Motorways Trial New Speed Limit As Nearly Half Exceed 70 MPH

loadswine · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 30, 2006 Posts: 1

Its not the speed that is the problem on motorways, but the way people behave. Lane discipline is simply appalling and I think this causes more problems than speeding. I wonder how many of the people who complain about excessive speed are actually the ones sitting in that middle lane passing nothing!

My real worry on a higher speed limit are cars out there, not properly maintained as money gets ever tighter. Hopefully the monstrous cost of fuel will slow those folks down. I doubt if I'd want to go much faster than the current limit as fuel is just so expensive.

DennisN · Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 9:31 am Post subject:

My local garage diesel price is currently £144.9. From my records, 28th March 2007 it was 91.9p.

The only answer for me is to hold back on my speed. But I wonder how many of today's speed merchants understand what it's costing them?
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The REAL meaning of 80-MPH

http://www.mostwatchedtoday.com/the-real-meaning-of-mph/ Very Happy

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aj2052 · Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 1:09 am Post subject:

Modern cars dont seem to be designed to get the best for consumption purposes, my previous car had both instant and average mpg on different screen settings tried getting best results using instant reading but just went down to silly figures having to avoid creating a jam behind me, found got better mpg by ignore readings, now current car as both instant and average on same screen and the speedo only shows increments in 5 mile segments so cannot really read an accurate speed, mpg instant figures vary so widely between 7mpg and 99 mpg depending on which shoes you are wearing to which way the wind is blowing it hardly gives me enough time to look out of the window to see where i am, only got 250 miles on the clock yet so must learn not to look at the display.
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Kremmen · Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 6:37 am Post subject:

I read an article that stated that at 70mph your using 10% more fuel to cover the same distance as when doing 60mph.

For the last few weeks I've been sitting in with the trucks on the M25 doing circa 56 to 60 mph and my weekly mpg has risen from just under 38mpg to just over 42mpg.

I only do 10 miles on the motorway each way so it's only losing me a few minutes. I'm also finding it far more relaxing just poodling along.

I top up every week and It's costing me less now than a few months ago even though prices have risen Smile

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