I also find it funny that most people on here seem to think they are a good driver just because they drive an old car?
True. Ask most people how they would rate themselves as a driver on a scale of well below average, below average, average, above average and well above average and most people will say above average which is statistically impossible.
I personally don't think we will ever see speed limits on motorways being increased to 80. My dad said every so often they come up with this idea and within a year or so the idea is scrapped.
I also don't see them changing the speed limits on rural roads to 40 mph and towns to 20 mph. Think of the number of speed limit signs they would have to change and road markings they would have to change, along with the extra police to enforce it. All of this will cost tax payers money, which will annoy people (already has done) forcing more people to cut back and cheat taxes etc to be abel to afford to live. It will cost businesses loads, putting some out of businesses which will eventually cost tax payers more money which they do not have. Try adding the cost onto the motorist and it will cause strikes and more people not to bother paying road tax and hence insurance. Mean while we are in a recession and our country is trying to reduce its debt, not increase it by spending large amounts of money on changing the road network unnecessarily.
Our road network works (kind of). The people who drive dangerously and recklessly will continue to do so, whether or not the speed limits are changed.
As for variable speed limits on the motorways they do work. They do keep it moving when its busier. I do however hate the average speed cameras. They are not needed just the variable speed limit. You end up spending more time looking at your speedo instead of the road. Worse still you hit 50 mph zones due to road works when nobody is working on them because it is 2 o'clock in the morning (or any other time during the day).
I reckon they should include more country lane driving in the driving tests. You can always tell the people who live out in the country side and the ones that don't by the way they drive. Country folk look a head a lot more and will pull into gateways etc earlier or match their speed so that they pass at the wide points and save time. People who aren't always try and pass you at the most inconvenient places. I am for ever reversing back to let people past as its quicker than trying to struggle past them at the narrow points (even done it once with a trailer). Every so often we get people who fall in the ditches round my roads when they try and pass people at really narrow places. The look on the car's owners as the farmers drag them out and the tow ropes bend their front bumpers. Serves them right. A change in the speed limit won't solve this just better driver training.
