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Can roads have separate speedlimits in opposite directions?
DIR By: John Glacier
Date: April 6, 2024, 2:59 pm
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Can a single carriage way road have a say 40mph limit one way
and a 50mph limit coming the other way?
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Re: Can roads have separate speedlimits in opposite directions?
DIR By: ivanleo
Date: April 6, 2024, 3:57 pm
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> Can a single carriage way road have a say 40mph limit one way
and a 50mph limit coming the other way?
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I don't see how that could be enforceable, what happens if
someone does a u-turn?
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Re: Can roads have separate speedlimits in opposite directions?
DIR By: Southpaw82
Date: April 6, 2024, 4:04 pm
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Can they? Yes. The real question is why would you?
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Re: Can roads have separate speedlimits in opposite directions?
DIR By: tonys
Date: April 10, 2024, 4:03 pm
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An example where it would be helpful is road works, to slow
approaching traffic.
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Re: Can roads have separate speedlimits in opposite directions?
DIR By: ivanleo
Date: April 12, 2024, 3:09 am
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I still see signage as being an issue. There is no authorised
regulatory sign to tell someone that if they do a u-turn they
are subject to a different speed limit.
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Re: Can roads have separate speedlimits in opposite directions?
DIR By: tonys
Date: April 12, 2024, 5:24 am
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--- Quote from: cp8759 link ---
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> I still see signage as being an issue. There is no authorised
regulatory sign to tell someone that if they do a u-turn they
are subject to a different speed limit.
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Or visiting a property and going back the way thy came, which
could also happen on a dual carriageway. Normally there are
repeaters but between the U turn and the first repeater there'd
be nothing to indicate the limit.
However the same would apply to someone living their property
for the first time after the limit had been imposed. In fact
quite often temporary limits aren't even signed where roads,
even quite big ones, join within a temporary limit.
#Post#: 19571--------------------------------------------------
Re: Can roads have separate speedlimits in opposite directions?
DIR By: guest968
Date: April 12, 2024, 11:42 am
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--- Quote from: tonys link ---
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> In fact quite often temporary limits aren't even signed where
roads, even quite big ones, join within a temporary limit.
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I believe they are supposed to be, so if they aren't you'd have
a pretty sound defence if you got nabbed between the junction
and the first sign.
#Post#: 20418--------------------------------------------------
Re: Can roads have separate speedlimits in opposite directions?
DIR By: roythebus
Date: April 23, 2024, 1:48 pm
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There is a section of the A10 at Cheshunt where the northbound
limit is 40 and the southbound limit is 50, but that is dual
carriageway.
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Re: Can roads have separate speedlimits in opposite directions?
DIR By: The Rookie
Date: April 23, 2024, 2:11 pm
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I have this on a single carriageway road near me, NSL one way,
50mph the other.
The council here are singular numpties and I expect it’s just an
F up, but they still can’t tell me even which is the correct one
of the two limits!
(Noting they now have installed a system of street lighting at
one end which would otherwise change it but I can Guarentee
there is no order, there are no repeaters).
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Re: Can roads have separate speedlimits in opposite directions?
DIR By: Reentrant
Date: April 25, 2024, 7:20 am
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Several years ago there were long-term roadworks at the
Longbarrow roundabout on the A303 just west of Stonehenge.
It was temporary 40 for a mile or so approaching the roundabout
from either direction, but 50 as soon as you were past it. It's
(infamously) single-carriageway both east and west.
I've never seen permanent different limits on single carriageway
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