A 50mph speed limit for the M20 motorway has been proposed to cut noise and air pollution.
Maidstone Council has seemingly forgotten what a motorway was built for in the first place and now want to slow people down by 20mph.
This was to reduce pollution to ‘acceptable standards’, said operations director Alison Broom after a report on nitrogen dioxide levels.
The measure would reportedly affect the stretch from junctions six to eight.
Interestingly one of the biggest complainants of the noise is reportedly parish councillor Pat Brooks, who lives 70ft from the M20 and told the BBC that pollution was a major local concern.
Mrs Brooks, who has lived at Harbour Land Farm for 30 years, said: ‘The noise is one of the worst things. We can never have the windows open.’
She was given secondary double glazing by the Highways Agency when the number of lanes on the M20 increased.
But she added: ‘If you clean the room-side of the double glazing, you get black coming off which can't be rinsed off, and it's grease and particles, and this goes for all the outside paintwork.’
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