What do motorists think of idea to cut speeding?

“DOT statistics show speed was a contributory factor in less than 10% of accidents ( 5% of all accidents, 7% of fatal accidents) drivers not paying attention was the biggest followed by road design. Lowering speed limits doesn't necessarily reduce the number of accidents just their severity. If there was a serious attempt to reduce accidents looking at all factors rather than the easy stick up a speed camera option then I suspect most motorists would be so cynical about speed, sorry safety cameras.

The default option now for any of our traffic experts is to reduce traffic to a crawl on main arterial routes through inappropriately low speed limits, excessive use of traffic lights and narrowing two lanes to one. These same experts are then shocked when traffic moves from these main roads onto side streets to avoid the growing queues, so we then get traffic calming measures and the traffic moves to another route and more traffic calming is required on the new rat run.

Many towns and cities were designed with main through roads to allow for smooth traffic flow, these have over the years been reduced in capacity with areas marked off for parking, cycle lanes and bus lanes, a plethora of traffic lights and pedestrian crossings. Peaks Parkway was supposedly designed to smooth traffic flow into Grimsby and it is obvious this has failed. The succession of traffic lights where there are two lanes which merge quickly into one is as others have pointed out the main source of the problem encouraging a racing start from the lights especially where there are lorries or other slow moving vehicles.

Fit average cameras and the road will in all probability become far worse, the drivers who don't understand how they work will continue to race off and then participate in violent braking as they approach them. Those that don't really understand that you can actually do 30mph in a 30mph zone that is monitored by cameras so decide to do 20 - 25 mph just in case.

As for decent law abiding drivers very few of us are perfect, failure to make proper progress is actually an offence so 20mph in a 50mph zone with no other extenuating circumstances such as weather conditions is just as bad as speeding. Fog lights when it's raining, no lights in poor weather or at dusk or dawn, its more than just speed that causes accidents. There needs to be a wider approach to road safety.”

“If all roads had a speed limit of 10 m.p.h. there would be a reduction in accidents.
This would be unacceptable .
It is therefore a case of need.
Speed limits do not improve people's driving skills and as pedestrians are not at risk - What is the need?”

“Controlling the loonies who think they have a divine right to exceed the speed limit is a must. It's great news for those decent law abiding drivers who use Peaks Parkway and the same commonsense approach should be applied to the A180 and Scartho Road.

Time and time again we can observe local loonies accelerate hard to close a gap ahead of them and then have to break so as not to collide with a car travelling at the speed limit in front of them and then start their tailgating.

Controlling speed on the Laceby Bypass has been a magnificent safety success and the ohsoimportant law breaking speeding loonies are going to be made to FOOT OFF even more.

We want more speed cameras to make sure that the ohsoimportants FOOT OFF.

Ohsoimportants SPEED KILLS so SAVE LIVES and FOOT OFF.”