Lower speed limits advised for road accident blackspots

[MalcQV]

And how will they police this? And how much is it going to cost to put up new speed limit signs all over the country? Madness, utter madness-get rid of these people now-PLEASE!!!

Actually very easy for a two lane blacktop (no central reservation) this will mean 50mph and not 60mph. Of coure everyone will need to re-read the highway code to know.. but then we should all do that regular

[martin1810]

If roads are such dangerous places, why do they let pedestrians on them? Why not put fences along the sides of roads and fine pedestrians who cross roads other than in designated places. It generally works this way for railways and they have far less trains on them than we have cars on roads.

[gazza57]

What we need to focus on is getting rid of these nutcase local councils who are hell bent on preventing any traffic moving anywhere.
Whilst speed can be a contributory factor, that's all it is, a contributory factor, you'd think the way these people think that if you reduce the speed of every vehicle to a crawl you will have zero accidents.. WRONG!

Plenty of people tailgate at 20 or 30 mph and shunts occur because people are driving too close, that has diddly squat to do with speed, but more to do with poor driving which no camera will detect, the emphasis is wrong because the real intention is not to protect children or reduce accidents but a cynical ploy to swell revenue coffers, how many speed cameras do you see installed outside schools? answer??? very few!
They are all inexplicably placed on dual carriageways which mysteriously have a 30mph limits just to catch out the odd driver whilst letting poor driving go unpunished.
The hammer to crack a nut approach is all they know, anybody with common sense will tell you that having a 20mph limit permanently enforced even during school holidays and at 3am is just as dumb as 24 hour bus lanes when no buses are running, never let common sense get in the way of dogma.
Drivers would be perfectly capable of adhering to a variable 20mph speed limit similar to that on the M25, which could be introduced for two hours before and two hours after school start and finish.
The same goes for road works, limits are reduced quite rightly to protect personnel on road works but how many times do you see everybody gone home,cleared off the site yet the 30mph limit designed to protect personnel that aren't even there remains rigidly enforced.

It takes just a little planning and some basic common sense, same goes for bus lanes, imagine sitting in a queue of traffic jammed in a single lane when a perfectly good lane is laying there unused because it is a 24 hour bus lane... but it is 2am and there are no buses.
Members of the local constabulary had been known to sit tucked behind a van near the lane knowing that motorists would nip up there at 2am where they could present them with a ticket, please can anyone tell me how that is in the public interest?

Gazza57