Speed limit reductions...anywhere else getting polluted with these new limits/signs?

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So the summer comes and the roads are much easy to traverse compared with the harsh winter we had. The sun is out and the roof is down, great fun for travelling to and from work, highlight of my working day.

My commute is all on NSL back roads, through a few small 30 limit towns or alternatively down the A34 and then onto dual carriageways. I've noticed in the last few days that new signs have sprung up everywhere taking the NSL roads down to 50 limits and so I took the dual carriageway route, which is now a 40 limit due to housing being built in a field near it. My commute took another 7 minutes today (yes I did time it!) as everyone was going extremely slow behind lorries/vans/scaffolding trucks at the new limits.

Is this to try get us saving fuel? Is this to prevent accidents (which I never see at commuting hours…)? or simply to make me get up 10 mins earlier in the morning/encourage me to overtake?

/rant over.

Anywhere else getting these stupid new speed reductions or just Oxfordshire?
 
I'm all for lower speeds, in an ideal world we would all drive prius's (priuii?) and chow on flowers and lettuce. next time you accelerate in your - what is definitely overpowered for your requirements - car I hope you appreciate the ever widening hole in our ozone layer, the ever dwindling stocks of fossil fuels and the ever increasing road deaths caused by speeding drivers.

Gill xx
 
Yeah what a load of tosh, bloody nanny state, I like to floor it wherever I drive and to hell with everyone else, my car, my life, my fuel tank. The sooner they realise that lane 3 is reserved for german cars that drive at a minimum of a tonne the better :mad:

Will oo
 
Will Gill said:
I'm all for lower speeds, in an ideal world we would all drive prius's (priuii?) and chow on flowers and lettuce. next time you accelerate in your - what is definitely overpowered for your requirements - car I hope you appreciate the ever widening hole in our ozone layer, the ever dwindling stocks of fossil fuels and the ever increasing road deaths caused by speeding drivers.

Gill xx
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Will Gill said:
Yeah what a load of tosh, bloody nanny state, I like to floor it wherever I drive and to hell with everyone else, my car, my life, my fuel tank. The sooner they realise that lane 3 is reserved for german cars that drive at a minimum of a tonne the better :mad:

Will oo
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Schizophrenia right here!
 
I would be happy with lower speed limits all round if the weather was permanently sunny. As it isn't, I want to spend as little time out in the gloom as possible, and therefore go as fast as possible. The 535d is proving useful at helping this with.
 
None of it matters in London anyway, want to know what my average speed was yesterday?

Probably not but i'l tell you it was 7mph, oh yes a big 7mph!
 
I am also from Oxfordshire and have noticed 3 new speed reductions in the last week. The mobile piggy banks are also now back out in force due to the camera's being turned back on.

/sigh
 
Firestar_3x said:
On ya bike son.... :p

Would be quicker, and you could put booze in the drinking bottle.
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Dont think i havent thought of that.

But then i had another plan, get a driver then i can drink and be driven :D
 
Been happening quite a bit round here too... it's ludicrous.

There's one "bypass" called hatters way... there's no legitimate reason for it not to be a 60mph limit the entire way...

until a couple of weeks ago it was 40mph for 2/3 and 60mph for the rest... now they've taken the entire thing down to 30mph... it's horrible!

Also on the way out to harpenden... they've taken an old 40mph urban clearway down to 30mph.



Completely and utterly pointless... purely for revenue generation (yes, I have seen speed cam vans hiding along both these stretches!)
 
If people are having accidents because they are speeding then what use is lowering the speed limit? It only penalises people who stick to the limit.

How many accidents occur due to the vehicle concerned travelling at 60mph that can be prevented by having the vehicle travelling at 50mph instead? Probably none I'd imagine.
 
I get stuck in a convoy of cars doing 35-40mph every morning. I have no idea why no one will overtake. I have no idea why people travel at such a slow speed. All i know is that it's selfish to hold people up like that, it makes me late and it's so ****ing annoying.
 
I think the Govt just had a load of signs they hadn't used, felt they had to use them before the end of the financial year & so chose where to put them up by process of throwing darts onto a map.
 
Morbius said:
If people are having accidents because they are speeding then what use is lowering the speed limit? It only penalises people who stick to the limit.

How many accidents occur due to the vehicle concerned travelling at 60mph that can be prevented by having the vehicle travelling at 50mph instead? Probably none I'd imagine.
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This. I was doing 60 in an NSL yesterday, coming round a corner. What do I see coming towards me around it? A Zafira overtaking a tractor at about 40mph with nowhere to go. Fortunately there was enough room for me to practically stop.
 
Will Gill said:
Yeah what a load of tosh, bloody nanny state, I like to floor it wherever I drive and to hell with everyone else, my car, my life, my fuel tank. The sooner they realise that lane 3 is reserved for german cars that drive at a minimum of a tonne the better :mad:

Will oo
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Why the metric tonne? Thats only 100km/hr . . . . :D
 
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