Sentences with phrase «speed limits»

In the publication, MPs call for a much bolder strategy to address the problem and recommend that local authorities be given more power to introduce 20mph speed limits, increased enforcement to tackle drink - driving and the creation of a road safety commission.

Three Republican state legislators are calling for legislation to allow local governments to alter speed limits without obtaining Albany's approval.

State Department of Transportation officials said Wednesday they've begun the process of adding new barriers to the outer lane of the parkway, while also lowering speed limits to 35 mph from its current 40 mph in an effort to increase safety on the stretch.

ALBANY — A bill to allow New York City to lower speed limits to 25 m.p.h. passed the Assembly Thursday night and is now poised to pass the Senate.

THE BRONX — Concrete barriers and reduced speed limits are among the safety measures being added to a dangerous stretch of the Bronx River Parkway where seven family members died in a car crash Sunday.

From your «logic», the existence of people that breaks speed limits is equivalent to the inexistence of such speed limits or the claim that the police does not enforce speed limits.

The White Paper also proposes the devolution of a few further powers such as the regulation of air weapons, setting the alcohol limit for drink driving and setting speed limits.

The system already works for schools, where the speed limits are extremely low and cars are expected to go about 10 miles per hour over a speed limit, give or take.

«We're not against driving a car, but a car needs to have seat belts, speed limits and cops on the road.»

In addition, the policy group calls for a review of speed limits to see whether they could be made more effective - for example, during the school run, cars should be limited to 20mph outside schools, but should be able to speed up at any other time.

You assume that if speed limits were 5 - 10 kph higher, the people who breaks these speed limits right now would not do the same.

To me this shows that most drivers (and therefore most voters) would welcome an increase in highway speed limits, to (say) 160 km / h which is the maximum speed most people drive on the Autobahn.

Speed limits generally work the way you describe: Many people drive at or below the speed limit.

Those sections that do not fit that have speed limits lower than 160 km / h (100 mph).

But for some reasons the speed limits stay the same, to the point where New York has a limit of merely 105 km / h.

They were designed for speed limits from 50 mph to 80 mph.

If technology is to be used to monitor and catch violations of the speed limits, it should be done in such a way that it applies equally to everyone (no cameras with film in one day a month).

State Senator Simcha Felder (Brooklyn) introduced a bill to raise speed limits on Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn, one of the main street in his district.

I think there should be a great deal of local democratic control over speed limits and the means of enforcing them.

It's counterintuitive but even on as local an issue as speed limits on a street, state government matters.

Motorway speed limits could increase from 70mph to 80mph in a move which has been criticised by road safety campaigners.

Bloomberg wants NYC drivers to slow down, and has created «slow zones» in more than a dozen neighborhoods, reducing speed limits from 30 to 20 mph, to force them to do so.

A larger road network with faster speed limits encourages urban sprawl by inducing people to move to suburbs more distant from their jobs, and, more generally, to be more likely to plan longer trips in their cars.

«These municipalities are run by residents who have first - hand knowledge of the problems or safety concerns surrounding their local roadways, and allowing them to determine the speed limits instead of the state will increase responsiveness to residents.»

It also says that TfL should review the speed limits on all its roads in line with its new Healthy Streets check and that the authority and its contractors should — when carrying out roadworks — check and resolve critical safety issues for pedestrians and cyclists.

Decisions around new road schemes have prioritised car use and inappropriately high speed limits have been all too common.»

A group of Republican state and county lawmakers on Tuesday called for the passage of a bill that would allow local governments to set speed limits.

For instance, Congress required states to reduce highway speed limits to 55 and enforce the lower limits or risk having funding withheld.

Perhaps, as I have always been keen on motorcars and driving, I would go back to the days before speed limits were imposed out of towns and look at those heroes in adventure and detective stories that drove a pre or post - Second World War Bentley or Alvis, with their magnifi cent long bonnets and separate headlights standing up on either side.

Decreased speed limits signs when in a school zone often say «when children are present.»

Kevlar or leather coats and suits, helmets, license laws, speed limits?

But how do we regain a sense of equilibrium in a modern world that's going well over our personal speed limits.

Think of the difference between posted speed limits alone or roads with lots of cops, traffic cameras and radar, etc..

The idea, though not popular, was understood easily as we explained how we get fined for breaking speed limits or jumping red lights (we kept the gory details of theft or murder crimes for another time).

It's not lit well at night and during the day they drive too fast (should post speed limits; yeh right we are in DR).

Except in sharp turns, at traffic circles, in cities (where Clark scrupulously respected speed limits; there are none on the open road) and when overtaking dawdlers, Clark's foot was all the way into the Elan.

Indeed, the FIS even has a rule that sets speed limits for downhills at 90 kph (55 mph) for men and 80 kph (49 mph) for women, but no one pays any attention to these restrictions.

It's easy to go on to pick out parallels: the drinking sprees; the 6 a.m. returns to the hotel room; the precipitous slumps in between the glory days; the brawling; the altercations with umpires; the ignored speed limits; the junked cars (Botham is maybe ahead here — he once wrecked two Saabs in one day on a racetrack).

His enthusiasm for flying is bounded by no speed limits.

Everything goes great for a few hours on these old state highways with their varied speed limits for a couple hours when the tail lights go out.

People responded well to the lowering of speed limits to 55 mph when they thought it might save scarce and expensive gasoline.

The government dictates all kinds of things including speed limits, rules against pollution of your water, air and food.

We create traffic signals, speed limits, food regulations, health inspections, and other restraints on our freedom in order to maintain values of health and safety.

RD, next you'll be posting that we shouldn't have speed limits on the highways, everyone can drive which ever way they choose on any lane given in which direction they choose.

Deaths from automobile accidents dropped 25 % over a period of months, presumably because of reduced traffic and lower speed limits.

I'll bet everyone of you come to a full stop at all stop signs and always obey the speed limits.

so the alcoholic quits only because of god, traveling faster than the speed limits set my man is due to the «fact» we are not listening to god?

The law of a country and a nation can vary and though the laws on a certain subject, say speed limits, may vary, none endorse speeding and different regulations to mitigate the problem can be considered... The sayings around sex vary but they provide a kind of speed limit.

Intresting, I believe in all states have regulations for what can and has been used as a dangerous weapon, altough not designed to be, the automobile We have age limits, proficiency standards (tests), regulation for safe use (speed limits, seat belts, air bags, etc.) and licences that can be revoked.

This helps you ensure that not only are your drivers driving within speed limits, but that they are also aware of their current speeds so they stay within the limits.