Motorways: Speed Limits

(asked on 2nd June 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he plans to remove variable speed limits from existing smart motorways.


Answered by
Richard Holden Portrait
Richard Holden
Shadow Secretary of State for Transport
This question was answered on 12th June 2023

Motorway speed limits benefit the economy by reducing congestion through smoothing, increasing motorway capacity and helping to prevent the significant economic cost of accidents. There are no plans to remove them.

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