Too Many Speed Limits On One Road?

[Zacs-Master]

On a stretch of A road near where I live, the speed limit changes no less than 7 times in 2.5 miles. 40/50/40/50/60/40/60. Potentially distracting not to mention the cost of all the signs.

[ummmm]

Just daft...

[Zacs-Master]

And costly.

[Graham-W]

Is that near Trentham, Staffordshire. There's a stretch there which sounds as bad. It's hard to keep up with the changes.

[Canary42]

This excess of variety was used successfully in defence of a speeding fine on a similarly-restricted road in my area - the authorities then put a blanket 40mph on the whole road.

[Graham-W]

I'm sure traffic would flow more easily if the whole road was at 40 mph.

[Old_Geezer]

I'm sure there must be a good reason, maybe the expectation that most will stay at 60 so they can be used as a cash cow.

[Zacs-Master]

OG, I suspect you are correct.

[Zacs-Master]

We need to do something!

[sunny-dave]

You won't beat the Speed Stasi - bureaucratic hitlers in polyester suits.

Their mission in life is to reduce speed limits wherever/whenever possible - also cheating the law abiding motorist out of his hard earned money by imposing far too many ludicrously low limits and signing them as inadequately as possible.