Experimental 60mph Motorway Speed Limit

[Warren t claim]

I'm cutting edge me, yesterday I nearly finished rebuilding my vans original speedo- it had previously got its face kicked in. Now at least I won't have the misery of dribbling along with the needle hardly registering.
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Is that one of those new chinky LDVs?

[Eddie Honda]

It looks like it's due to pollution exceeding EU defined limits:

https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/car-news/ ... t-60mph-m1

Three year-old article that. Why has the story resurfaced again?

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/d ... s-22672856


We have our local nutjobs too: https://www.80max.ie/ Nothing would ever get done at 50mph.

[DodgeRover]

They're probably considering it as they are pushing ahead with the *smart motorways despite the safety risks

[LynehamHerc]

It looks like it's due to pollution exceeding EU defined limits:

https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/car-news/ ... t-60mph-m1

Three year-old article that. Why has the story resurfaced again?

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/d ... s-22672856


We have our local nutjobs too: https://www.80max.ie/ Nothing would ever get done at 50mph.

Because they're going ahead with it now and that was the best article that I could find about it without spending much time on it that wasn't behind a paywall.

[PhilA]

If that's the case make it 56 then at least nobody's fighting with truck limits*

Blanketing 55 here didn't do shit other than slow people down.

[LynehamHerc]

I guess that the truck limit in the UK could go up to 60 mph after 1/1/21.

I don't see it happening though, nor 56 as it wouldn't be clear by glancing at the speedo whether you're speeding or not whereas 60 is a clearly defined mark.

[treehugger]

Yep overtaking a truck at 57 will be a drag if you can only do 60.

[mercrocker]

Our local motorway (M27) has been under a blanket 50 limit for some time owing to conversion to "smart" (#makeawordmeanopposite) configuration. It is a complete and utter fucking ball-ache using it at the moment. Plus they have already had some interesting moments with broken-down stuff in live lanes as it is. A low blanket speed just means three lanes doing the same rate. Avoidance lane-changing opportunities become more dangerous, not less.

[LynehamHerc]

There seems to be some pressure to revert so called smart motorways to the old fashioned dumb ones judging by various articles I've read in the last few months. I assume it's fear of being sued for the deaths that they cause rather than an outbreak of common sense.

[cros]

I'm cutting edge me, yesterday I nearly finished rebuilding my vans original speedo- it had previously got its face kicked in. Now at least I won't have the misery of dribbling along with the needle hardly registering.
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Is that one of those new chinky LDVs?

No, Chinese ones go the other way, a man of your calibre should know that.