Posted on 01/07/2014 9:03:39 AM PST by managusta
The speed limit on one of Britain’s busiest motorways is to be cut from 70mph to 60mph under a controversial plan to meet European Union pollution targets.
The first ‘environmental’ speed limit is set to be imposed within months on a 32-mile stretch of the M1 – for seven days a week, from 7am to 7pm
The limit will be in place for several years, and any driver caught breaking it faces a hefty fine and penalty points on their license.
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I was unaware, thanks
Just curious...why are distances measured in Miles and speed in Miles per Hour?
Carter was President in 1973?
And W gave us Daylight Savings Time that is over half the year, and more than Standard.
Ah, thanks. If I’d read the whole thread before I asked, I’d have known that.
1973 was pre-Jimmah.
130 in Texas is posted 85.
It was, indeed, a welcome change. I have business in Las Vegas, Nev., which is 250 miles from my home. Under current speed limits, I can go there and come home the same day. With the double nickel still in force, I would have to stay overnight in Las Vegas, raising costs so high that I would have to discontinue this activity.
“The speed limit on one of Britain’s busiest motorways is to be cut from 70mph to 60mph under a controversial plan to meet European Union pollution targets.”
What if your driving a Tesla? Does the ‘logic’ enable such a driver to go 100mph then?
If they want to cut pollution, start with a lot less brain-farts such as this.
They could save time and resources by making a law that anyone cruising in the left lane for no reason have their license permenatly revoked and pay a $100,000 fine.
Maybe if they didn’t drive on the wrong side of the street.....
“Actually people were going to sleep around here and running off the road.”
Reminds me of a story a college prof told. They were driving his VW Beetle in college, and were bombed on hashish. They were pulled over by the police. The then student said, was I speeding officer? Cop said no, you’ve been doing 5 in a 55.
“”””Or driving 55 in the left lane and being run off the road by the people behind them.”””””
ANY SPEED. Driving in the left lane for no reason should be a capital offence punishable by the death penalty.
It’s ALREADY here in the United States. The EPA (not the state legislature) has been dictating Texas highway speeds for over a decade. Highway 59 is limited to 55MPH in Houston (it was even 50MPH for a stretch for awhile) even though they’ve admitted that Houston’s air pollution problems are not due to or (resolved by controlling) traffic pollution. The bad things roll in (it is a flat landscape) and additionally there is the petrochemical industry (but it is not the sole source of the pollutants that enter Houston’s airspace).
Could care less that it saves energy. The increase in travel times of any real distances was miximized and the oppression of speed enforcement (read revenue enhancement) was a constant issue.
At 55 MPH, I had as many as two active speeding tickets against my license at any one time but that number never reached zero. Now, with the speed limit at 65 to 75 MPH I have not had a speeding ticket since they raised the speed limit. Yep..I can’t drive 55
I don’t know where “55 is most efficient” came from.
Several variables... RPM at final drive ratio... coefficient of drag.... etc.
Since drag is different for every vehicle, that number cannot be absolute.
Yes.
Political changes?.
IIRC,during the 55mph years,some truckers blocked an interstate by riding side by side at exactly the speed limit.
Caused a massive traffic jam.
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Remember double nickel here in the US? I did 85MPH then and now that its back up to 70MPH I’ve slowed down to 80MPH. :-)
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