Consultation to lower speed limits

Someone sent me this, I thinks it's worth a minuteb of all our time.

Marco

Dear All

The Department for Transport is consulting on its vision to make Britain's roads the
safest in the world. But pro-speed and motoring groups have succeeded in
getting their members to flood the consultation with calls to oppose lower
speed limits. Labour has back-pedalled on a reduction of the national speed limit,
while the Conservatives are calling for speed limits for lorries to
be raised, on the basis that most break the law already.

If you have just a minute before 14 July, the day the consultation ends,
please click on the link below and add your voice for a safer way:
http://tiny. cc/saferway

WHY SHOULD I BOTHER?

• Widespread public support for lower speed limits risks being drowned out by
  a vocal lobby: this is one consultation where your views really can make a
  difference.
  
• Getting lower speed limits in rural and urban areas will not just make
  everyone safer, it will encourage physically active travel like walking and
  cycling, reducing obesity and congestion while improving quality of life.
  
• Reducing speed limits has been identified by the Climate Change Committee as
  one of the best 'quick wins' for the urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas
  emissions.
  
  

WHY FOCUS ON SPEED LIMITS?
Reducing speed limits is the single most important but also controversial proposal. But there are other important things, such as changing the law to better protect vulnerable road users and moving away from a 'one size fits all' approach to road and street design to one that emphasises sense of place, which are being called for.

WHO'S BEHIND THIS CALL OUT?
The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) is one of the country's oldest
environmental groups and its president is author Bill Bryson. CPRE has long called for lower speed limits, less signage clutter and safer roads that are less intimidating for those on foot, cycle, horseback or using mobility aids. CPRE has been working closely with a wide range of environmental, transport and health groups. It is part of the Take Action on Active Travel alliance that now includes over 100 organisations calling, amongst other things, for lower speed limits:
www.adsph.org. uk/downloads/ policies/ Takeaction onactive travel_2009. pdf

CPRE has carried out a detailed analysis of the consultation and how road
safety plans, including lower speed limits work in other countries, in
particular the Netherlands, before coming up with proposals:
www.cpre.org. uk/campaigns/ transport/ rural-transport/ safer-roads

WHAT ELSE CAN I DO

• Contact your MP and ask them to respond to the consultation and ask for
  lower speed limits, roads that people feel to walk and cycle on, fairer laws
  on traffic collisions to protect vulnerable road users better and less signage
  clutter.
  
• Get your friends, family and colleagues to respond by forwarding this widely
  
• Get groups you are involved with to sign up to Take Action on Active Travel
  
• Take part in the Webchat with the Road Safety Minister on 9 July by putting in questions at:
  http://www.webchat. pm.gov.uk/ Default.aspx? webchatID= 87
  

done - cheers

Odd one this, quite in favour of lower speed limits in certain areas, but believe the 70mph limit on the major roads to be an anachronism.

I suspect therefore that as I fall into two camps I will not find a welcome in either.

With Dammit, speed should be lower on most roads, especially inner city, but not on dual carriageway/motorway. (Actually motorway speed limit seems to be irrelevant anyway, doesn't seem to be enforced at all).

Done, nice one fella.

well found--silent voices we dont hear in motoring lobby maintain a poor status quo,
done this and will pass on.

(Actually motorway speed limit seems to be irrelevant anyway, doesn't seem to be enforced at all).

coughs
I beg to differ...
Anyone want an R1?

get a few points recently?

Bump

Here is some information from the DfT around setting speed local limits
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/setting-local-speed-limits

and appraising speed limits
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/speed-limit-appraisal-tool

Not sure where to put this, so perhaps here:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/london-buses-will-be-unable-to-break-speed-limit-in-drive-to-improve-road-safety-9613920.html

^ Article was proceeding well until... "It can be operated either voluntary or if you take it to the extreme then the speed of the vehicle can be set like cruise control and overridden only in case of emergency. There’s no decision on this yet but we will probably go for the voluntary system to allow the driver to retain full control of the vehicle."

WTF is the point in a voluntary limit for crying out loud?! Is there some kind of internal rule that compels TFL to half-arse every good thing they do?

You have a crash and the limiter was off, then it points toward your culpability- maybe?

Given general bus company history of maintaining video footage from their own cameras in driver vs. cyclist incidents, I would be dubious of their ability to maintain black box data in the same circumstances.

We should get some Russian Seperatists on the case.

^Too soon?