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50Mph On Motorways?
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data recently obtained from the lengthy 50mph roadworks section of the M1 near Sheffield demonstrates the lower speeds significantly affect air quality for the better.
what does it for you - cleaner air but higher transport costs for business? or is the ability of business to manage its own transport affairs more important in your book?
data recently obtained from the lengthy 50mph roadworks section of the M1 near Sheffield demonstrates the lower speeds significantly affect air quality for the better.
what does it for you - cleaner air but higher transport costs for business? or is the ability of business to manage its own transport affairs more important in your book?
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Personally I would doubt this data, I suspect it has been very selective to prove a point (like usual).
Cars these days are very efficient, the wife's new SLK is just 'ticking over' at 70-80 in 7th gear.
If they want to improve road quality they need to get all the foreign diesel lorries off the road (that pay nothing for the use) and onto rail.
Yet more nonsense from London bound metropolitan elite trying to rule our lives.
Cars these days are very efficient, the wife's new SLK is just 'ticking over' at 70-80 in 7th gear.
If they want to improve road quality they need to get all the foreign diesel lorries off the road (that pay nothing for the use) and onto rail.
Yet more nonsense from London bound metropolitan elite trying to rule our lives.
The way to combat pollution is to find cleaner sources of concentrated power, not to ensure progress on folks' journey is excruciatingly slow. Working towards fewer people = fewer cars = less traffic = less pollution would help too. There seems to be a group of folk who won't be happy until all motorised vehicles move behind a guy walking in front waving a red flag.
China rebuilds a Very Large Sink hole in a week! yes a week, employ contractors from China would solve the problems of Motorway Roadworks, the old tarmac should be lifted, screened, reused, re surfaced as they go along, would that happen? can it happen? Ha Ha Ha Ha, this is the UK, could not organize a izz up in a brewery.
If you mean the sinkhole in Japan, TWR, it's collapsed again
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I too doubt this data.
Lorries are already governed to a maximum of 56, but a high percentage are set lower than that at 50 or 52 already. Unless the speed limiters are reset to 50, most will continue at their current speeds.
If you want to do something drastic to reduce air pollution, change the tax rules so that car drivers stop buying diesels.
Lorries are already governed to a maximum of 56, but a high percentage are set lower than that at 50 or 52 already. Unless the speed limiters are reset to 50, most will continue at their current speeds.
If you want to do something drastic to reduce air pollution, change the tax rules so that car drivers stop buying diesels.
The town where I live has a 20mph spped limit on every road except for the main road, the A5. No-one, including myself, sticks to this limit. One of the main reasons is that my van is not designed to drive at 20mph. It is VERY dificult to find the correct gear. It is either over-revving or almost stalling...
experts have shown that not going anywhere ever at any speed will significantly improve air quality too! What a load of Horse droppings. Motorway speed limits should be rasied to 90mph and we should save a lot of fuel by having pass on either side rather than this ridiculous leap frog approach we have.
My opinion on pollution,
Stop the money saving quick jobs on Roads,
Make it compulsory that every car / motor bike gets serviced at least twice an year,
HGVs / Buses get regular servicing due to their mileage,
The EU Regulations on HGVs are 50mph, this causes unnecessary gear changing for the Power in the things, (know from personal experience)It should be set at 60mph, this lessons gear changing, might not go down with a lot of people but it stops "Bunching nose to tail of HGVs),
Stop the money saving quick jobs on Roads,
Make it compulsory that every car / motor bike gets serviced at least twice an year,
HGVs / Buses get regular servicing due to their mileage,
The EU Regulations on HGVs are 50mph, this causes unnecessary gear changing for the Power in the things, (know from personal experience)It should be set at 60mph, this lessons gear changing, might not go down with a lot of people but it stops "Bunching nose to tail of HGVs),
//If they want to improve road quality they need to get all the foreign diesel lorries off the road (that pay nothing for the use) and onto rail.//
trucks these days (regardless of origin) are also efficient - so efficient that only bulk commodities or trainloads from port to port are commercially viable by rail. rail freight is in a bad place, both major players are shedding staff wholesale and it would only need 60T trucks to be allowed on UK roads to see it off altogether (the environmental argument on its own would not be sufficient). more than 90% of all transported goods goes by truck, and that will either continue or rise for the forseeable.
trucks these days (regardless of origin) are also efficient - so efficient that only bulk commodities or trainloads from port to port are commercially viable by rail. rail freight is in a bad place, both major players are shedding staff wholesale and it would only need 60T trucks to be allowed on UK roads to see it off altogether (the environmental argument on its own would not be sufficient). more than 90% of all transported goods goes by truck, and that will either continue or rise for the forseeable.
A company in the East side of the UK tried the 60ft HGVs Mushroom, can not remember the Comp but the were from E.Anglia, the thing was escorted back to their yard by the police, regards Foreign HGVs, or anything on wheels that come into this country should pay, the Taco reading of the HGV should be taken on the port of Entry, when returning to the port of Exit be calculated & the cost given, £50 Per Day, Yes it could be done.
If freight was forced onto rail (by foreigners having to pay proper fees) it would not be in a bad place.
This discussion is about pollution, why should the majority suffer so foreign companies can make a profit.
Trucks may well be more efficient than they were but they are diesel and highly polluting even with Cats etc.
Basically there are many things that could be done before reducing the speed limit, but then I suspect that this is what it is really what they are after. The car hating Islingont metropolitan elite wanting a red flag as suggested above.
This discussion is about pollution, why should the majority suffer so foreign companies can make a profit.
Trucks may well be more efficient than they were but they are diesel and highly polluting even with Cats etc.
Basically there are many things that could be done before reducing the speed limit, but then I suspect that this is what it is really what they are after. The car hating Islingont metropolitan elite wanting a red flag as suggested above.
Young, apart from the cost of rail Transport it's the time it takes the goods to get to it's final destination, the haulage firm I use to work for was transporting Cement to a place called Coatbridge Nr Motherwell Scotland, it was loaded in our town then railed to Preston then on to Glasgow then shunted to the Cement works up there, although the Amount was large it still toke 2/3 Days to get there, untill the rail get's it act together it will not happen.
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