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Speed Limits, Road Safety, Technological Change, Economic Growth
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Why would you apply GPRS enforcement only to trucks? Have you never seen a car in a ditch?
TruckerT
The mass of trucks make them far more dangerous to other road users the faster they go, that is why the current limits are there.
If they increase the motorway limit for cars I think it should carry stronger inforcement.
But why want the limit raising if you don't want breaching it punishable.
An out of control lorry can cause a hell of a lot more damage than a similar speeding car in a like for like situation.0 -
The mass of trucks make them far more dangerous to other road users the faster they go, that is why the current limits are there.
If they increase the motorway limit for cars I think it should carry stronger inforcement.
But why want the limit raising if you don't want breaching it punishable.
An out of control lorry can cause a hell of a lot more damage than a similar speeding car in a like for like situation.
My point is this...
The motorway limit of 70mph for cars is widely ignored both by drivers and by police enforcers, and the proposal to increase it to 80mph is (apparently) accompanied by a requirement that the new limit will be properly enforced. ie, nothing much will actually change!
The single-carriagway limit of 40mph for trucks is also widely ignored, but when a large supermarket chain forces its drivers to observe the limit, the roads become a more dangerous place
If the 40mph limit was increased to, say, 50 mph, then Tesco (and the others) would no longer be responsible for generating unreasonable numbers of dangerous manoeuvres by enraged car drivers
Additionally, the average speed of traffic would increase and (so we are told) this would lead to economic growth
TruckerTAccording to Clapton, I am a totally ignorant idiot.0 -
I think we're going to be told that everything would lead to economic growth, from eating your greens to safe sex.Additionally, the average speed of traffic would increase and (so we are told) this would lead to economic growth"It will take, five, 10, 15 years to get back to where we need to be. But it's no longer the individual banks that are in the wrong, it's the banking industry as a whole." - Steven Cooper, head of personal and business banking at Barclays, talking to Martin Lewis0
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