Hiijinx wrote:I will always remember the taxi driver who took us to Gatwick one year -
20 limit : 30
30 limit : 40
40 limit : 50
NSL DCW : 40 - 50
So eager to zoom through the high residence areas - but on a road which imo is the safest to push the limit, he decides to sit back and dawdle along.
TheInsanity1234 wrote:So, it'd be interesting to see what you guys think.
jont wrote:You're unlikely to get much in the way of sympathy. However if you think limits are being set inappropriately low, why not write to your MP and challenge why powers to set speed limits have been give to local authorities with nothing in the way of accountability for how limits are set.
PeterE wrote:jont wrote:You're unlikely to get much in the way of sympathy. However if you think limits are being set inappropriately low, why not write to your MP and challenge why powers to set speed limits have been give to local authorities with nothing in the way of accountability for how limits are set.
And I wish him luck with that
It could be argued that in a sense a bad system of speed limits consistently applied according to standard and widely publicised criteria would preferable to one that is all over the place and leads to wild variations - not least the common scenario of a high-quality A-road with a 50-limit and tiny NSL country lanes leading off it.
fungus wrote:It happens, but it's down to poor obsevation. You may be able to claim mitigating circumstances if the speed limit sign was obscured by veggitation and the local authority had failed to keep the sign visible by not cutting back the veggitation, but you would need to provide photographic evidence.
TheInsanity1234 wrote:fungus wrote:It happens, but it's down to poor obsevation. You may be able to claim mitigating circumstances if the speed limit sign was obscured by veggitation and the local authority had failed to keep the sign visible by not cutting back the veggitation, but you would need to provide photographic evidence.
There weren't even any signs, it was all one 30 zone, but it was mostly country roads with clusters of houses here and there, and there weren't any repeater signs. There are street lights, but they're mostly hidden by trees e.t.c with no hope of spotting them at anything faster than walking pace really (I only saw them when I went along the road on Google Streetview later on to double check the lack of presence of 30 signs.)
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