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- From: d_smith@csd.uwe.ac.uk (Dylan Smith)
- Newsgroups: uk.transport
- Subject: Re: Speed Limits
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.162345.28953@csd.uwe.ac.uk>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 16:23:45 GMT
- References: <C189Iq.H7D@demon.co.uk> <21157@acorn.co.uk>
- Organization: University of the West of England, Bristol
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- In article <21157@acorn.co.uk> steve@acorn.co.uk (Steve "daffy" Hunt) writes:
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- >As far as the higher design speed is concerned, remember that
- >initially the motorways were unrestricted (ie, no speed limit). I
- >think the "experimental" 70mph limit was introduced in the early
- >seventies.
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- I think it was in fact introduced during one of the oil crises to
- reduce fuel consumption.
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