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50mph Limit Rejected

Lincolnshire says no to speed limit reduction

Will other counties reject the guidelines?
Will other counties reject the guidelines?
Government guidelines to lower speed limits to 50mph have been rejected in Lincolnshire, it has been reported.

The county is understood to have stood up to the Government over plans to lower limits on C-class roads to 50mph even where there is a low or non-existent accident record.

Highways officers and councillors from Lincolnshire County Council rejected a new Government policy which would cut speed limits on thousands of miles of the county's roads, reported the Lincolnshire Echo.

The council is now reviewing all limits on A and B roads.

At a meeting of the highways policy development group yesterday, the council's assistant director for highways and traffic, Paul Coathup, said he could not support the policy in relation to C and unclassified roads.

‘You'd be going out into the Wolds and putting posts down everywhere telling people they cannot drive more than 50mph when they cannot drive more than 35 or 40mph anyway. If they went any faster they would come off the road,’ he said.

However it is feared the Government may still force Lincolnshire to drop limits on all rural roads from 60mph to 50mph.

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What next - an SCP telling us it's all about profit.

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