arsie

So fun is going to be reduced even more

In the Times here!

The runaway nanny state keeps on truckin' ...

Ultra_Nexus

Heart Disease kills 100000 people per year.

So per expenditure, why not introduce a token scheme where by the more you visit the gym, the more you are allowed to eat crap?

This would save thousands of lives!!

Better yet - just make cigarettes illegal. Make alcohol illegal. (BTW - I don't drink or smoke, but getting rid of these items is totally stupid!)

Dropping the limit to 50 will only cause more accidents as people will continue to watch their speedo instead of the road. In the meantime, the slower throughput will also result in more traffic.

How long is it going to be before a curfew?

Actually, there isn't any money to be made in a curfew.

They will introduce a night tax or something because going out at night is dangerous and it's when nasty things can happen, so you need a special badge and this will cost you

Boab01

I think they need to ban night because night time is when most people die on the roads.

In fact, what they really should do is ban roads and cars, then we could use horses and cars. The world would become green and happy.

Write to your MPs guys, this is ridiculous.

LTB

I think they will see a large backlash against this and not only from the motoring enthusiast community.

Are they really that stupid or do they think that the general public is really that stupid ?

I really can't decide which one it is.

euan

I'm not so sure they would.

Plenty drivers don't do much more than 50 mph in smaller rural roads anyway ie the ones they are likely to be reducing (if this story is reliable).

While they may alienate us, I suspect we are in a minority as bunch of car geeks, and are not significant politically.

The "general public" also have a rather a lot of other things on their mind just now ie their jobs, their mortgage, their pensions and savings etc. I don't think being made to drive a bit more slowly is that high on the list of things likely to upset them.

russellhq

Just ban bikes, most road acidents involve them anyway

gaddafi

someone needs to crack a way to confuse the camera

like the old paint them with nail varnish trick

I had to make a long trip recently - lots of unfamiliar roads so high likelihood of falling foul of a scamera

fortunately, someone had nicked my number plate before I set off

first time ever a thief may have saved me money

Fletch

And I heard a radio ad for asbestos dangers recently that stated, more people die from asbestosis poising every year than in road accidents.

Fletch

To be honest, if they replace the signs with a sign it will probably improve the speed.
As most of the idiots I come across seem to think that means 40 mph


I have actually been questioning people, and I'm always amazed and the number of, seemingly intelligent, friends and work mates that really thought it was 40.

LTB

I really resent the 'we' in the following quote:

Don't tar me with the same brush thank you Mr. Politikunt.

I haven't been killing anybody for the last 19 years on our roads and I have no intentions to do so in the future.

In fact I'm more than a little confused, I always drive to the conditions which means that I often transgress the speed limit, but so far I haven't killed anybody, nor been in an accident for that matter. I'm clearly doing something wrong.