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Originally Posted by kernow
Problem is that today's 3 hour cross country journey by car, would then take 5 hours. Road haulage deliveries would be even slower and for anyone doing daily long distance commuting, it would be hell! There would also be more accidents caused by tiredness and fatigue!
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Reducing the speed on congested roads actually reduces the transit times. That’s the principle behind the successful tidal and flow rate speed limits on the M25.
I know that when I drive from my home to London, a distance of around 120 miles, my journey time at sticking to a maximum of 50 mph is only about ten to fifteen minutes longer than when I’ve made the run doing seventy whenever I could yet my fuel consumption increases from as near to six gallons as makes no odds to close to 8 gallons when I go faster.
Nowhere near as tiring when sticking to a top speed of 50 either.
It really does make sense.