Anyone else seen this plan to reduce the speed limit to 60 on the M1

Whoosh

 

Plus how much did it cost to expand that stretch (well most of it) from 3 lanes to 4 as well. This was meant to ease the congestion wasn't it?

 

Are you saying the traffic congestion on there now does not exist
Without it the area would now be gridlocked

More lanes equals more pollution
Dohhhhh

 

No it doesn't!

More lanes equals traffic flowing more quickly and easily, hence you should be able to travel quicker ....


Double Doh!

 

More traffic use it now than when it only had three lanes thus more pollution
Treble doh with lights on
More cars equals more fumes
Doh doh doh doh
Quadtastic

 

and your stats for this are ?

 

Tell you what I cannot be arsed to spend time searching for links
We have got a wind farm to run (offshore) currently running at base load 504 Mw
Emitting no pollution
But if you can prove me wrong and show that traffic has decreased over that area in the last three years I will donate 50 quid to a charity of your choice
Ok ?

 

Bit cranky this morning aren't we?

I asked you to prove that traffic had increased - not the other way round. Also if you are "at work" and now busy then why are you on the internet anyway.

Back to my original point I said how much did they spend on expanding that stretch of the M1 and that 4 lanes was meant to ease congestion, not get rid of the problem. I know the congestion still exists because I use it all the time.

OK?

 

Same point either way doh
On a ship going out to sea
Working
Eating
Showering
Reading
Watching b fast news
All good fun
No traffic jams in site
Blueberry jam on toast is the nearest xx

 

I have no clue what you are gibbering on about now. R U A WUM?

 

The only way it will work is if they police it properly. As you'll still get the people who will be doing 80mph and the people doing 70mph. It just creates a bigger gulf between the fastest and slowest moving vehicles in my opinion, making things more dangerous.

I live in Leeds and the M621 coming into Leeds which forks off from the M1, is 50mph, obviously you get people who ignore this which causes several accidents a year, especially in the stretch where the road goes around a blind corner then suddenly down to 2 lanes.

And when I say police it, I dont mean stick a police patrol car there once a month. Again, on the M621, there's a police patrol car parked just as the speed limit changes, about once a month. Last year I had a BMW driver speed past me at about 85mph just as the road changes to 50mph, only for him to cut across the front of me and then panic when he saw the police car. He jammed his brakes on and slowed all the way down to about 35mph almost instantly. I know people hate them, but average speed cameras are the best way of patrolling these reduced speed areas. Because if they do reduce the speed limit, they need to make sure that people actually stick to it

 

That's a load of rubbish it flows much better doing it in 25 mins every day at the moment, gone are the day's of crawling all the way from Haigh

 

That's the sound you won't be making.

As you slow down to properly breathe in the fumes.

 

I must have imagined it then all December....silly me.


Ps. Try it when there are other vehicles on the road like 7 till 8 on a morning

 

I'm definitely saving 20 mins a trip at the moment

Left s 710 this morning parked up for 735

 

Well I'm quite looking forward to a stress free 60mph run down the M1...I think I'll drive with my hands behind my head....

 

I'm sorry, but I travel to Leeds daily. The average speed cameras on there are an absolute joke. It now takes me around 50 minutes to get there, it used to take me 35. You get people doing 40mph. Then you get people lane swapping every 5 seconds, thus slowing others down, trying to overtake people with a margin of 2-3mph. so they sit at the side of another car for about a mile. It's an absolute joke. I only ever see about 6 or 7 workers there, too. We should be thinking of ways to make people travel faster and safer, not slower to reduce emissions. The emissions output changes from people travelling at 70 to say 60 will be immeasurable anyway. It's just another idea to keep these penpushing clowns in jobs. And, as per, the decent honest tax-paying individual like you and me, who has got business to go about, are punished and hindered. It makes me absolutely sick to the back teeth.

 

I can only speak from my own personal experience

Can't remember the last time I queued from Haigh which used to be a daily event

 

The M1 is now out of date. Anyone who uses it regular will see it is a glorified car park. To try and ease congestion at peak times, lights installed at some of the main junctions, extra lanes built back from junctions so stationary traffic can get out of way. Lorries overtaking other lorries and stick in middle lane until they have overtaken. Cars forced to take outside lane to make headway. Imagine the traffick clears a bit and you can make progress and you are forced to slow to 60mph. There will be some speeding fines being handed out, but there again this could be the reason for it. I agree with the guy who said it could be bulling the HS2 line.
That money needs spending on roads etc throughout the country because they are knackered