On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 18:25:55 +0000, dennis@home wrote:

There are many reasons for a speed limit and safety may be one of them.

No, safety is the only one. Of course, the safety in question is not only
that of car occupants, but that of pedestrians and people using other
modes of transport.

Just because you think it shouldn't be that speed limit doesn't mean
there are no good reasons for it to be there.

When the default urban limit hits the 80th anniversary and the default
dual-carriageway limit the 40th anniversary next year, followed by the
the default extra-urban limit the 50th anniversary in 2015 - without any
review at all in that time, despite massively different road conditions -
it's kinda difficult sometimes to agree with that argument.

ESPECIALLY when so many roads are having politically lowered limits,
apparently shotgun-style.