Hopefully not a repost

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...295467,00.html


I actually agree with this IF it is done properly and only dropped on dangerous roads and they increase others.


However this got my goat and I gave up reading after that.

Quote from stupid bint : "Direct Line also called for the standard rural road speed limit to be cut to 40mph. A spokeswoman said:

 

It's never going to be done properly. It's just an excuse for the government to be a killjoy. Why do they think speed is such an issue. There's too many dozy ****ers driving around at 40 mph everywhere who don't signal, use their mirrors or have any kind of lane discipline.

 

Try driving in Dorset - most of the people round here still think that the limit is as fast as the guy with the flag can run

 

Also, there is far too much uncertainly arouns speed limits as it is, this just paves the way for more people not knowing the limit on any given stretch of road.

And a whole lot more people watching their speedometers instead of the road (there go more bunnies then).

Still, good news fro Britains ailing signage industry

 

you know what goning to happen. There will be blanket 20mph limits on roads and 50 on m'ways, then put average speed camera everwhere. The fines will go up, there will be 0 zero tolerance, All in 5 years i reckon. So at the next election vote these dimwits out

 

It seems you can't win either way heads you lose because the slower you drive the more inefficient the car is and therefore bad for the planet. Tales you lose because the slower you drive the less concentration you require and thus more likely to have an accident. whatever happened to the old fashined word "commonsense"...............maybe that's two words!!!!

 

As I read somewhere the other day;

Common sense doesn't seem to be that common anymore

 

I've noticed over the past year a lot of villages in Northumberland moving their 30mph zones out for some distance into the old deristricted zones for no reason.

Very annoying

 

We had a recent change not far from here - 30 zone moved 300 yards further up the road, and the rest of the stretch reduced to 50 instead of national speed limit - its not like its a twisty road either - its pretty straight.

 

And has anybody noticed how some roadworks on the motorway are now 40mph and not 50...?