Plans to cut speed limit rejected

[Puddenchucker]

Plans to reduce the speed limit on approx 35 miles of road to a max of 40mph (towns/villages are already 20 or30) have been dropped after "outcry".

https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/23592829.norfolk-plan...

So it appears that sometimes Councillors do listen (or are forced to climbdown rather than pushing though their own agenda).
The local authority has form on this kind of thing - a few years ago they proposed reducing the entire North West of the county to 40mph max except for a couple of A & B roads that would be 50mph.

There are, imho, sections of the road where 40mph would be appropriate (some where 40 would be inadvisable/imposible) but others where the current 60 limit is safe and reasonable, conditions permitting.

[eccles]

To be fair it's hard to get above 40mph on that road most of the time, tourists, pensioners, caravans and horseboxes all ensure you end up dawdling along.