Proposed 80MPH Speed Limit Scrapped?

Again we see misguided pressure groups who are in a minority putting pressure on short term politicians. The last governments Labour MP's with an inbred chip on their shoulder about us rich people owning motor cars acquiesced to all the pressure groups and crackpots like transport 2000, and made war on the motorist, and ruined the transport infrastructure of this country. Here they go again quoting facts that can not be disputed, because the true facts will not be published to motoring public, facts like most accidents happen at 30 mph, and in many places accidents have dropped where speed cameras have been removed, and accidents involving at fault pedestrians who are hit by a vehicle are massaged to look bad for the motorist. Their oft quoted “ Speed Kills “ is a misleading smokscreen, as only inappropriate speed kills. The 70 mph Max was brought in over 40 years age to save fuel in the fuel crisis, and never rescinded, what politicians do not know is that modern vehicles use a ratio of more air to fuel the faster they go. Having driven in excess of 100.000 miles a year until retirement I have seen lots of daft things and bad driving on motorways, much due to a lack of motorway awareness and driving skill, but this is just a matter of education, and motorway driving instructional lessons should be part of the learning process, and of the driving test. What I am sure of is for all the vehicles driven on our motorways plus all miles driven, our roads must be among the safest in the world. Unfortunately this government is no friendlier to the motorist as the last Labour one, and Cameron is as trustworthy as a snake oil salesman.

Obviously the people who want the speed limit brought down or to remain the same do not drive for a living, they would appear to be the people that only come onto motorways at odd times and probably sit in the 2nd and 3rd lane at between 50 and 70 mph and adopt that i'm at the legal limit and no one else is getting buy me attitude, which is unfortuately all to common these days. We should concentrating on educating these idiots as to the correct use of lanes on motorways, this would lead to all lanes being used properly, and in turn making the motorways less congested and much safer places. And if you speed nimbies don't want to do 75/80mph, then please stay out of the outside lane to allow those of us that need to be somewhere, to enable us to earn a living. I drive approx 35k miles per year, and most days after using a combination of M25/A1M/A Roads and roads in and around London / Home Counties, and only manage to average between 15 - 23mph all day. End of rant!!!

70/80 mph does not seem fast when you are in the car but if you stand by the roadside you get a much better impression of just how fast it is. Similarily, if you see a chunk of timber or something similar fall off the back of a lorry at speed it really brings home how fast you are travelling.When the limits are reduced for long sections of roadworks I actually have found it quite relaxing and how much difference does it really make to journey times? What would really improve motorway travel would be to ban speed limited lorries from trying to overtake each other......and whilst I'm pontificating,why can't "the Daves" scrap the road tax and put it all on fuel. That way we would contribute according to miles travelled and there would be more incentive to use public transport.

Bring the limit down to 50 and ban overtaking. Drivers are not capable of driving (except for me, of course.

Thank goodness! Common sense has prevailed. All you dangerous speed merchants,understand this:more speed, more accidents. Will you never understand?