Brexit and the waning days of the United Kingdom

[Tamas]

I am sure its beneficial because the slower you go the sooner you can stop, but gawd it's annoying to keep the car under 20mph.

[Grey Fox]

My town lowered almost every street (over 90% of them) by 10kmh. 50 streets became 40, 40 became 30, etc.

The 50 to 40 is the most annoying one. Going 40 on long straight wide streets is excruatingly slow.

[Tamas]

My town lowered almost every street (over 90% of them) by 10kmh. 50 streets became 40, 40 became 30, etc.

The 50 to 40 is the most annoying one. Going 40 on long straight wide streets is excruatingly slow.

In Slough there is a long, straight 2x2 lanes (with directions separated by barriers) main road coming right off the motorway with the occasional traffic lights. It has a 30mph limit. In light/medium traffic you have to break it and go closer to 40 to avoid danger to yourself and others as nobody bothers with the limit.

[Valmy]

Maybe Welsh roads are just really bad?

[Josquius]

In Lausanne they've done something weird where roads have a standard 50kph speed limit during regular hours but then in the wee hours of the night between 22 and 6 this drops to 30.
I'm not sure what I think about this.

We've a section of road near here outside a large school. It used to have one of those 20 when the lights flash systems but now is a flat 20.
People tend not to obey it.
I recall one awesome occasion where I followed the speed limit and some idiot came up right behind me his engine roaring to try and get me to speed up.

Overall I get how it is annoying to suddenly be going slower than normal... but if it was normal I expect people would get used to this slower speed. And the data speaks for itself on the benefits that may not be immediately tangible.