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ronk

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 Durham
From the Telegraph

New guidance unveiled yesterday by the Department for Transport will make it easier for local authorities to introduce the limit on the quietest roads.
The vast majority of rural roads are currently governed by a 60mph limit. But under this move motorists could face fines if they drive over 40mph.
 
ronk said:
From the Telegraph

New guidance unveiled yesterday by the Department for Transport will make it easier for local authorities to introduce the limit on the quietest roads.
The vast majority of rural roads are currently governed by a 60mph limit. But under this move motorists could face fines if they drive over 40mph.
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Perhaps they should look at the idiots in Corsas and Saxos that scream around our town centres :thumbsdown: at 60mph in the middle of the night before they start clamping down at people driving along quiet country roads...
 
They want us all to drive about in little tin boxes from Korea.

I might consider it when our leaders take the number 9 bus to parliament!

Till then :driving:
 
They have already done this to a lot of rural roads where we are. Really don't understand it, at all - fun spoiler, nothing else.

Agree with mrlozzer :thumbsup: I live in a decent enough street (though just behind is chav heaven) and last night some arse pitched up in our street with his stereo at max volume, revving his engine at about midnight. Nothing to do with this post you say... But tonight not 10mins ago he was here again, and this time he wheel spun about 20m down my road, which is a cul-de-sac. If he comes back tomorrow and I see him I'm going to slash his tyres, tear off his speed stripes, tie him to my tree with them, then beat him with his wing mirrors until he cries for his mummy :x

Looking back, that rant has nothing to do with changing 60mph limits to 40mph or saxos in a town centre, but I needed to get it off my chest so thanks for your patience :D
 
I hear what you say and it is quite relevant. 60mph in a proper car in the proper conditions is absolutely fine and dandy - but a crappy little banger flying about at even 30mph in a cul-de-sac is bonkers and i cant blame you if you have boiling bile! Burst his speakers as well!

Bad behaviour from a few get us all bad press and suffer the consequences that tend to follow!
 
But in fairness a lot of rural roads are not fit for the 60mph limit they carry.

I live on such a road and have had a car written off while parked in the layby in front of my house by someone who lost it on the bend, and watched two women in a Volvo being hauled up a 30 foot bank out of the river who did the same...

We just have to hope they use some common sense about this.
 
lacroupade, that is a fair point... I fear, however, that properly assessing the roads' fitness for speed will be judged too difficult / too expensive / to intelligent an approach that they'll just blanket change the limits by area.
 
These things are allegedly done following "consultation". Has anyone on here ever been consulted before such a change local to them? I don't know anyone who has.

As Lacroupade says though, sometimes there is justification. Not far from me across the border in Lincolnshire, they have a very high casualty rate on their rural roads. It's mainly bikers but some of those roads just aren't safe at 60mph. A lot are though so hopefully common sense will prevail.
 
Bing said:
lacroupade, that is a fair point... I fear, however, that properly assessing the roads' fitness for speed will be judged too difficult / too expensive / to intelligent an approach that they'll just blanket change the limits by area.
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Yes, that's spot on Bing.
 
original guvnor said:
Not far from me across the border in Lincolnshire, they have a very high casualty rate on their rural roads. It's mainly bikers but some of those roads just aren't safe at 60mph. A lot are though so hopefully common sense will prevail.
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Apparently, we have some of the highest casualty rates in Europe over here.... but we also have some fantastic driving roads. With Cadwell Park up the road, we get more than our fair share of bikers, had a day down the track, and all think they're Barry Sheene (showing my age here :oops: ). Earlier this year, I went round a 120 degree bend to find some numpty with his bike leant over, and his head on my side of the road. Very close miss, expect he sh@t himself. My wife (in her job) has attended more than her fair share of 'man on bike meets lorry' incidents, they never end in a good way. But of course its not all bikes. Drivers have to realise that many of the roads here have wide ditches either side, and raised road levels, so if you come off the road, its going to hurt.

original guvnor said:
Bing said:
lacroupade, that is a fair point... I fear, however, that properly assessing the roads' fitness for speed will be judged too difficult / too expensive / to intelligent an approach that they'll just blanket change the limits by area.
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Yes, that's spot on Bing.
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Yep, can see that over here also. They'll probably publicise it as a 'green/safety' campaign. Just makes more law breakers out of the general population, and more disdain for the common sense of our law makers.
 
Yes, the scatter gun approach.
That's how the are going to deal with binge drinking, charge us all double!
(No doubt theirs will all be on expenses so no worries in that department)

I'm turning into a grumpy old man, :D
 
Bing said:
lacroupade, that is a fair point... I fear, however, that properly assessing the roads' fitness for speed will be judged too difficult / too expensive / to intelligent an approach that they'll just blanket change the limits by area.
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This is exactly my worry too... I think the problem is that it is too easy to blame speed limits for accidents. Our house is on a unmarked road which is a shortcut to a local village school. It is just about wide enough for two cars to pass with care and there is a blind corner. Some parents complained to the school about how dangerous it is... I watched a very near miss occur one morning. A group of five or six parents, some with pushchairs in front of them, were standing in the road, just the other side of the blind corner. They weren't crossing the road, they were chatting in the middle of the road. There is a pavement no more than 4 metres away. A car came up the road - too fast, but probably not breaking the 30mph limit, rounded the corner and almost hit the people in the road. The driver was a mother who was late for dropping junior off at school. Thankfully, no collision actually occurred.

The result? They want to place a 20mph limit on the road. At all times, not just at school times. Now, I wouldn't have a problem with that per se, as the road is too badly potholed to drive quickly in any case. But they also want traffic calming. And speed bumps too. And possibly, they are considering a one-way system!!

Why? Because it is no doubt easier than trying to educate everybody concerned. The driver - a local who knew the area - was driving far too quickly around a blind corner. The pedestrians - adults - should have known better than to chat in the middle of the road...

Again, slightly off topic, but it illustrates that local authorities will always blame speed as the issue, rather than idiocy.
 
Dont forget the fact they also want EVERYONE to have a black box monitoring unit in their vehicle - that measures everything INCLUDING how close you drive to the car in front.....its like V for Vendetta is coming true.... :headbang:
 
Is this really about safety or raising money via mobile speed cameras.
Is it single track roads or all country roads because some country roads are slow at 60mph!
 
georgie_no23 said:
Dont forget the fact they also want EVERYONE to have a black box monitoring unit in their vehicle - that measures everything INCLUDING how close you drive to the car in front.....its like V for Vendetta is coming true.... :headbang:
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