Welsh Motoring Writers
  • Home
  • About us
  • News
  • Car Reviews
  • Blogs
  • Contact
  • Members
  • Blog

80mph is never good for the economy

12/10/2011

0 Comments

 
Picture
_"Increasing the speed limit on motorways from 70 to 80 miles per hour for cars, light vans and motorcycles could provide hundreds of millions of pounds of benefits for the economy," so said then Transport Secretary Philip Hammond on the plan to increase the national speed limit.

In saying so, he is either being naive or disingenuous, although to be fair, selling the plan at a Tory Party conference as 'greater harmonisation with our European neighbours' would have been rather more difficult.

Polls show that many of us admit to breaking the speed limit on the motorway, and regard 80mph as a 'safe' and comfortable speed in the UK. Some other European countries have their speed limits set at around that limit.

Read More
0 Comments

    Blog Archives

    November 2022
    September 2021
    August 2019
    September 2018
    August 2018
    January 2018
    October 2017
    January 2017
    July 2016
    June 2016
    March 2016
    November 2015
    May 2015
    January 2015
    October 2014
    December 2013
    October 2013
    December 2012
    August 2012
    July 2012
    January 2012
    December 2011
    October 2011
    July 2011
    April 2011
    November 2010
    October 2010
    September 2010
    July 2010
    June 2010
    July 2009

    RSS Feed

© WELSH MOTORING WRITERS 2023