30mph trials to ease M42 delays; CITY ROAD SAFETY OFFICER BACKS VARIABLE...

Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  November 21, 2001 ;     279 words ......KRYSIA DIVER PROPOSALS to cut speed limits to as low as 30mph along busy...reduce congestion by slashing speed limits at busy times on the worst...sections of the network. Variable speed limits have been in force on the M25...

Raise Those Speed Limits (Cont'd)

The Washington Post;  December 14, 1996 ;     344 words ......concerning the lack of compliance with speed limits {Dec. 3 and Dec. 8}. These letters complain...better understanding of travel speeds and speed limits on various types of roads. This nationwide...observed that driver compliance with speed limits is poor. The study's conclusions ...

Speed limits

The Press;  October 6, 2004 ;     60 words ...Speed limits are under scrutiny in the Waimakariri District. Responsibility for setting speed limits has been handed to councils by the Government...years. The district council has adopted a Speed Limits Bylaw, and a series of amendments will...

SPEED LIMITS TO BE RAISED; Motorists 'can go faster on safe London roads'.

The Evening Standard (London, England);  August 7, 2006 ;     368 words ......PAUL WAUGH A MASSIVE overhaul of road speed limits will be announced tomorrow. The biggest...will tell all councils to look again at speed limits on their roads and implement new ones by 2011. He said: Realistic and consistent speed limits help to keep traffic moving freely and...

EDITORIAL: A year of higher speeds: It's too soon to race to conclusions...

News-Sentinel (Fort Wayne, IN);  July 19, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Jul. 19--In the first year of 70-mph speed limits on some stretches of Indiana's interstates...into slaughterhouses! Don't break any speed limits racing to that conclusion; the data...Perhaps we and other advocates of higher speed limits were wrong, and the higher speed ...

As speeds rise, so do fatalities; Increases "coincide with the new speed...

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  March 2, 1999 ;     700+ words ......injuries and more crashes on roads whose speed limits were raised in July 1997, the Department...statistical study of the impact of the higher speed limits in Minnesota. Comparing the six years...On freeways and expressways, where speed limits were raised from 55 miles per hour or...

REALISTIC SPEED LIMITS ARE THE SAFEST ONES; WHAT SPEED IS...

The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC);  November 26, 1997 ;     514 words ......PETERS/ Knight-Ridder/Tribune Reasonable speed limits are in everyone's best interests. The...faster-moving traffic. Opponents claim higher speed limits create motorized mayhem, but the facts...declining irrespective of changes in posted speed limits. States that raised speed ...

WALES: Speed limits shake-up planned for roads.(News)

Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  June 10, 2008 ;     222 words ...SPEED limits outside schools across Wales are to...will be issued on the setting of local speed limits following a consultation, the Deputy...the opportunity to debate appropriate speed limits for different roads. The 12-week consultation...

LEGISLATIVE PREVIEW; SPEED LIMITS Higher speed limits seem to be on the...

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  January 14, 1996 ;     595 words ...The effort to raise speed limits in Minnesota may be the most publicly...those drivers are exceeding posted speed limits, according to traffic studies...this week that would authorize speed limits of: - 70 mph on rural interstates...

Speed limits: A year later; Despite higher limits, drivers hold steady...

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  July 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ...Higher speed limits aren't creating more lead feet. Today marks one year since speed limits were raised on most Minnesota interstates...of the posted speeds. Now that the legal speed limits have caught up to the pace people have been...

COUNCIL TO RAISE SPEED LIMITS ON PARTS OF I-75, I-71 AND I-275.(NEWS)

The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH);  June 13, 1996 ;     214 words ......Cincinnati is expected to adopt higher speed limits on three freeways running through...new ordinances that would raise the speed limits 5 to 10 mph on portions of I-75, I-74 and I-275. Speed limits would go from 50 to 55 mph on I-75...

Need to rationalise speed limits on the highways

New Straits Times;  November 13, 2002 ;     195 words ......Times 11-13-2002 Need to rationalise speed limits on the highways Byline: M.T.L. Edition...Letters Type: Letter THE decision on speed limits for the country should not be influenced...certain groups of drivers to increase speed limits is understandable, because our limits...

Mebane, N.C., considers lowering speed limits after consultant's report.

Times-News (Burlington, NC);  December 9, 2004 ;     329 words ......consider changing the citywide policy on speed limits in January. What started as a request...into a discussion about lowering the speed limits on all the streets in Mebane. Councilman...Philipps both said they wanted to drop speed limits in all residential areas to 30 mph...

Action call on speed limits; They could be varied says police chief.(News)

Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  May 21, 2004 ;     246 words ...Byline: DAVID BARRETT VARIABLE speed limits should be introduced on urban roads...technology could also allow police to set speed limits above 70mph when appropriate, said Meredydd...Bournemouth conference that variable speed limits could be used outside schools -for example...

Legislating speed limits.

Public Works;  December 1, 1998 ;     661 words ......practice for setting and enforcing speed limits on all types of roads. It does not recommend specific numeric speed limits, because road and traffic conditions...every state but Hawaii have raised speed limits on interstate highways and other...