UK: Anti Car Extremists Drive Speed Limit Proposals

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"Driving Skills to be Destroyed to Suit Eco Agenda

Government plans to reduce all rural single carriageway speed limits to 50mph and enforce them with average speed cameras were condemned today by the Association of British Drivers as a "speed bully" policy which signals the end of driving excellence in Britain.

Environmentalists, and others who believe that driving is "anti social at any speed", have long campaigned for lower limits - in 1995 Friends of the Earth said:

"speed limits should be made very low and rigidly enforced to take all the glamour out of motoring"

"This is nothing to do with road safety", said the ABDs Nigel Humphries. "Anyone can see that hazards vary along rural roads, and so speeds must vary with them. A blanket 50 mph speed limit does not recognize that roads vary enormously in character and that a limit as low as 50 is totally unnecessary on many rural roads"."

http://www.abd.org.uk/pr/655.htm