I think if you want slower drivers, you have to narrow the roadways and/or add perceived obstacles. People tend to drive the speed at which they feel safest, regardless of what’s on the sign. So, if you make them feel less safe at speed, they’ll slow down without even complaining about how slow they’re “being forced” to go.
Speed limits should be set by road design. Slapping a 25 mph speed limit on a section of road doesn’t actually change how fast people drive on it, it just creates potential revenue.
Applying normal engineering practices where human lives are at stake, you build in a safety factor. Your design speed is 25 but it’s built to be safe to drive at 50. Drivers figure this out and do 50. Now you have no more safety factor.
If you can’t rely on signage, then you need to design roads that aren’t safe. There are some obvious ethical considerations with this plan.
UK has it with 60-70mph highways that resemble American city avenues. Much less room for error - oh and a roundabout every so often to switch things up. Between that and on/off ramps designed for golf carts, i think we could really learn the average
idiotdriver.Afaik there’s only 1 motorway in the UK with a roundabout and it’s at the end where it becomes a normal road again. Usually if there is a roundabout on a dual carriageway it’s because it’s connecting to a single carriage way that could be anything from a 60mph bypass road for a town to a 20mph residential street.
Whatever I’m referring to is the road that goes over the big bridge outside inverness
