UK to up the speed limit at roadworks

RobAMerc

It effects only road works at times when no one is at work.
good call IMO

At least they have done some research and come up with a solution.

I suspect here we'd just get a lot of numpties shouting SLOW DOWN with the over simplistic (lazy) approach to road safety taken here

Leonard Hofstadter

Long overdue, it's beyond frustrating when you're stuck on one of those 50 mph stretches (and you really do have to do the 50 mph as there are speed cameras everywhere on these stretches of road), thank goodness for cruise control!

I love Sean nos

RobAMerc wrote: »

At least they have done some research and come up with a solution.

Do you have a link to this research? Or anything to support your post?

RobAMerc

I love Sean nos wrote: »

Do you have a link to this research? Or anything to support your post?

Wow, when did boards get so acedemic that I have to validate my thesis !
BBC News Story

Leonard Hofstadter

On the front page of the UK Times as well.

Irish Steve

Massively overdue, we got caught up in a series of serious delays last year on the M6 when heading for Holyhead, one of a number of sections of delay was nearly 15 miles of restrictions supposedly due to roadworks, and there was no work, and no vehicles doing anything throughout the entire section. This was shortly after a location where 3 of 4 lanes were closed off at 20:00, which resulted in huge queues and again, for several miles of lane closure, there was absolutely nothing being done, no evidence of any work and no vehicles or personnel in the section, that delay alone was nearly 45 minutes.

20 Miles further up,near Crewe, there was yet another major closure, fortunately, we were able to come off the motorway, and go cross country, but the combination of 3 significant delays made the rest of the journey to Holyhead extremely stressful, as there was no warning or indication of delays on any of the web sites that supposedly have information about problems. We'd allowed a good margin in the travel time for known delays and the like, so we still were in time for the crossing.

A sensible increase like this will make a difference, with the volumes that are on the move around the clock in the UK, a serious review of the way that serious upgrades are managed is long overdue, and I won't even start on the way that roadworks are planned and managed here.

RobAMerc

Irish Steve wrote: »

I won't even start on the way that roadworks are planned and managed here.

Yes, but can you imagine the uproar here if anyone even suggested upping speed limits for any reason anywhere ?

There would be a national outcry - with effigy burning and everything.
Eamon Ryan would even be on the radio giving an opinion ! ( God forbid )

BigEejit

They did tests with people wearing heart monitors and found that when people were doing 50 trucks often overtook them and so when there is a artic 1 or 2 foot away on one side and a barrier on the other and the found that their stress/pulse was high. At 55 and 60 this did not happen and also people did not concentrate on their Speedo as much and paid more attention to the road. As mentioned earlier this does not apply to roadworks where there are only cones between cars and workers, and not when people are working

dr.fuzzenstein

But, something something, speed kills, something something carnage!

Gerrup Outta Dat!

Gay Byrne is signing up for a boards account as we speak

I love Sean nos

RobAMerc wrote: »

Wow, when did boards get so acedemic that I have to validate my thesis !
BBC News Story

Did you mean academic?
Are we all supposed to go on Google now to understand random utterances now? :pac:

unkel

I drove from the midlands to Liverpool last month and there were roadworks everywhere. And pretty much nowhere were they actually working.

Gerrup Outta Dat!

Speed limits in housing estates and residential areas should be rigidly enforced with fixed cameras everywhere. Outside of built-up areas there should be no speed limits. People should be free to choose a speed that they deem to be appropriate. If you drive so fast that you cause an accident, then you should be held responsible. Let people judge for themselves.

ironclaw

Gerrup Outta Dat! wrote: »

Speed limits in housing estates and residential areas should be rigidly enforced with fixed cameras everywhere. Outside of built-up areas there should be no speed limits. People should be free to choose a speed that they deem to be appropriate. If you drive so fast that you cause an accident, then you should be held responsible. Let people judge for themselves.

So the guy doing 160km/h on a motorway should be held liable for the numpty doing 100km/h and cut him off? It's not so cut and dry.

I'd rather just see our current laws enforced and then we can talk.

Leonard Hofstadter

ironclaw wrote: »

So the guy doing 160km/h on a motorway should be held liable for the numpty doing 100km/h and cut him off? It's not so cut and dry.

I'd rather just see our current laws enforced and then we can talk.

In fairness, that is sort of how it works in Germany on the autobahns. You can be held partly responsible for if you're involved in an accident and you were travelling above the Richtgeschwindigkeit (recommended speed limit) of 130 km/h despite it being perfectly legal to drive at such speeds ("Erhöhte Betriebsgefahr").

meathstevie

captainspeed wrote: »

In fairness, that is sort of how it works in Germany on the autobahns. You can be held partly responsible for if you're involved in an accident and you were travelling above the Richtgeschwindigkeit (recommended speed limit) of 130 km/h despite it being perfectly legal to drive at such speeds ("Erhöhte Betriebsgefahr").

You won't find too many clowns doing about 70km/h in the overtaking lanes of a German motorway either.

dil999

Gerrup Outta Dat! wrote: »

Speed limits in housing estates and residential areas should be rigidly enforced with fixed cameras everywhere. Outside of built-up areas there should be no speed limits. People should be free to choose a speed that they deem to be appropriate. If you drive so fast that you cause an accident, then you should be held responsible. Let people judge for themselves.

I am sure the innocent people you kill in the accident will be delighted with that also.

RobAMerc

dil999 wrote: »

I am sure the innocent people you kill in the accident will be delighted with that also.

So to your mind the person to blame is the driver travelling at 160kph and the fool who pulls out is not to blame because he is driving safely at 100kph?
Is it because nobody would have got hurt if the chap driving at 160 reduced his speed to 120?

Give me a break!