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SPEED limits are set to be cut on dozens of roads throughout Lancashire.

The Lancashire Telegraph can reveal the findings of a two-year study of all of the county’s 130 A and B roads, which recommends new speed limits for 84 stretches.

In East Lancashire, 28 changes will be made on 18 roads, most of which link the area’s towns, over the next two years.

As well as the lower speed limits, the £600,000 project will also see hundreds of new signs put up and new road layouts and markings in the areas affected.

Yesterday the government announced plans to reduce the speed limit on most rural roads from 60 miles per hour to 50 except where councils can prove it is not necessary.

Lancashire County Council’s study, which is independent of the government action, goes much further with stretches of some 60 mile per hour roads being cut to 40.

Other roads are having their speed limit reduced from 50 and 40 miles per hour to just 30.

Lancashire’s raft of measures has been welcomed by MPs and motoring experts who say they will reduce the number of people killed on the county’s rural roads.

But they also warned the tighter limits might confuse some drivers and an opposition politician claimed the changes did not go far enough.

The Lancashire Telegraph can reveal the findings of a two-year study of all of the county’s 130 A and B roads, which recommends new speed limits for 84 stretches.