On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:02:36 +0100, Neil Williams
wrote:
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:45:07 +0100, Bruce
wrote:

The idea was that local authorities could designate specific single
carriageway roads of a high standard of design and low accident
statistics as 60 mph roads. This would have required special signage
and, for the first time, allowed some roads to have speed limits
greater than the National Speed Limit.

The trouble with that is that none would have done - too high a risk
of bad publicity if there was an accident.


Apparently Buckinghamshire County Council (and presumably other
councils) had a list of roads that were proposed for the 60 mph limit
under the new legislation. Of course that list is now redundant. But
it would be interesting to know which roads would have been included.