while you're moving over 3 lanes to overtake it.

 

[Diagro]

we're talking about night time during the day I agree. it is to busy to be doing 100+

night time when it's empty the variable limit could be raised.

I don't agree.

People would struggle to see issues at night. There are millions of people with poor eye sight who shouldn't drive