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[andrewducker]

From the observation last night in conversation with Lilian that people complain about speed cameras all the time, but you rarely hear anyone saying that the actual limit should be raised.

Note for for'n types - speeds are in MPH.

[Poll #1257772]

Comments

[nuttyxander.livejournal.com]

I don't think we need to change speed limits up anywhere, and there is a compelling case for extending 20mph zones much further, especially where people live. I fundamentally don't believe that we should design or change our cities around cars. Cities are for people.

There's a lot of hot air talked now especially from the roads lobby that it's wrong to believe in a hierarchy of transport options which places any one form as being less important (the phasing of traffic lights against private cars in London being an example). I somewhat agree, rather liking equality myself, and wish that the cretins who've been digging up the (pretty awful) cycle facility I use to cross the North Circular and get to work every day thought perhaps maybe even for one second that they had to give equal warnings, consideration and as an outcome safety to cyclists, pedestrians and car drivers. Instead of which I get pedestrians diverted onto my cycle path and no warning. You would never close a road without warning, yet for a cycle facility which forms a crucial north/south link this is no problem.

There's some merit in increasing speed limits on certain types of trunk road but only if there is no need to share these roads with buses, cyclists and mopeds. This is the case only on a very limited set of roads and it should be remembered that congestion is far more an economic effect than of any link to the speed limit.

On the topic of enforcing the law, we really need to enforce the mobile phones and driving laws properly. Just because lots of people do it doesn't make it any more safe. It is morally reprehensible that we tolerate death as an every day occurrence due to the selfish nature of a majority.

Hmm, transport doesn't half get my goat.

[andrewducker]

Ok - what's going on in these last two comments? The one you're replying to wasn't calling for the banning of vans, cars, etc., just saying that purely living areas ought to have slower speeds in them and you're leaping in and attacking them in a frankly obnoxious manner.

If you want to argue, that's fine, but these last couple of comments have crossed the line of what I'm willing to have in my journal.