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Re: "70" speed limit sign on motorway entry slip road

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On 04/07/2024 10:29 pm, NY wrote:

> On 01/07/2024 09:06, JNugent wrote:
>> On 23/06/2024 10:29 am, NY wrote:

>>> I presume the NSL signage relies on an implied 70 limit for cars on 
>>> all dual carriageways and motorways, and was done so the limit for 
>>> those roads can be changed at a stroke, without a lot of sign 
>>> changes, if it is ever necessary to impose a blanket lower limit.
>
>> Not quite.
>> The NSL sign originally meant that there was no speed limit at all (so 
>> nothing to change). That changed in 1965 under Barbara Castle.
> 
> I was meaning the modern (post-1965) NSL, which is finite, rather than 
> its old meaning of "de-restricted" ie "as far as your car will go".
> 
> Did the explicit "70" signs get removed when there was a blanket 50 
> limit imposed during a fuel crisis in the 1970s?

Not that I remember.

Of course, the temporary 50 limit applied to every road which already 
had a limit of more than 50. So all 60 and NSL signs would also have had 
to be covered (if covering them had been a policy, which I am fairly 
sure it wasn't).

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"70" speed limit sign on motorway entry slip road NY <me@privacy.net> - 2024-06-23 10:29 +0100
  Re: "70" speed limit sign on motorway entry slip road Nick Finnigan <nix@genie.co.uk> - 2024-06-24 11:12 +0100
    Re: "70" speed limit sign on motorway entry slip road NY <me@privacy.net> - 2024-06-24 16:59 +0100
  Re: "70" speed limit sign on motorway entry slip road Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2024-06-24 15:30 +0100
  Re: "70" speed limit sign on motorway entry slip road JNugent <JNugent73@mail.com> - 2024-07-01 09:06 +0100
    Re: "70" speed limit sign on motorway entry slip road NY <me@privacy.net> - 2024-07-04 22:29 +0100
      Re: "70" speed limit sign on motorway entry slip road JNugent <JNugent73@mail.com> - 2024-07-06 13:05 +0100

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