80 Miles Per Hour on British motorways?

[highlandsflyer]

Man, you were lucky you were doing 110, if you had been doing 80 you might never have cleared the logs!

A timely reminder that speeding belongs on the track not on the public highway.

Except when it is me of course, the best driver in the world.

 

[saltyman]

yeah, the cops knew i was speeding but were just amazed id kept it on 4 wheels while it span, otherwise id be dead :?

they also said the fact it was a strong car helped.

gave me a wake up call.......

 

[grahame]

An interesting point raised by a Civil Engineer in a letter to The Times today - the motorway network was designed around a maximum speed of 70mph. So corner radii, cambers, sightlines, entry and exit gradients, etc will not be suitable for 80mph plus speeds.

 

[highlandsflyer]

Och, I assumed you were doing a hill climb or some such event. Did not realise you were being the average scooby driver!

We all get it pear shaped now and then.

I spun a Beetle at eighty after the top came off a bottle of mineral water.

Gave my lass a fair fright as she had been sleeping.

Amazing how fast it all goes wrong.

Worse on the bikes because you usually can do not one thing about it once you are aware of it.

 

[highlandsflyer]

An interesting point raised by a Civil Engineer in a letter to The Times today - the motorway network was designed around a maximum speed of 70mph. So corner radii, cambers, sightlines, entry and exit gradients, etc will not be suitable for 80mph plus speeds.

I totally agree, which is the point I was getting at in a previous post that if they universally set it at 80 they would need to run around signposting all the sections that were not safe, with margins, for 80.

A complete headache, and short of rebuilding the entire network there is no other way around that issue.

I like the idea of leaving things as they are, they turn a blind eye where speeds are well above the limit but the rate of accidents suggest there is no problem associated with it.

We really don't need to send a message out that speed is good.

What they need to be looking at is controlling traffic in the urban areas more strictly, and I think for that more automation is required.

 

[Supratada]

An interesting point raised by a Civil Engineer in a letter to The Times today - the motorway network was designed around a maximum speed of 70mph. So corner radii, cambers, sightlines, entry and exit gradients, etc will not be suitable for 80mph plus speeds.

Weeelllll, he says that, but I used to drive at 90-95ish most places on motorways and DCs and never had any problems with bends and sightlines. Its seems a little short sighted, nay dangerous, to design an entire road network where +10mph makes the difference between safety and chaos.

Best record, Dartford to Selby in 2 hours 30 minutes. Stressful, I would not recommend it.

 

[highlandsflyer]

You miss the point.

Whenever you design anything, you design in a margin.

 

[gibbleking]

Life would be so much better if we were all forced to use horse and cart...


Ambulances are exempt from my happy little dream world fantasy of life slowing down and being forced to breath clean air again.....

 

[David B]

Life would be so much better if we were all forced to use horse and cart...


Ambulances are exempt from my happy little dream world fantasy of life slowing down and being forced to breath clean air again.....

Not sure about the clean air aspect with all of those horses about. Wasn't it once reckoned that without the coming of the Underground, the streets of late-Victorian London would have been knee-deep in poo due to all the horse-drawn buses, hansom cabs, etc.?

David

 

[jamabikes]

surely though the roads were designed with 70mph for cars of the time? 70 mph for a 60/70's car was/is a lot more hairy than in a modern car non?