New advice to councils to cut the speed limit on roads with accident blackspots is being published by the government. Ministers want the speed limit of 60mph on selected main roads in rural areas lowered to 50mph. They are advising local authorities to introduce gradually 20mph limits in all residential areas and near schools. The government says more ambitious targets are needed for reducing deaths as it enters the final year of its decade-long road safety strategy. More than 32,000 people have died on British roads in the past 10 years but the country’s record has improved. The government’s target of cutting deaths and serious injuries by 40% by the end of 2010 has already been met but ministers are planning more ambitious goals. On Wednesday they will issue guidance to councils urging speed limits of 50mph, rather than 60mph, along the entire length of any rural single-carriageway A road with a history of accidents. More
(AD Remarks ~ There are many roads that speed limits ideally need to be lower, and enforced to help road safety. Perhaps on some of our better motorways, the speed limits could be higher, when situations allow as well)
Dec 202009
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