Just what we need, another stupid unenforcable law

I read in today's papers, and hear on the news, that the Government has decided to reduce the speed limit on country roads to 50mph from 60mph.

Now, as you'll see from the name of this blog, I live in North Norfolk, a place crisscrossed by roads that are not just rural, but in many places only wide enough for a single car with passing places, so fools doing 60mph along these roads would be considered not just fool, but a maniac who could easily cause a fatal crash.

Alongside these B and C class roads, we have the local A roads, these are exclusively single carriageway, In my area, I have the A140 and the A149, in the last 5 to 8 years many sections of these roads have had their speed limit cut as they go through villages, in some places to 50mph, in others to 40mph and in a couple of places, all the way down to 20mph,

What effect does this have on the drivers traversing these areas? They get utterly frustrated. Not so much by the changes in the limit itself, but by the behavior of some of the drivers. The first result of a drop in the speed limit as you are travelling along is the "Bunching up" of traffic. generally, at 60mph almost all drivers keep to a sensible distance from the vehicle in front, go down to 50 and that gap between cars decreases dramatically, 40mph is even worse, at this point, the gap is generally too small to avoid accidents, once you pass through these areas, people speed up to 60 and the traffic spreads out to safe distances.

So, we have the comparison between single track roads and single carriageway roads, in the time I've lived in North Norfolk, over 30 years, how many accidents have I seen on the single track roads? Two, both of which I was involved in, both caused by someone underestimating the width of their car (not me I hasten to add). On the single carriageway roads, I have seen many more accidents on the A roads, most of which seem to have been caused by cars joining the main road, obviously not doing 60, but pulling out in front of traffic that may be. That isn't a misjudgement on part of the driver on the main road, but of the driver joining it.

So now we'll have all drivers bunching up and getting frustrated as this pathetic government tries to make every one of us a criminal. What will that lead to? More accidents, more Road Rage, more frustration.

This government does not understand the country, does not understand anyone who would live outside their cities, and, if you are potentially a voter for any party other than Nu Labour (and EVERYONE who lives in the country is likely to vote against them) then you will suffer. You will suffer if only by the passing of laws that cannot be enforced, even if they tried to enforce a 50mph limit, on the country roads, you'ld get cars being chased by Police cars that are incapable of goes at any sort of speed. Crackers, absolutely crackers