SOMEONE’S totally lost the plot again. If there ever was one.
The latest brainstorm is a plan to reduce the speed limit in towns and cities by 30 per cent (Echo, May 29). Even a ground squirrel could work out that this is stupidity.
Reducing the speed limit by 30pc means increasing the number of vehicles required to carry the same amount of goods or passengers in a day by 30pc.
That will take the pollution caused by the extra vehicles up by 30pc. Add in the extra congestion, the extra fuel consumption, the extra wear and tear on the roads caused by the extra vehicles, and it doesn’t look good.
Admittedly, mortality on the roads is a prime mover in this proposal but the end result will be an increase of air pollution. It is worth thinking about.
Preferably from a distance and wearing a gas mask.
Colin Dent, Crook.
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