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Shock cut in speed limits
Speed limits across Britain are to be slashed in a bid to reduce the number of road deaths and injuries.
Ministers plan to cut maximum limits in residential areas from 30mph to 20mph. On other roads, limits could go from 60mph to as low as 40mph, or from 40mph to 30mph.
Local authorities will enforce the new policy with more speed cameras and more traffic calming.
Nine people are killed and more than 100 seriously injured each day on British roads.
Tony Blair has pledged to cut these statistics by 40 per cent by 2010. Ministers believe the best way to achieve the target is a wholesale review of speed limits, starting next year.
It is the first overhaul of the system which has grown piecemeal as the road network has expanded since the Fifties.
Under the old regulations, borough engineers set limits largely according to the speed travelled by 85 per cent of vehicles on a given road. Safety experts say this is responsible for a high level of accidents and a culture of speed.
Now engineers will be expected to set limits reflecting the Government's concern over high accident rates, speeding and its wish to encourage more people to walk and cycle without being "bullied" by motorised traffic.
In London, hundreds of residential roads will have new 20mph signs, backed by measures such as road humps, chicanes and pinch-points. Hundreds of "mixed" roads with shops, schools or hospitals as well as homes may get the same strict limits.
Roads in rural areas - where there are more speedrelated accidents - will also be reclassified. But key distributor roads intended to speed large numbers of drivers in and out of London are unlikely to be targeted. It is expected there will be no change in the motorway speed limit of 70mph.
The new guidance is being announced ahead of a debate on speed in the Commons tomorrow. Robert Gifford, of the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety, said: "This is not anti-car. We need to be more creative and responsive to the problem that exist on the roads.
"Old methods of establishing speed limits are discredited and faulty. They were a result of the car and roads obsession of the late 1980s.
"By smoothing out traffic speeds, motorists should benefit from less congestion - as we see on regulated sections of the M25."
Now I am fed up with having to put up with this. Its all very well sitting at your computer moaning all day, SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE!
We need to organise something, we need all internet car forums in the UK to cooperate, get some big names being the cause.
What can be done to stop them? We need ideas folks! WE CAN MAKE THIS HAPPEN!
Shock cut in speed limits
Speed limits across Britain are to be slashed in a bid to reduce the number of road deaths and injuries.
Ministers plan to cut maximum limits in residential areas from 30mph to 20mph. On other roads, limits could go from 60mph to as low as 40mph, or from 40mph to 30mph.
Local authorities will enforce the new policy with more speed cameras and more traffic calming.
Nine people are killed and more than 100 seriously injured each day on British roads.
Tony Blair has pledged to cut these statistics by 40 per cent by 2010. Ministers believe the best way to achieve the target is a wholesale review of speed limits, starting next year.
It is the first overhaul of the system which has grown piecemeal as the road network has expanded since the Fifties.
Under the old regulations, borough engineers set limits largely according to the speed travelled by 85 per cent of vehicles on a given road. Safety experts say this is responsible for a high level of accidents and a culture of speed.
Now engineers will be expected to set limits reflecting the Government's concern over high accident rates, speeding and its wish to encourage more people to walk and cycle without being "bullied" by motorised traffic.
In London, hundreds of residential roads will have new 20mph signs, backed by measures such as road humps, chicanes and pinch-points. Hundreds of "mixed" roads with shops, schools or hospitals as well as homes may get the same strict limits.
Roads in rural areas - where there are more speedrelated accidents - will also be reclassified. But key distributor roads intended to speed large numbers of drivers in and out of London are unlikely to be targeted. It is expected there will be no change in the motorway speed limit of 70mph.
The new guidance is being announced ahead of a debate on speed in the Commons tomorrow. Robert Gifford, of the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety, said: "This is not anti-car. We need to be more creative and responsive to the problem that exist on the roads.
"Old methods of establishing speed limits are discredited and faulty. They were a result of the car and roads obsession of the late 1980s.
"By smoothing out traffic speeds, motorists should benefit from less congestion - as we see on regulated sections of the M25."
Now I am fed up with having to put up with this. Its all very well sitting at your computer moaning all day, SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE!
We need to organise something, we need all internet car forums in the UK to cooperate, get some big names being the cause.
What can be done to stop them? We need ideas folks! WE CAN MAKE THIS HAPPEN!
)I think the best way to draw attention to the issue would actually be for everybody to do exactly what we are being implored to do. Have a national public transport day. Two things will happen - first off everything will grind to a chaotic halt, because public transport will be completely over-run (creating significant financial losses for business), second off all the Livingstone loving bastards will be deprived of motoring taxes for 24 hours.
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