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Article #91Re: Speed Limits
From: Steve "daffy" Hunt
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:06
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:06
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Graham Toal (gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk) wrote: : :Take the motorways. They were designed for higher speeds than 70mph, : :but for a much lower traffic density than we have today. At night the : How do you know this? I think it is obvious that they were designed for lower traffic density; most of the motorway network was planned twenty or thirty years ago. There were far fewer vehicles on the road in those days. As far as the higher design speed is concerned, remember that initially the motorways were unrestricted (ie, no speed limit). I think the "experimental" 70mph limit was introduced in the early seventies. -- Steve Hunt steve@acorn.co.uk
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pipex!unipalm!uknet!acorn!steve From: steve@acorn.co.uk (Steve "daffy" Hunt) Newsgroups: uk.transport Subject: Re: Speed Limits Message-ID: <21157@acorn.co.uk> Date: 22 Jan 93 19:06:27 GMT References: <C189Iq.H7D@demon.co.uk> Organization: Acorn Computers Limited, Cambridge, UK Lines: 16 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]