FROM AUTO EXPRESS

MPs' metric move to cut limits
Speed limits should be slashed to just over 40mph on motorways, say MPs
By Vaughan Freeman 18th October 2006


"A national speed limit of 50mph would make roads safer," said Griffith

And they've devised a cost-effective way of cutting legal limits on all roads in a stroke.

Nia Griffith, Labour MP for Llanelli in Carmarthenshire, wants UK speed signs to be read as kilometres per hour instead of the familiar miles per hour - and 70kph on M-ways equates to 43mph. This would cut the limits by two-thirds without having to replace a single signpost.

The radical call came as MPs discussed climate change last week. "A national speed limit of 50mph would make roads safer," said Griffith. "And I suggest we interpret all signs in kph, so 30mph would be 30kph - around 20mph. And 40mph would mean 40kph, or 25mph. This wouldn't cost a lot.

"We all want our cars and the freedom to use them. But why could we not decide to have a much reduced speed limit? Few people realise how much of an economy they can make by travelling more slowly, but at present they are unable to do that without feeling they are holding up other road users."

Backing the suggestion, Lynne Featherstone, the Lib Dem MP for Hornsey and Wood Green, N London, added: "This is a good idea, and it would be very cheap to implement; the ease with which ordinary people can do things and the cost of the proposals is important."

Meanwhile, MPs have been asked to vote on graduated speeding penalties without knowing what the final upper thresholds would be. The new measures in the Road Safety Bill have been debated in Parliament.

The idea would bring in fixed fines and points for different speeds. It's thought that doing up to 39mph in a 30mph zone would bring two points with up to 45mph attract­ing three. Drivers travelling at more than 46mph would get six points. But MPs don't know the upper limit over 46mph.

Brian Gregory, of the Association of Brit­ish Drivers, said: "It's absurd that MPs are voting without having all the facts."  
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Idiots, the lot of them. 

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well....

when iam on the m25, that is the speed limit anyway


so what is changed

Fair point, well made Havank...  

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Yep = mine does more gallons to the mile at 56 and above  
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But cars do more mpg at 56mph I seem to remember.

i seem to remember an engineer at BOSCH telling me that the 56mph spec was fixed some years ago and most high volume cars are designed around that speed for optimum drag coef and mph - made sense to me at the time

Yes, once upon a time they used to measure mpg at particular speeds to correlate with what we now know as urban, combined and extra-urban. 56mph aligned with the "combined" figure I think. 

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When have MPs bothered about facts?

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When have MPs bothered about facts?

O so true

Or the TRUTH ! 
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