New road network... for the qualified!
Discussion
OK, pie in the sky I know... but rather than waiting an infinite amount of time for the govt to reverse its anti-road and anti-speed tendencies, wouldn't it be wonderful to get all *thinking* motorists, along with the banks in which some of them no doubt hold high office, to invest in a road?
Not just any old road...
...but a dual carriageway, perhaps alongside a congested motorway, that (being privately owned):
(i) has no speed limit;
(ii) is only accessible by those with advanced driving qualifications - even IAM, given that they wouldn't be exceeding the non-existent limit.
It would allow the better drivers to get around more quickly and would enable us all to do something we enjoy, without fear of prosecution.
It could prove once and for all that speed alone doesn't kill, and that extra driver training is beneficial.
If successful, it could sprout a new road network full of sensible but fast drivers, who would of course make their journeys more quickly and so make the roads less busy.
And it would be a heck of an incentive to those drivers who travel along that stretch (say, Stafford to Preston for instance, or alongside a stretch of M4 or M25) to undertake advanced driver training.
Yes, I know it would be hard to get funding and a nightmare to secure land and planning permission. Perhaps it would be better to offer to buy some motorway stretches from the govt and try it out.
Either way, we can dream, can't we?
Not just any old road...
...but a dual carriageway, perhaps alongside a congested motorway, that (being privately owned):
(i) has no speed limit;
(ii) is only accessible by those with advanced driving qualifications - even IAM, given that they wouldn't be exceeding the non-existent limit.
It would allow the better drivers to get around more quickly and would enable us all to do something we enjoy, without fear of prosecution.
It could prove once and for all that speed alone doesn't kill, and that extra driver training is beneficial.
If successful, it could sprout a new road network full of sensible but fast drivers, who would of course make their journeys more quickly and so make the roads less busy.
And it would be a heck of an incentive to those drivers who travel along that stretch (say, Stafford to Preston for instance, or alongside a stretch of M4 or M25) to undertake advanced driver training.
Yes, I know it would be hard to get funding and a nightmare to secure land and planning permission. Perhaps it would be better to offer to buy some motorway stretches from the govt and try it out.
Either way, we can dream, can't we?
TripleS said:
For the most enjoyable driving would you not prefer a single carriageway road? I know I do.
Best wishes all,
Dave.
Well yes - but the advanatage of dual is its congestion busting nature. Given that all the driver's on it would pull back into the left once past the car in front.
Lovely idea - but too expensive.
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