Unfortunately, only local auth councillors tend to have any interest in lowering the limit.
Well at least since 1967 when the M1 was first given the temp 70mph limit.
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GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 5 weeks agoAnd expensive. Imagine the cost of changing the entire road network over to use metric.
“Minister, we have a cunning way to lower the speed limits, and go metric, at the same time…”
HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
blackn1ght@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
Not just the speed limits that need changing, basically any sign with a distance on it too.
Silic0n_Alph4@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
“Oh Bernard, you mustn’t confuse the minister with such matters! Speed is distance over time, and the civil service has long wanted to redefine time…”