As traffic flow arguments abound
Varied and interesting comments appear in the Sunday newspaper comment columns today, especially on the subject of Motorway speed limits. A lot of them ill-informed so it appears, but the legal limits on motorways mean little till you get nobbled. Cars frequently sail past at 80+mph on most motorways, assuming of course, they don't get nicked for indecision on metrication.
Is it mph or kph and who decides Whitehall or Brussels?
If we need to speed up traffic flows, something must be done about traffic lights. How much fuel is wasted there? Part time lights and filtering on a red would I reckon, save a fair few Supertanker dockings at the oil terminals.
We don't seem to have any statesmen of vision these days. We’re surrounded by a shower of wannabes with peripheral blinkers and an army of pen pushers. Seven million odd at the last count, doing everything in their power to protect their jobs and rile the public at large. With their officious dictat on wheelie bins, speed cameras, road humps, bus lanes, pinch points, cycle tracks to nowhere and any other arcane instrument of fiscal torture, they can conjure up.
We're suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous electoral misfortune at the hands of a population denied their say in the only referenda that matters. Whilst the Redtops today are saying speed limits are to be lowered to save fuel. Seems to me the left hand does not know what’s what. In fact it could be we’re being ruled by an army of one armed bandits.
Watch this space, I’ll be back!
Tom.
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