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National speed management review

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  • Started 4 weeks ago by Morningsider
  • Latest reply from mcairney

  1. Morningsider
    Member

    Transport Scotland has launched a consultation on its National speed management review. This floats two possible changes to speed limits on single carriageway roads subject to the 60mph national limit.

    1. Reduce the speed limit for general traffic from 60mph to 50mph.
    2. Increase the HGV speed limit from 40mph to 50mph.

    It also proposes changing the dual carriageway HGV speed limit from 50mph to 60mph.

    If I was a betting type, I would say there was reasonable odds on the eventual outcome being HGV speed limits increasing while those for general traffic stay the same. I don't see the current SNP administration ignoring siren calls from the usual suspects about "the impact on the economy" from lowering the limit, especially in the run up to the 2026 election.

    Hopefully I'm wrong.

    Posted 4 weeks ago #

  2. gembo
    Member

    There was HGV madness in the Cowgate the other night. One going one way and another going the other - the latter turned up the taxi street to the royal Mile, feck knows how it then got out. The other which was Dutch passed me with inches of tolerance.

    @morningsider has predicted the outcome. Read it and weep.

    Posted 4 weeks ago #

  3. neddie
    Member

    Anyone who proposes and succeeds in raising a speed limit, be it HGVs or otherwise, will have blood on their hands

    Posted 4 weeks ago #

  4. mcairney
    Member

    There's 2 factors in play here:

    1. Aligning the speed limits between cars and HGVs should reduce the amount of risky overtakes/MGIFs.

    2. The proposed solution of increasing the speed limit of the largest, heaviest, least manouevrable vehicle is objectively crazy. Even taking the increase in kinetic energy in the event of a collision won't it also increase emissions and fuel consumption??

    Also RE: point 1 the sooner we have mandatory GPS-based speed limiters on vehicles the better, if only to eliminate all the 'passive' speeding +tailgating being done by all those 'above average' drivers out there.

    Posted 4 weeks ago #

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