Motorway 'Dangerous Driving' Speeding

[purpleheadedcerb]

TB. Some really good points well made there. I wasn't aware of the vast majority of that information.

Scott

[dcb]

vonhosen said:

But doesn't reducing the limit to 65mph create a greater gain for emissions ?

It may do, but that would be political suicide.

vonhosen said:

We have signed up to international agreements with regards to reductions in emissions and they won't come from one area alone. Lots of little areas will have to add their combined percentages to help in that.

I think you are in danger of stating the blinking obvious here.

Interesting to note that a lot of the Green lobby [ aka lentilists]
seem to think that a lot of fashionable tinkering at the edges
is the way to go, instead of looking at the primary causes
of a problem, and solving that.

My usual analogy in this case is trying to cut the lawn of a
football field with a pair of hand scissors. Yes it can be done,
but it is impractical.

vonhosen said:

A lot of our motorways run close to residential areas in some sections & I believe the last time that motorway limits were considered for a possible rise, it was increased noise levels that were a factor in leaving the limit as is.

Interesting to note that re-tarmacing with new high performance
quiet tarmac and then upping the limit wasn't considered.

There will also be exceptional sections of motorways where the
proposed new limit of 80 mph will be unsuitable.

[CombeMarshal]

You lot are crazy!
If you were to raise the speed limits on the Motorways there is no way that 90% of the junctions could cope with much more traffic ariving much quicker, it would never disperse in time.
As much as I hate to say it, if they enforced 70mph strictly we'd get everywhere much quicker!
They could try and off-peak and on-peak limit for the middle of the night journies

[GreenV8S]

CombeMarshal said:

You lot are crazy! If you were to raise the speed limits on the Motorways there is no way that 90% of the junctions could cope with much more traffic ariving much quicker, it would never disperse in time. As much as I hate to say it, if they enforced 70mph strictly we'd get everywhere much quicker! They could try and off-peak and on-peak limit for the middle of the night journies

If the traffic was heavy enough to cause congestion at the junctions then it would naturally slow the traffic down. Traffic is self-regulating from that point of view. It is when the traffic is lighter that higher speeds are possible, and desirable.

[CombeMarshal]

GreenV8S said:

CombeMarshal said: You lot are crazy! If you were to raise the speed limits on the Motorways there is no way that 90% of the junctions could cope with much more traffic ariving much quicker, it would never disperse in time. As much as I hate to say it, if they enforced 70mph strictly we'd get everywhere much quicker! They could try and off-peak and on-peak limit for the middle of the night journies If the traffic was heavy enough to cause congestion at the junctions then it would naturally slow the traffic down. Traffic is self-regulating from that point of view. It is when the traffic is lighter that higher speeds are possible, and desirable.

Exactually, The traffic would slow down, But it wouldn't have to if the traffic arrived at 70mph instead of say 90mph, Like I said, they need off-peak speeds, you can't seriously trust motorists to not drive at the limit!

[smeggy]

CombeMarshal said:

You lot are crazy! If you were to raise the speed limits on the Motorways there is no way that 90% of the junctions could cope with much more traffic ariving much quicker, it would never disperse in time.

Ever driven in Germany? Short sliproads and high speed differentials galore.

[turbobloke]

smeggy said:

CombeMarshal said: You lot are crazy! If you were to raise the speed limits on the Motorways there is no way that 90% of the junctions could cope with much more traffic ariving much quicker, it would never disperse in time. Ever driven in Germany? Short sliproads and high speed differentials galore.

Added to which, if you drive at 70mph in a car on a non-congested motorway you will already have a 15 - 20 mph differential between you and similar traffic i.e. it's happening all the time, now.