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...yet she claims on Twitter to 'love cycling'.
Thankfully, this seemingly adsurd decision to increase speed limits was only made for single-carriageway rural roads, where they claim increasing speed limits for HGVs will "cut dangerous overtaking" but I'm yet to hear a convincing argument for it. Speed kills.
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where they claim increasing speed limits for HGVs will "cut dangerous overtaking" but I'm yet to hear a convincing argument for it.
It's not the HGVs overtaking other road users dangerously, it refers to cars performing dangerous overtaking to get past HGVs due to the mismatched speed limits for the two classes of vehicles on certain roads.
HGVs are limited to 40mph on single-carriageway NSL roads; cars 60mph. So streams of cars wanting to go at 60mph (as is their $DEITY given right) will all need to overtake the HGVs doing 40mph (ha!) and many of those overtakes will be piss poor.
The argument is that allowing HGVs to do 60mph along with cars on those roads mean that it greatly reduces the number of overtakes required.
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Speed kills.
Nonsense. If anything it save lives, cos taking it helps the HGV drivers stay awake.
Greenbank
bq
allegedly From the pen of Claire Perry MP, the Under Secretary of State for Transport, presumably arguing (poorly) for an increase in HGV speed limits.
faster lorries means less wear and tear because mind-science!
lels