"Mrs Redboots" wrote in message
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Martin Underwood wrote to uk.transport.london on Sat, 19 Feb 2005:

Presumably there must be 30 signs to make the speed limit enforceable, but
they may not be very obvious.

I think so - I always do keep an eye out for such things when I'm in the
car (as a non-driver, it's easier for me to navigate & warn of cameras,
speed limits, etc) and I certainly never saw it.

I'd like to see much greater use of 300, 200, 100-yard countdown markers
in
advance of speed limits, especially where the change of speed limit is 20
or
more mph - a sort of "Morpeth rules" for cars. With advance warning of
limits (especially where the sign is round a corner or hidden by a hedge
until you're very close) you can plan ahead and simply lift off the power
to
slow down gently rather than having to brake - I always try to slow down
by
coming off the power if I can, but that's the advanced driver in me ;-)


I think most people who have been driving for any length of time do, no?

Actually no. Following behind cars, I very often see them brake where I
don't - not because I take the bend any faster but because I've planned
ahead. When I was a passenger with one driver recently I was surreptitiously
watching and his right foot was permanently on either the accelerator or the
brake - he never lifted off the power and just let the car slow down by
friction. Admittedly it was in an automatic and you get less engine braking
with them, but even so... I dread to think how quickly he goes through brake
pads :-(