Motorway speeds: Get used to driving at 40mph

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

You don't use the Grane road then?

What's that?

[d000hg]

FTFY

No because I am working. But I can take tea breaks in my garden.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

No because I am . But I can take tea breaks in my garden.

FTFY

[d000hg]

This is why you aren't allowed to WFH and have to drive on the motorway like a wage-slave.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

This is why you aren't allowed to WFH and have to drive on the motorway like a wage-slave.

Who said I wasn't allowed to WFH?

Sorry - I couldn't resist, every one of your posts was just asking for a FTFY.

[Batcher]

Didn't they run an experiment on the M25 a few years ago to make the maximum during rush hour 25mph? Instead of starting and stopping all the time, the traffic kept on the move and people found their journeys were quicker than normal.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

Didn't they run an experiment on the M25 a few years ago to make the maximum during rush hour 25mph? Instead of starting and stopping all the time, the traffic kept on the move and people found their journeys were quicker than normal.

yeah that 25mph will gradually come down as the car park known as the M25 becomes fuller.

[doodab]

What many people don't realise judging by the comments in that article (although it's quite well documented) is that dense fast moving traffic experiences chaotic shockwaves similar to a sonic boom. It travels in the opposite direction to the traffic and usually causes the flow to come to a halt. The point of reducing speed lmits is to prevent this happening, which reduces the overall journey time through a given busy stretch.

To put it simply, you just can't get that much traffic to flow at 70mph down that road. The above mentioned phenomena will prevent you from doing so.

[VectraMan]

What many people don't realise judging by the comments in that article (although it's quite well documented) is that dense fast moving traffic experiences chaotic shockwaves similar to a sonic boom. It travels in the opposite direction to the traffic and usually causes the flow to come to a halt. The point of reducing speed lmits is to prevent this happening, which reduces the overall journey time through a given busy stretch.

To put it simply, you just can't get that much traffic to flow at 70mph down that road. The above mentioned phenomena will prevent you from doing so.

Reduces overall journey time taken as an average over all the cars. It doesn't mean that an individual driver gets there faster; obviously for an individual driver the slower they go the longer it takes.

The whole raison d'etre of motorways is high speed travel. If you're going to start reducing them to 40mph, then what's the point? May as well take the train if you want to waste half your day travelling.

[NickFitz]

The chap explicitly states that he's referring to travelling "down the M6 into Birmingham" and "every weekday morning". To take a reference to a few miles of road a few hours a week, and convert it into "Motorists must get used to driving at 40mph on the motorway" is a bit of an over-generalisation, to say the least.