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However, Ralph Smyth, senior transport campaigner for Campaign to Proect Rural England (CPRE), said the idea should be supported.
“Since the last speed limit guidance was published, deaths on rural roads have tragically increased from half of all road deaths to over two thirds. While the UK has made urban areas safer with the roll-out of 20 mph zones, we need to do something similar in the countryside.
Not in Portsmouth it hasn't!
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Kevin Clinton, head of road safety at the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), said: "Local authorities are well placed to decide what the most appropriate speed limits are for their roads because they know their areas, so we welcome this consultation.
Yep they know their areas so well, that half of them don't either drive or live in the area and they would prefer to listen to the whinging of two or three local old ladies than professional drivers like the Trafpol, who drive the roads regularly.
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"However, the key thing is to get the balance right between local authorities deciding their own speed limits and the maintenance of national consistency so in general the same sort of road environment has the same speed limit no matter where you are in the country."
That's an easy one to sort out, just make the NSL a 40MPH limit and please the majority of sunday drivers and every old lady in the country.