who thinks british motorways should raise the speed limit to 80 carrageways 70 small towns with schools 25?

Question

just one more thing i have an irish plate can i be done for speeding in england people tell me swansea cant contact dublin is this true please help

Answer 1

ok fine a speed limit of 80mph today we have safer cars but we also have bad drivers who cant control there cars at speed. yes we put the speed limit up but what next we go to 80 then its 90 then before you know it your doing 200mph on a motor way and thern you come into a town and and you do 30 mph. i find after doing 50 or 60mph on a carriage way and coming into a 30 zone very hard to adjust because it seems so slow and have found myself doing 40mph. SPEED KILLS AND ITS NOT THE CAR THAT KILLS ITS THE IDIOT BEHIND THE WHEEL. JUST LOOK AT THE STATISTICS where speed cams have been in operation accidents have dropped and ok you may want to sit a 80 mph but can you control your car. ive held my licence since i was 17 i stick to the speed limit and i have never had an accident so i think that speaks for it self. BRING THE SPEED LIMITS DOWN AND KEEP DEATH OF OUR ROADS.

ITS 30 FOR A REASON

Answer 2

As I drive 100,000 miles per year, I thought about this.

Most of the faster drivers tend to be agressive business-people on a mission. Most seem to be aware of what they are doing, in fairness to them, but with to-day's stop/start motorway traffic, I think that anything over 85 mph is probably a hazard too far during the daytime.

The trouble is, to drive safely at that speed, as most police drivers do in an emergency, it takes discipline, very good anticipation and requires perfect eyesight, which many people haven't got.

As another person who answered the question wrote, variable speed-limits would be excellent, and especially those controlled electronically.

As I drive all night usually, I am often tootling along at 56mph in a truck, and whilst this may assist fuel-economy, the actual speed is not a safety-issue at all, because 70mph would be perfectly safe with modern brakes at that time of night. Driving a car, 90 or even 100mph is perfectly safe, so long as people know what they are doing and have respect for the road-conditions prevailing at the time.

During the day, the 60mph truck limit (LGV1) is perfectly reasonable, because trucks that size, fully laden, take a long time to stop, even if all the wheels were locked under braking;which they cannot actually be, because that takes a wee bit longer to stop, and is far more dangerous.

Assuming normal, rather than peak-time traffic, an 80mph speed limit would be entirely appropriate, and quite safe for 99.9% of those who would drive that fast.

Answer 3

yes I think it should be raised, 70 is too slow. But I tell you what would be a good idea, electronic speed limits. At 3am on a completely empty motorway it should be say 100mph limit, and at 6pm when it's congested maybe 70mph. A road near me, has a 20mph speed limit at all times because of a primary school. FINE, except that for 4 months of the year the little blighters are on holiday, as they are on weekends, and after 4pm ..... so why is it still 20mph, when it's fundamentally a good road to do up to 40 on?

I don't t know about international plates and the dvlas ability to contact them

Answer 4

the speed limit in this land is really quite absurd. For instance, at 4am on an empty motorway you get nicked if doing over 70mph, why not go as fast as you like? if your driving sensibly, (ie not weaving lanes, got control of car etc) then why not? I used to live in the west country and the tiniest narrowist twisty country lanes where the hedges are brushing the mirrors has a limit of 60 mph!!! WHy? you would die if you got above 30 on some of them....its all about common sense,
improve the standard of the common driver and then you are able to increase speed limits, however, as stupid as they may be at the moment, with the current state of drivers on the road today, some may say that 70mph is too fast.....

Answer 5

first of all, Swansea CAN contact Dublin so you are not off the hook!
Secondly, yes I think it's a bit academic whether it is 70 or 80mph on the motorway, so why not raise it. But I'm against raising it on dual carriageways simply because a lot of them have turn-offs and cross-turns (think of the A303 through Hampshire and Dorset), and they are often not as well lit. Small towns with schools ... well I would keep it at 30. Where I live it is impossible to get out of second gear, anyway!

Answer 6

My brother was living in Wexford for a few years and when he came home one weekend he got caught on a speed camera - he never heard anything about it - the letter may have got lost in the post or maybe they couldn't trace his plates - not sure
Yes I agree with increasing the speed limit on motorways - the majority of people do 80mph anyway according to statistics but then would people start doing 90mph?

Answer 7

in accordance to the dep. for shipping, each and every year ninety seven% of human beings destroy the twin carriageway speed reduce in some unspecified time sooner or later, so this can merely legalise something that occurs besides. we are able to easily commence to rigidity about the challenge of drivers speeding when we've made constructive that each and every one the speed limits are life like. Dragging the twin carriageway speed reduce into the twenty first century is a good position to commence.

Answer 8

If you have a roadworthy properly maintained sports car, then there are some situations where it is quite safe to drive at 130 mph on our motorways.
Yet our nanny state has this arbitrary 70mph limit.
So yes changes would be beneficial, but the question is how do we implement the changes without appreciably increasing the risk posed by those who drive dangerously at whatever speed.

Answer 9

Motorways - 80 Yes
Dual Carriageways are already 70
Single Carriage way - remain at 60

Answer 10

Definitely not! At the moment, with a 70 limit, Plod don't get the hump 'till you're doing 85-90, if you're not driving like a tw*t. If they raised the limit, they'd start to enforce it more, & Terrible Tony would get even more of our hard-earned for his evil campaigns!