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redmelons

Road speed limit cut to 50mph

Please sign the petition to 10 Downing Street calling for the speed limit NOT to be reduced:

Petition to Not reduce the national speed limit to 50mph

PeteH

Done

SteelD

Me too. I do hate it when governments do things for the sake of being seen to be doing something which then impacts on my enjoyment of life. Gordon is trying hard not to get votes at the next election.

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David

woodbutcher

done !

redmelons

Sean Corker of the Drivers’ Alliance is on The One Show tonight in a report about average speed cameras and the plans to introduce a 50mph National Speed Limit.

It starts at 7.00pm on BBC1.

Please do watch as this is one of the most important issues facing drivers/riders today.

There are plans to reduce the national speed limit to 50mph and enforce this with SPECS3 average speed cameras when most roads with a history of accidents have already seen a reduced speed limit along with the installation of a speed camera.

redmelons

MAG PRESS RELEASE

The proposal to introduce a blanket 50mph limit on 'A' roads is yet
another knee jerk response that fails to recognise the nature of the
problem it seeks to address, says The Motorcycle Action Group (MAG).

Latest official figures show that staying within a speed limit, but
going too fast for the immediate conditions, leads to more than 5% of all recorded collisions, which is more of a problem for society than exceeding the speed limit, a factor in just 3% of collisions.

Like the other 40% of collisions involving an error of judgement or poor reaction, there is more to be gained by addressing vehicle drivers’ attitudes and skills than dumbing down speed limits to the lowest level the DfT thinks it can get away with.

When speed limits are reduced below levels which make sense to people, they tend to ignore them and treat other limits with disrespect. MAG President Ian Mutch said "For some people there is a seductive attraction to the idea of ratcheting down speed limits on the assumption that the slower everyone goes the safer they must be. This logic fails to recognise reality or to find the best balance between reasonable expectations for mobility and safety. For motorcyclists, the main causes of death and injury lie with other vehicle drivers' and poor road surfaces, the government must deal with these issues and not look for smokescreens such as a 50mph blanket speed limit."

The Motorcycle Action Group – Protecting motorcycling

Nickwiz

If this carries on it looks like we may all have to meet up in Clink. I for one will not live my life according to some fuggin idiots idea of what is safe. Enough is enough. If I have to go like Fred Hill I bloody well will. And I'll shout about it long and hard to anyone who will listen.

redmelons

Well said Nickwiz. I've heard a rumour that MAG are going to have a demo in Leeds against the 50mph limit. I'll post details when I hear any more.

bovefrankj

Please keep us informed. It's time to be counted. As the guy on the One Show said, accident black spots already have speed limits, all that these proposals will do is impose limits on those roads which are not accident black spots. It was however the only memorable thing he said. TV programmes have their own agenda and place "entertainment" above factual reporting.

S3Partisan

In Warwickshire it's not a matter for debate.
It seems on all single carriageway A roads which were national speed limit a couple of months ago they have already imposed 50mph limits.

Never mind what the real accident statistics say, these ****ing idiots in power apparently aren't listening.



Let's hope other authorities don't take the same knee jerk reaction.