Enjoy this collection of headlines/reports:
Ministers to consult on 80 mph motorway speed limit - BBC headline 29 September 2011
It is awfully difficult to get one's Chelsea Tractor past all those plebs in the slow lane, yah. I say, my old bus just won't go under 70, you know.
M4 hard shoulder plans criticised by road safety charity - BBC headline 10 May 2012
The government could be set to abandon plans to raise the motorway speed limit in England and Wales to 80 mph - BBC report 17 December 2012
Motorway speed limit may not rise from 70 mph to 80 mph - BBC headline 7 June 2013
So it took them six months to get round to announcing what had been leaked in December
60 mph speed limit proposal for stretch of M1 motorway - BBC headline 6 January 2014
So now the speed limit is going to go down. It is OK, it is not in our Thames valley. It will only apply to 'people' near Birmingham.
The Highways Agency is planning to remove the hard shoulder from more than 100 miles of motorway in order to ease congestion.
Critics say that removing the hard shoulder would be unsafe. BBC report 6 January 2014
So much for a 'listening government' (see 10 May 2012)
